glioma
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Origin of glioma
From New Latin, dating back to 1865–70; see origin at glia, -oma
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The company said the deal will make it a leader in pediatric low-grade glioma, a brain tumor, and expand its pipeline for drugs targeting adult and pediatric cancers with high unmet needs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
She died in Cincinnati after battling glioma of the central nervous system, according to a notice posted on her CaringBridge page.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
After undergoing a CT scan and an MRI scan she was diagnosed with a right frontal lobe glioma and will have brain surgery at Salford Royal Hospital.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2024
Brain cancer is difficult to treat when it starts growing, and a prevalent type, known as a glioma, has a poor five-year survival rate.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
A sudden and serious aggravation of symptoms may result from hæmorrhage into a soft tumour, such as glioma.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
It is a part of a larger group of tumors called gliomas.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
The most serious tumors that people with NF1 get affect the optic nerve and are known as optic gliomas.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
Diffuse gliomas are malignant brain tumors that cannot be optimally examined by means of conventional MRI imaging.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
These studies are the first to investigate the effectiveness of the combination therapy in paediatric gliomas.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
Reported in Cell, the study interrogates the preferential spatial niches, dynamics, gene expression patterns and functional states of neutrophils in BrMs and gliomas.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
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