November 2023

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May 2022 – Today marks the first day of Brain Cancer Awareness month. On this day Brain Cancer Canada grants $100,000 to the St. Michael’s Hospital program to acquire and develop genome technology helping brain cancer patients.

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November 2021 – New surgical cancer-detection device helps fuel research collaboration at Polytechnique Montréal.

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September 2021 – “The spectroscopy is used as a broad assessment of the entire composition of the blood sample, which contains over 20,000 molecules”.

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March 2021 – “In a first-ever study, Sunnybrook researchers have demonstrated that MRI-guided focused ultrasound technology can improve the detection of brain cancer biomarkers with the temporary opening of the blood-brain barrier to aid liquid biopsy.”

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January 2021 – “Researchers in Italy have performed a proof-of-concept study showing that a combination of three different optical spectroscopic techniques has potential to improve the in vivo detection and delineation of malignant brain tumours and to guide their surgical removal.”

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December 2020 – “The healing process that follows a brain injury – from trauma to infection and stroke – could spur tumour growth.”

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July 2020 – For the first time, researchers detected what they describe as a progenitor glioblastoma stem cell (GSC) — a cell type from which all other cancer cells develop – part of five main cancer cell types within each tumour.

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March 2020 – The University of Bristol (UK) is leading a project to develop an easy and affordable blood test kit that would have the ability to detect brain tumours. The project explores the use of fluorescent nanomaterials to assist in early diagnostics.

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November 2019

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October 2019 

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August 2019 

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March 2019

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