Glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor

A glioma is a slow-growing brain tumor. The majority of people treated for this cancer live for many years after diagnosis, and their life expectancy may have just gotten better. I'm Erin...

David Valle: Thank you, Greg and Bob, and it's a pleasure to be here. It's -- I've had the pleasure of a long collaboration with people at NHGRI. We recently actually have...

I called it the alien. To me, that's what it was - this tumor in my head that threatened to take everything away. But, the worst news of my life was followed by confidence and hope, knowing a...

My sister is very dependable. I always tell her you don't always have ‪to be the pillar. My sister is the pillar of our family. It was kind of scary just to see your pillar being weakened or...

From the biopsy, unfortunately, it showed up to be cancer, and grade 4 cancer at that, which is the worst. I remember that moment, they took me into that little room with Karen. And the doctor said,...

Mark Guyer: Welcome back to the afternoon session. Iím Mark Guyer. Iím the director of the Division of Extramural Research at NHGRI and Iím going to take over moderating this afternoon so that Eric...

>> Well cancer stem cells represent a whole new paradigm change in how we think about cancer. Historically we thought about cancer as each cancer cell has the potential of making two...

FINE: The mission of the neuro-oncology branch is really severalfold. First and foremost, it's to ensure that every patient with a brain tumor receives optimal standard of care, and we achieve...

Dan (patient): Nicole is my oldest, she’ll be 10 in August. And then the baby, Joshua is going to be three. And then Daniel is going to be seven. About four and a half years ago a migraine type...

Tumor treatment response can soon be measured with a new computer model. I'm Erin White and THIS is a dailyRx Minute. When forecasting the possible routes of hurricanes, computers and humans...