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[INFOGRAPHIC] Defeat GBM By The Numbers At the end of June, we published our 2017 Defeat GBM Research Collaborative Progress Report (PDF). Accompanying this comprehensive report on the impact of this flagship research program, were a blog recapping the cumulative progress being made – from discovery to drug screening – as well as a press release announcing the important results from the […] July 18, 2017

Defeat GBM Research Collaborative Progress Report: A Multitude of New Discoveries & A Push to Evaluate Potential New Drugs in Clinical Trials National Brain Tumor Society shares updates on the portfolio of progress being made through its subsidiary, Cure GBM, LLC, and its flagship program, the Defeat GBM Research Collaborative Today, we would like to provide a comprehensive update on the extensive discoveries and progress made thus far by our flagship research program, the Defeat GBM Research […] June 27, 2017

Defeat GBM-Funded Research Helps Reveal Another Astonishing Trick Brain Tumors Play Summary: A surprising, counter-intuitive discovery by Defeat GBM Research Collaborative-funded researchers opens up a potential new approach to slowing glioblastoma (GBM) growth We all learn during grade school math that when doing multiplication, “a negative times (x) a negative equals a positive.” Could this be true for glioblastoma tumor biology, too? A new study from […] May 12, 2017

Hiding in Plain Sight: Defeat GBM Research Collaborative Helps Produce Paradigm-Shifting Study Short Summary: Small fragments of DNA that are not part of chromosomes (where DNA is usually packaged in human cells) – which were thought to be inconsequential and extremely rare in human cancers – have been found in high-frequencies in brain tumors, but not normal cells. These circular stretches of “extrachromosomal” DNA were revealed to have […] February 8, 2017

2017 Crystal Ball: The Neuro-Oncology Field Offers Predictions & Hopes For Advances In The New Year In 2016, the neuro-oncology field made significant progress toward better treatments, and ultimately a cure, for brain tumors – from new research projects launching, to important novel scientific discoveries, as well as public policy and advocacy victories in Congress and at the White House. So what should the brain tumor community hope for and expect, now, in 2017 ? We reached out to some […] January 17, 2017