Purpose: Pilocytic astrocytomas (PA) in adult patients are rare and the efficacy of postoperative adjuvant treatments remains unclear. This study aims to investigate the survival outcome and ...

A dad who put his headaches down to parenting stress was told he had a brain tumour after a routine check-up at the opticians ...

A man from North Devon went for a routine eye test at his optician - only to find out he had a brain tumour. Sean Lowe began ...

Sean Lowe, 32, first started experiencing headaches in August 2024 but put them down to stress from work and the demands of ...

In 2022, a CT scan revealed Trevor had a tumor in his brain. Physicians rushed Trevor and his family to Children's Health, where he immediately received care for Pilocytic astrocytoma, a slow-growing ...

The reports of rare fusions in diffuse astrocytomas and other nonpilocytic lesions suggest that such molecular changes involving BRAF are very common in pilocytic astrocytomas, but are not ...

The tumour was a Pilocytic Astrocytoma. Sean said: "I am incredibly lucky I went for an eye test, and fortunate the optician noticed something that could have been easily missed by a GP.

A dad who brushed off his headaches as parenting stress was diagnosed with a brain tumour after a routine trip to the ...