As Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson works towards getting most of his 200 tattoos removed, a newly published study is suggesting that tattoo ink exposure may increase one’s risk of lymphoma and ...

Nicola Shaw, of Manchester, England, was 38 years old she learned that a tingling pain in her face was due to a meningioma tumor in her brain. Now she’s working to spread awareness for the disease and ...

John Johnson, a dad of two from Cleveland, Ohio, was diagnosed with stage 2 colorectal cancer at age 35 after dismissing blood in his stool as hemorrhoids and contributing the unusual symptom to ...

Treatment for glioma typically involves a combination of surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy — but the treatment path and combination can vary depending on several factors. New therapies, ...

Surgery is often the first step when doctors suspect a patient has glioma. It can help with diagnosis, prognosis, and is often used as the initial treatment. Surgeons try to remove as much of the ...

After surgery, your medical team will evaluate the results and determine if additional treatment is necessary. This decision is often made through a collaborative discussion known as a tumor board—a ...

Patients who live in more remote areas may run into issues accessing the expertise and cutting edge treatments that are available at major cancer centers. Fortunately, accommodations can often be made ...

It’s natural to experience feelings of anxiety, sadness, or uncertainty after any cancer diagnosis, but there are specific challenges brain tumor patients may face, such as neurological side effects ...

Typically, your medical team will take a week or so to prepare and plan for radiation. The prep work might involve scans and making a treatment schedule. Radiation therapy is typically administered in ...

Moving beyond what tumor cells look like under a microscope, doctors now use genetic “fingerprints” to diagnose glioma and better predict how a tumor will behave and which treatments might work best.

A patient’s IGHV mutation status is a key factor in CLL prognosis. Doctors looking for a patient’s IGHV mutation status are looking at the age of the cell that allowed CLL to grow. If it is a younger, ...

Gliomas vary greatly based on their size, location in the brain, grade, and other key factors. Grade is a categorization tool used to help doctors determine the best treatment path to recommend for ...