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Fundraising Gets Personal for Two-Time Meningioma Survivor
The First One: 2012 “It happened really, really quickly,” says Sharon Mottola of when she was first diagnosed with a meningioma brain tumor in 2012. Sharon, a registered nurse working at a North Carolina healthcare facility, had been experiencing chronic déjà vu for some time and decided to use her proximity to her primary care […]
A Missing Link to Glioblastoma Growth?
An enzyme that serves as a link between oncogenes and the lipids that make-up cells’ membranes may be an important new drug target to treat glioblastoma and other tumors Glioblastoma, like all cancers, develops and progresses as cells begin to multiply and grow out of control, forming a tumor. Mutations to a protein known as […]
NBTS Brain Tumor Clinical Trials Report – August 2019
Brain tumor clinical trials open around the country all the time, and it can be hard for patients and care partners to keep track of new opportunities to consider participation in leading-edge clinical research. This report, generated by the National Brain Tumor Society, provides a summary of clinical trials that have started or begun recruitment […]