Brain Cancer

Infections could contribute to adult brain tumors

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 14th, 2006

Infections could play a key role in triggering certain types of adult brain cancer, according to results from a new statistical analysis of the disease.

The international study, led by Richard McNally at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, was funded by Cancer Research UK, the Dutch Cancer Society, and the Christie Hospital Research Endowment Fund.

The researchers analyzed a database of adult brain tumors diagnosed in patients from the North Brabant province of the Netherlands between 1983 and 2001. They found clusters of cases of glioma tumors, which make up about half of all brain tumors, at different time intervals in different geographical...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-02-14)

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