Researchers Determine New Accomplice in Brain Tumors—and Catch Our Neurosurgeons’ Attention

Researchers Determine New Accomplice in Brain Tumors—and Catch Our Neurosurgeons’ Attention

Scientists are excited because in a recent study they found a brain tumor growing in a new way. Altered—or mutated—genes cause brain tumors, and scientists have a growing list of these genes. When a tumor occurs, they analyze the tumor to find those defective genes,...
Using a Team Approach to Research Glioblastoma Treatment

Using a Team Approach to Research Glioblastoma Treatment

Advances in medicine are very often the result of a group effort. This is certainly true of brain tumor research, where physicians and scientists in several specialties work together. Neurosurgeons from Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital,...