Biologists from Boston College have identified KetoCal (a commercially available high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet designed to treat epilepsy in children) as a diet-based alternative method of treating brain cancer.
Ketocal has been found to significantly decrease the growth of brain tumors in laboratory mice.
According to Tom Seyfried, Boston College Biology Professor:
“KetoCal represents a novel alternative therapy for malignant brain cancer.
While the tumors did not vanish in the mice who received the strict KetoCal diet, they got significantly smaller and the animals lived significantly longer.
And compared to radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, KetoCal is a relatively inexpensive treatment option.”
KetoCal is manufactured by Nutricia North …read more

Pioneered by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center surgeons, an endoscopic brain surgery has been found to be potentially safer and in most cases more effective that conventional surgery in children with life-threatening tumors.
The Expanded Endonasal Approach (EEA) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that involves using narrow scopes and surgical tools inserted through the nasal passage to remove tumors as large as baseballs.
On the other hand, the traditional approach for removing benign or malignant tumors at the skull base has involved craniofacial approaches that require peeling away skin and soft tissue, as well as musculature over the facial elements – …read more

Gliomas are the scariest group of brain tumors, the most common type of which is the most aggressive.
Malignant gliomas are least affected by chemotherapy and radiation. Patients only survive a year after diagnosis.
Shedding light into this seeming hopeless, fatal condition, Lund University (Sweden) research suggests that stem cells from the brain can be developed to treat gliomas.
Using the following theories:

Neural stem cells have been shown to have the ability to recognize signals from tumor cells in the brain and migrate there.
If stem cells are injected into a part of the brain in laboratory animals with a glioma in another part …read more