Occupational and environmental exposures can put specific groups of people at higher risk of cancer, including firefighters. A new study by investigators at Mass General Brigham examines a cancer ...

In a study comparing the glioma tumors of firefighters and non-fighters, researchers found a mutational signature tied to exposure to haloalkanes, which are used in flame retardants, fire ...

Occupational and environmental exposures can put specific groups of people at higher risk of cancer, including firefighters.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ acquisition of Chimerix brings a drug that could become the first approved therapy for a rare and ...

While surgery is a treatment option for brain cancers, it’s usually risky for H3 K27M gliomas because these tumors affect critical parts of the brain and spinal cord. Meanwhile, radiation ...

What Are the Treatments for Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the canal in your spinal column that affects mostly people age 50 and older. Nothing can cure it, but there are ...

Gliomas are tumors that start in the glial (supportive) cells of the brain or spinal cord. They are often classified by grade from low-grade (grade I and II) to high-grade (grade III and IV), based on ...

Spinal stenosis surgery helps to reopen your spinal canal, the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows ...

Gliomas are a type of brain tumor that originate from glial cells. These cells are part of the brain and spinal cord, playing a crucial role in supporting and protecting neurons, the primary cells ...

Mia Love, the first Black female Republican elected to Congress, was first diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2022 but is no longer responding to treatment, according to her daughter.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes a specific type of damage, called demyelination, to the central nervous system, including the spinal cord. MS is a neurological disease. It causes the immune system ...