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• team brainstrust 2009

  Over the Summer we quietly rolled team brainstrust from a dark corner of the brain cave. team brainstrust was to become a home for people that love a sport, and have a charity event on the horizon that they're training for, like a marathon, or a mammoth bike ride.
  
  

  
  
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  Category: Fundraising News | Published: 22 December 2009

• AND THE TEAFEST WINNERS ARE...

  Remember Teafest? On the 16th November, we asked you all to celebrate TEA! The day went really well, with all sorts of tea related hi-jinx. We had our busiest day on the brainstrust website yet, and you raised loads of money to boot (just shy of...

  
  
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  Category: Charity News | Published: 17 December 2009

• Intraoperative MRI scanning reaches Alder Hey Hospital

  Alder Hey Hospital unveil £3million brain tumour MRI scanner - Weyhey!
   

  Alder Hey hospital today unveiled a multi-million pound scanner that is the first of its kind in Europe. The MRI scanner will enable medics to scan in the operating theatre during surgery. Surgeons will be able to completely remove brain tumours from children and significantly improve their chances of surviving. The scanner is the result of a £3m donation from the Barclay Foundation - the largest single donation every received by the Trust.
  

  
  
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  Category: Charity News | Published: 16 December 2009

• Are mobiles safe? Confused? We are.

  Whether mobiles phones cause brain cancer has been a subject of ongoing debate (check out our recent blog post on the subject), but a new study is suggesting that they don't.

  
  A 30-year examination of the incidence of brain tumours in Scandinavia found no substantial change in prevalence even after cell phone use became widespread, according to the report in the Dec. 3 online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer...
  

  
  
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  Category: Research News | Published: 9 December 2009

• What an amazing man.

  COLIN DOUGLAS-SMITH

  DOCTOR, OLYMPIC ROWER

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  Category: Charity News | Published: 4 December 2009

• Clue to growth of most common form of brain cancer?

  Genetic clue to glioma brain cancer growth.
  
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  A BBC article suggests that scientists have pinpointed a mutated gene as key to the development of some types of glioma brain tumour. But what are the implications for the UK brain cancer patient?

  
  
  

  The mutation of the gene leads to hugely increased levels of a chemical in the brain, which seems to...
  
  

  
  
  
  
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  Category: Research News | Published: 23 November 2009

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