Author: Helena Urquhart

The Wilderness Centre will host The Brain Tumour Charity’s Gloucestershire Family day next month as part of the charity’s commitment to supporting all those affected by this devastating disease.

HeadSmart were ‘all fired up’ after learning from Saturdays’ singer Rochelle Humes they had been voted the UK’s favourite National Lottery funded health project.

Researchers have barcoded cancer cells to learn more about growth patterns in hopes of developing more targeted treatments.

Researchers have developed ‘nanoswimmers’ that cross the blood brain barrier highly efficiently.

In a profoundly moving and honest account, Sarah Pullen describes the heart-breaking reality of life after her son Silas’s brain tumour diagnosis in her new book, A Mighty Boy.

In a new article for Nature Communication, scientists Gelareh Zadeh and Ken Aldape explain that radiation given during childhood cancer treatments causes DNA to rearrange. This rearrangement of DNA can then lead to menigiomas.

Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the US and the German Cancer Research Centre have discovered faulty genes underlying medulloblastoma brain tumours.

The United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride as an optical imaging agent for use in people affected by high grade gliomas.

The most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer has been identified as seven separate conditions each needing a different treatment, new research has revealed.