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We are working with Cancer Research UK, Macmillan Cancer Support and other cancer charities to make recommendations to Government on the subject of cancer registry data.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released an updated edition of the 2007 Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System.

Children with brain tumours will be among those offered a new genetic test that paves the way for young patients to receive personalised cancer treatment.

On 27 January, a brain tumour patient at Angers hospital wore a Virtual Reality (VR) headset during an awake craniotomy to allow neurosurgeons to ‘map’ his brain tumour as it was being removed.

“My own research lab studies the origins of cancer, particularly childhood brain tumours, and is seeking to develop completely new treatments of these devastating tumours.”

Sheffield Children’s hospital is leading the use of an intraoperative MRI scanner combined with new brain mapping software to identify if they have removed all of the tumour while the patient is still in theatre.

A major study has asked medical experts across the University of California, San Francisco, what they see as real developments in the coming year.

Scientists based at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility in Oxfordshire, have used a technique known as x-ray fluorescence to track microscopic trace metals and correctly identify malignant brain tumour cells.

The new blood test focuses on germ cell cancers that are rare but take root in cells that develop into sperm and eggs and may lead to malignant tumours in childhood.

In a report published yesterday in Cancer Cell journal, American researchers are focusing on gene mutations found in a third of brain gliomas.

Deadly viruses are being combined with a cancer cell killing virus in trials aimed at destroying glioma brain tumours.

From Call of Duty to Candy Crush, digital games are played by millions around the world. But could they offer more than entertainment?

A research team based in Catalonia, Spain, has pioneered a more accurate and less invasive liquid biopsy technique for brain tumours.

Australian researchers, coordinating with teams from Germany, have trialled genetically-modified algae loaded with chemotherapy drugs and found that they destroy 90% of cancer cells while leaving healthy ones intact.

Claiming to be a world’s first, Canadian scientists have used targeted ultrasound and microbubbles to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly into brain tumours.

The American Brain Tumour Association (ABTA), founded in 1973 and based in Chicago, has announced it is awarding $1million in new research grants.

Scientists have discovered a protein that is produced inside the blood vessels at the invasive edge of brain tumours.

Physicists from the University of Sydney are using synthetic nano-diamonds (molecular levels of size) to identify cancer cells during non-invasive MRI scans.

New imaging technology may allow neurosurgeons to distinguish between tumour tissue and normal brain tissue in real time

Developing a new drug is hugely expensive. The whole process – from initial laboratory tests through clinical trials to licensing for use in humans (if it gets that far) – is time-consuming and often frustrating.

An enhanced Australian rabbit virus may pave the way for future drug-virus treatments of GBM.

Earlier this summer year twelve students Amie, Aaron and Jemima spent some time learning about brain tumour research with Dr David Michod. Amie wrote about her experience:

Research published online today in the scientific journal Neuro-oncology has shown that some of the questionnaires completed by patients, parents and teachers relating to the behaviour, emotional wellbeing and quality of life of children affected by a brain tumour can flag reductions in IQ.

We welcome the publication of the ‘Top 10 Neuro-Oncology Uncertainties’, identified by the James Lind Alliance (JLA) as having highest importance to people with a brain tumour.