Brain tumors or glioblastomas are one of the most difficult cancer types to treat. These masses are malignant tumors that are made up of abnormal neuronal cells with a mix of various cell types ...

For the first time, scientists have detailed how a deadly brain cancer has a unique path of progression, aggressively eating away at the skull itself – and how drugs to impede this end up making it ...

It’s a bone-a fide discovery. An international team of researchers says it has found evidence of ancient Egyptians performing experimental treatments or medical explorations of human cancer more than ...

Scientists at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have shown for the first time that glioblastoma—the deadliest form of brain cancer—affects ...

Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or ...

The 4,000-year-old skull and mandible of an Egyptian man show signs of cancerous lesions and tool marks, according to a recent paper published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine. Those marks could ...

Lesions found in ancient skulls suggest that cancer could have been a medical issue long before our time. Ancient Egyptian skulls studied at the Duckworth Laboratory Collection at the University of ...

Artifacts demonstrate that ancient Egyptians had a solid understanding of medicine. The people of this civilization provided modern society with such medical bangers as the Edwin Smith papyrus from ...