Sentences with phrase «against brain tumors»

The drugs were chosen because they were thought to have possible effects against brain tumors and were already used in humans or were being developed for human use.

In experiments in animals, researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School showed that adding rapamycin to an immunotherapy approach strengthened the immune response against brain tumor cells.

He fought a very hard battle against his brain tumor (glioblastoma multiforme) and finally succumbed to the effects of the treatment.

Not exact matches

Published in the February 27 issue of Cell, the study found that tumor cells that reach the brain — and successfully grow into new tumors — hug capillaries and express specific proteins that overcome the brain's natural defense against metastatic invasion.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

Doctors opened up her skull and discovered a slow - growing tumor pressing against her brain.

«While the failure of these drugs against brain metastasis has often been attributed to the blood brain barrier, some agents are small enough to penetrate into the brain,» says Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratories of Tumor Biology in the MGH Radiation Oncology Department, co-senior author of the report published in Science Translational Medicine.

The safe use of a stem - cell - based therapy against brain metastasis would require preventing the engineered cells from persisting within the brain, where they could affect normal tissue and possibly give rise to new tumors.

To see whether these new particles could be effective against tumors, Youn and his team first injected them into the tail veins of four mice with brain tumors.

The study conducted at SciLifeLab shows that temozolomide itself not only is cytotoxically active against glioblastoma tumors but also against other types of brain tumors, such as medulloblastoma and metastases from other primary tumors.

New research into CAR - T cell therapy has revealed crucial mechanisms that could help the immunotherapy technique, which is currently only effective against blood cancers, be adapted for the treatment of brain tumors and other forms of solid cancers.

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey neurosurgeon Simon Hanft, MD, and nurse Catherine Furnbach, RN, from the Brain and Spine Tumor Program at the Cancer Institute were honored in June by Voices Against Brain Cancer (VABC) during the group's «Join the Voices!»

That automation is a clear selling point for Matthew De Silva, whose company, Notable Labs, is trying to devise personalized treatments for brain cancer by testing combinations of thousands of Food and Drug Administration — approved drugs against each individual patient's tumor cells.

When administered in restricted amounts, which do not exceed the individual's total energy needs, the KD can also be therapeutic against malignant brain tumors in mice and humans.

CR can lower the prevalence of age - related loss of function and multiple diseases, including tumors, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, and protects against diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, sarcopenia, and neurodegeneration of certain brain regions in rhesus monkeys (31).

Only in the last half - hour do the usual Emmerich absurdities pile up: I laughed outright at the character who, past 65 and diagnosed with a massive brain tumor that will kill him within months, can not be stopped by a ferocious beating, being stabbed in the neck with a sharp implement, then being crushed against a wall by an SUV moving at a minimum of 30 mph.

Titled after the Hippocratic Oath Strange committed to during his surgical career, Strange fights against all odds to cure his beloved friend Wong of a terminal brain tumor.

Cushing's Disease can also lead to pituitary tumors, which can press against the brain, and cause even more neurological damage.

The 20 + person group joined together to support the fight against cancer and stand behind fellow co-workers Martina Gulevich (who battled a brain tumor) and Claudia Rivas (who battled Colon Cancer.)