Michelle Tagliamonte, a 58-year-old mom from Ohio, was diagnosed with early-stage melanoma after noticing two lines on her right thumb during a manicure. She saw a doctor after realizing the lines ...

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 ...

A 65-year-old man, with poorly managed hypertension (high blood pressure), was diagnosed with a sinonasal glomangiopericytoma (GPC), a rare tumor found in the nasal cavity or paranasal sinuses, after ...

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, ...

Gliomas are graded on a scale of I to IV based on how cancer cells look under a microscope and how quickly they grow. Treatment plans vary according to the glioma’s grade and location in the brain, ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, glioams can recur, or return, after treatment, so it’s important to follow a careful follow-up protocol after treatment to monitor for any signs. This follow-up period is crucial ...

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 ...

For patients with glioma, genetic tests like next-generation sequencing (NGS) can reveal key mutations that help doctors determine the best treatment to recommend and help predict the tumor’s behavior ...

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.