What does Ependymoma mean in English?

Treating a tumor in your spine is tricky, but there's a new treatment that doctors say is working wonders; KDKA's Dr. Maria Simbra reports.

Miriam Bornhorst, M.D., Children’s National Hospital, “Optical Genome Mapping reveals novel structural variants in pediatric brain tumors”

Mr Macarthur talks to ecancertv at Children with Cancer UK’s workshop on Drug Delivery in Paediatric Brain Tumours in London, UK.

He discusses his experience of intrathecal administration of chemotherapy to target brain tumours in children.

Getting treatment across the blood-brain barrier is one of the challenges when treating childhood brain cancers, he observes, and injecting chemotherapy into the cerebral spinal fluid is one possible way around this.

Although not a first-line approach, it is potentially suitable for brain tumours that have metastasised, with medulloblastomas and ependymoma the most common tumour types treated so far in Nottingham.

Ependymoma is form of brain cancer. Ependymoma Awareness Day is designed to increase public awareness of this rare tumor and the need for clinical studies to improve early diagnosis, standardize treatment and improve the health status of those living with this disease.

Ependymoma Awareness Day offers a rare opportunity to focus attention on this tumor which affects the brain and spine of all age groups-from infants to older adults. Ependymoma Awareness Day will culminate with a butterfly release that will be streamed on the internet to that supporters around the world can share in this event. The delicate and beautiful butterfly was chosen to represent ependymoma as it symbolizes rebirth and hope.

Here's a video of the full radiation therapy procedure that I'm currently receiving at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The video also shows (at the end) the control room and basement of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Care Center that's kinda become like a second home to me over the past few weeks. This is treatment #25 of 33 total that I'll receive.