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A Missing Link to Glioblastoma Growth? An enzyme that serves as a link between oncogenes and the lipids that make-up cells’ membranes may be an important new drug target to treat glioblastoma and other tumors Glioblastoma, like all cancers, develops and progresses as cells begin to multiply and grow out of control, forming a tumor.  Mutations to a protein known as […] August 6, 2019

Brain Tumor Patients Inspire Research Toward Better Treatment Patients are major motivators for physician-scientist Dr. Elizabeth B. Claus. They and their caregivers share their lives with her, get her up to speed on their favorite Boston sports teams, and, at the same time, ask the important questions that help generate new research ideas. Dr. Claus’s research focuses on cancer and genetic epidemiology, with […] July 1, 2019

Conversation Starters: Lisa O’Leary and Adam Hayden Discuss Their New Virtual Support Forum It’s hard to imagine there is anyone more committed to the brain tumor community than Adam Hayden or Lisa O’Leary. If you read this blog, follow social media conversations about brain tumors (#BTSM), attend Head to the Hill, or read cancer-focused publications, you’re likely already familiar with their names. They tweet; they post on Facebook […] June 24, 2019

Bay Area Brain Tumor Walk & UCSF: Celebrating 25 Years of Collaboration Last July, the National Brain Tumor Society marked the 10-year anniversary of the 2008 merger that brought together its legacy organizations — The Brain Tumor Society (TBTS) and the National Brain Tumor Foundation (NBTF) — and created NBTS as it stands today. And on Sunday, June 23, 2019, at Crissy Field in San Francisco, NBTS […] June 6, 2019

Guest Blog: My Son Has Brain Cancer My son has brain cancer. And while the rest of the world sees a kind, smart, always-smiling, makes-you-laugh-so-hard-wine-shoots-out-of-your-nose 30-year-old man, I see something else. I see the baby who smelled like warm buttered toast when he was curled up in my arms those first few months of his life. I see the toddler who carried […] May 13, 2019