Sentences with phrase «between brain tumors»

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This year alone, several studies and review articles have posited tentative links between radiation produced by cellular phones and the development of brain tumors.

«The scientific literature is unsettled right now about the association between mobile phones and brain tumors,» Deltour says.

The study looked for two of the most common types of brain tumors — gliomas, which are often malignant, and meningiomas, which are more often benign — in people ages 20 to 79 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1974 and 2003.

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.

Study results revealed previously unknown interplay between two key enzymes and a novel understanding of how brain cancer tumors form and spread, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

In a new International Journal of Cancer analysis, researchers found a link between maternal residential pesticide use — particularly insecticides — and the risk of childhood brain tumors.

While neither a drug that targets HER3 nor one that interferes with the interaction between HER2 and HER3 were able to slow the growth of brain metastases, combined treatment with both an anti-HER2 and an anti-HER3 drug significantly slowed tumor growth.

That genetic map led to key insights, such as the link between glioblastoma, the deadliest type of brain tumor, and a gene called BEX1.

«These findings will lead to future studies aimed at modulating or fine tuning the dynamic balance between YAP / TAZ and Gαs, and this may lead to new therapeutic strategies,» said Q. Richard Lu, PhD, co-lead investigator and scientific director of the Brain Tumor Center at Cincinnati Children's.

«We want to see how much variability there is in this phenomenon in the healthy human population, to evaluate if there is a correlation between retrotransposition frequency and brain tumor formation, and to see whether it is increased or reduced in Alzheimer's disease.»

Now her lab is particularly focused in describing the similarities and differences between the regulation of NSCs and brain tumor initiating cells.

Dangerous brain tumors hijack the brain's existing blood supply throughout their progression, by growing only within narrow potential spaces between and along the brain's thousands of small blood vessels, new research shows for the first time.

The most common types of cancer in children under the age of 15 are acute lymphocytic leukemia, brain tumors, neuroblastoma, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, while the most common types in adolescents between the ages of 15 - 19 are Hodgkin lymphoma, thyroid carcinoma, brain cancer, and testicular germ cell tumors.

Although vaccination induces an inflammatory response during pregnancy, the magnitude and the duration of response is much lower and shorter, respectively, for influenza vaccination than viral infection.27 Like infection, influenza vaccination during pregnancy has been reported to induce a transient increase in the levels of a number of proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor α, and C - reactive protein.27 - 30 Studies on mice found an association between high interleukin - 6 levels during pregnancy and abnormal behavior and brain structure.19 However, in epidemiological studies, associations between maternal cytokine levels and ASD have been mixed.

A meta - analysis published in the International Journal of Oncology, carried out by Swedish researchers, found significant associations between long - term cell phone use and brain tumors.

Brain tumors are supposed to represent about 1 to 2 % of the natural causes of death in dogs, so that is between 1 in 100 and 1 in 50 dogs.

Researchers have found that there are a number of similarities between canine and human brain tumors.