Despite the benefits of surgery and radiotherapy, certain tumor types, such as sarcomas and chordomas, demonstrate resistance to conventional radiation therapy. In these cases, more advanced ...

Pritumumab is under clinical development by Nascent Biotech and currently in Phase I for Glioma. According to GlobalData, Phase I drugs for Glioma have an 81% phase transition success rate (PTSR) ...

Chordomas are malignant and potentially life threatening tumors that develop in the spine or the base of the skull. Podliska has been traveling back and forth to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester ...

Spinal tumors in children are very rare. They can be malignant (cancerous) or benign (non cancerous). As spine tumors grow, they can put pressure on the spinal cord, resulting in neurologic symptoms.

About 1%-4% of primary bone tumors are chordomas. A little over a third of cases start in the base of your spine (sacrum) or the base of your skull. Slightly less than a third of cases start in ...

Neurosurgeon Daniel Lubelski, director of spinal tumor surgery, discusses the types of spinal tumors and treatment options currently available.

Connie Campbell was 11 years old when she discovered she had a type of brain tumor called medulloblastoma [a rare primary central nervous system tumor] just days after going on rollercoaster prompted ...