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ABTA PARTNERS WITH THE FDA AND BRAIN TUMOR COMMUNITY TO EVALUATE AND ADVANCE CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF BRAIN METASTASES TREATMENTS Approximately 200,000 cancer patients are diagnosed with brain metastases every year.
KIM LEARY: FULL-TIME ONCOLOGY NURSE COPES WITH LOW GRADE GLIOMA After Kim Leary returned to nursing following treatment from a grade II astrocytoma, there was a time when she couldn’t
FOUR NEW GRANTS TO SUPPORT IMMUNOTHERAPY RESEARCH The Brain Tumor Funders Collaborative (BTFC) is a group of funders of brain tumor research, including the American Brain Tumor Association. The group
The American Brain Tumor Association has awarded the 2018 Lucien Rubinstein Award to Yekaterina (Katie) Shpanskaya for her project, “Radiomic Discovery of Novel Prognostic Imaging Biomarkers in Medulloblastoma.” Katie is a
Matthew Erickson was diagnosed with a high grade glioma during an ultrasound before birth, but he has defied the odds by his survival. Yet that survival has not been easy; he’s had 11 brain
#GivingTuesday is Tomorrow This #GivingTuesday, the American Brain Tumor Association wants you to join us and the rest of the brain tumor community to put our brains together to raise funds
The American Brain Tumor Association is accepting Letter of Intent Applications for Research Collaboration Grants, Discovery Grants, and Basic Research Fellowships through November 14, 2018. All recipients of these grants
“After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, Sabine Schwab was looking for a new “purpose in life.” She found this as a volunteer and advocate for the brain tumor cause.
Glioblastoma – also referred to as glioblastoma multiforme – is a type of malignant brain tumor that forms from star-shaped glial cells called astrocytes. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of
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