Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago, used self-reported data on medically diagnosed allergies and antihistamine use for 419 patents with glioma and 612 cancer-free patients from Duke University and NorthShore University HealthSystem. Controls had no history of brain tumors or any cancers, and did not have a history of neurodegenerative disease. “Other studies have [...]
The results of the new study are available online in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology. The researchers reported that more than half of the animals that received the nanoshell treatment for glioma tumors had no signs of cancer more than three months after treatment. “This first round of in vivo animal tests suggests that photothermal therapy with nanoshells may one [...]
“Malignant glioma appears to be at least two large subclasses of diseases — one that involves mutations in the IDH1 and IDH2 genes and one that doesn’t,” said Hai Yan, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor in the Duke Department of Pathology who led a collaborative group of researchers to conduct the study. “The IDH mutation can [...]