Glioblastoma

Türkiye's Nobel laureate in chemistry, Aziz Sancar, has conducted a study on a new method in the treatment of brain tumors that can be applied without damaging nerve cells.

"We carried out research on the fact that the EdU molecule activates the repair mechanism in intact DNA as if it was damaged," Sancar told daily Cumhuriyet.

The survival rates for glioblastoma are among the lowest of any cancer, with less than 5% of patients surviving five years after diagnosis

U.S. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the maverick 2008 Republican presidential nominee, has been diagnosed with brain cancer, his office announced on July 19.

US Republican Senator John McCain has a malignant tumor in the brain, reported by the office and his family, quoted by Reuters and Associated Press.

John McCain

Arizona Senator John McCain has brain cancer, according to the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Tests revealed a malignant tumor in McCain's skull following a surgery to remove a blood clot above McCain's left eye that took place last week.