A comprehensive guide to the messy, frustrating science of cellphones and health

With 5G networks coming, understanding the health effects of radio-frequency radiation is more urgent than ever.

 Can this new discovery help us to eliminate brain cancer?

In a study — the results of which are now published in PNAS — the scientists were able to identify the mechanism through which glioma stem cells avoid cell death and how to disrupt it.

 How to Tell the Difference Between a Bad Headache and a Brain Tumor

“Headache is not a common feature of a brain tumor,” says Martin Allen Samuels, director of the program in interdisciplinary neuroscience at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “That’s the most common misconception. Brain tumors produce neurological deficits such as changes in cognitive function, thinking abilities, language mistakes, changes in behavior. Actually, a headache is a very minor feature of brain tumors.”

 Understanding glioblastoma, the most common—and lethal—form of brain cancer

Is there hope for future patients? With more research, perhaps.

 When it comes to brain tumors, a patient’s sex matters

While there is a great interest in developing more personalized approaches to cancer treatment, a patient’s sex, a key feature of personalization, has not yet been incorporated into this paradigm. We found that in female patients, radiation and chemotherapy treatment slowed tumor proliferation, but this was not the case for male patients. Male tumors continued to grow at the same rate, unhindered by these treatments

 Why It's So Hard to Treat the Brain Cancer That Killed John McCain—And What the Future Could Hold

Just why is the prognosis so dire? A lot of it has to do with just how aggressive this specific kind of tumor is, and the limitation of buzzsaw approaches such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.

5 Facts About Brain Cancer

Brain tumors can occur in both children and adults. Such tumors are the second most common form of cancer in childhood, after leukemia, according to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In adults, meningiomas and gliomas (the latter of which form from a type of brain cell called glial cells) are the most common brain tumors in adults, according to the National Institutes of Health.

5G smartphones cause cancer; Big Wireless doesn’t want you to know

*If smartphones cause cancer (and who knows, maybe they do, why not) then it’s even more likely that electric blankets, high-tension lines, microwave ovens and even household electrical wiring cause even more cancer. Plus, there must be thousands of other things that cause far more cancer than 5G smartphones, as otherwise we’d be seeing a colossal mortality wave of men and women with brain tumors and most likely ear tumors.

An Unlikely Weapon Against Aggressive Brain Cancer: The Zika Virus

A new study suggests that the Zika virus, known for causing brain defects in fetuses, could eventually be used to treat brain cancer by targeting and killing cancerous cells in the brain. Glioblastoma is the most common form of brain cancer and it kills most patients within two years of diagnosis.

Are Brain Cancer Rates Increasing, And Do Changes Relate To Cell Phone Use?

Since the early 1990s the possibility that exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation from wireless communications devices may be causing an increase in brain cancer has become a public concern, and this possibility was given credence in 2011 when the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization, classified cell phone RF energy as a “possible carcinogen.”

Brain Cancer Made Me A Better Leader

It was the first day in our new office, and I was about to take all of my team leads out to lunch to celebrate the occasion. The last thing I remember is standing up to leave. I woke up a day later in the hospital, very disoriented, with a tube down my throat.

Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer or Not?

Senator John McCain’s glioblastoma diagnosis revives a longstanding debate over the safety of wireless technology.

Mobile Phone Use and Cancer: Searching for Answers

Let’s hope that science comes up with the answer soon. In the meantime, it’s up to us to make the decisions concerning mobile phone use for ourselves and our families.

My husband died of brain cancer in his 30s. Thanks to Obamacare, it didn't bankrupt us.

Aaron seemed fine, but the doctors weren’t so convinced, and soon I was pushing him in a wheelchair down to an MRI machine, where doctors took pictures of Aaron’s brain and I took pictures of him in an MRI machine for Instagram. The results were some mediocre social media content and a giant brain tumor that needed to come out immediately. The brain tumor was stage IV cancer. It was 2011, a year after the Affordable Care Act passed. Three years later, Aaron died in my arms of brain cancer at age 35, leaving me a widowed mother to our young son, and you know what I think? I think we were lucky.

She Survived a Brain Tumor at Age 4. It Was Just the Start of Her Fight.

By the time Allia Villa underwent emergency surgery, an aggressive brain tumor had paralyzed the right side of her body. She was 4 years old.

Survival of the fittest: how brain tumours adapt through complex ecosystems

Despite advances in medical technology and a constantly evolving understanding of the mechanisms of cancer progression, researchers and clinicians are faced with a litany of challenges along the road to finding a cure for the most aggressive forms of cancer. This is particularly true of glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and most aggressive form of human brain cancer. Glioblastoma is universally fatal.

The Brain Cancer That Keeps Killing Baseball Players

Researchers who have examined the baseball cases for years say there is insufficient evidence to determine whether they represent anything more than coincidence. Possible cancer clusters are notoriously hard to prove. Most of the time, upon rigorous examination, no cause can be identified and the cases are considered random.