Sentences with phrase «brain tumor»

Being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor is devastating news for patients and their loved ones.

This is critical if we are to develop new treatments to prevent epilepsy from developing after a head injury, stroke, or brain tumor.»

«First drug target identified for children with rare type of brain tumor.»

In the United States, the ABI is approved for use only in patients 12 years or older with neurofibromatosis type II, an inherited disease that causes a non-malignant brain tumor on the hearing nerve, but it has shown limited effectiveness in adults.

We've also found that when these drugs are used in combinations, they don't reach high enough concentrations within the brain tumor to be effective.

Using data from a large public brain tumor database called REMBRANDT, the researchers confirmed that patients with lower levels of SND1 survived longer than those with elevated SND1 expression.

At first doctors thought Meltzer had a brain tumor.

Pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) is a primarily pediatric brain tumor caused mainly by mutations in the BRAF gene.

«Treatment as it stands now is not based on the molecular abnormalities that drive brain tumor formation,» Miller said.

With an annual incidence of approximately five cases per 100,000 persons, gliomas are the most frequently occurring brain tumor in adults.

«Once a patient has brain tumor surgery, we could use this technique to see if the tumor relapses,» Berry said.

Ringer's lactate solution (Lactec) was irradiated with plasma for 3 - 5 minutes, after which it demonstrated anti-tumor effects on brain tumor cells.

Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have revealed new insight into how the most deadly pediatric brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), may develop.

Shah next plans to rationally combine the toxin - secreting stem cells with a number of different therapeutic stem cells developed by his team to further enhance their positive results in mouse models of glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in human adults.

Encapsulated toxin - producing stem cells (in blue) help kill brain tumor cells in the tumor resection cavity (in green).

Their findings, published in Nature Medicine, bring new hope to children with this devastating brain tumor.

The reason she came in today is because she's never experienced this before and is concerned that she may have a brain tumor after googling her symptoms online.

DIPG is the most deadly brain tumor in children and currently there are no approved drugs for treating it.

After reassuring Eileen that eye twitching due to a brain tumor is quite uncommon, I go on to take her history.

Second, we believe the vaccine may be particularly beneficial for a group of patients with the HLA - A2 type, which suggests that as we move forward, there may be advantages in targeting this population,» said John Yu, MD, vice chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, director of surgical neuro - oncology, medical director of the Brain Tumor Center and neurosurgical director of the Gamma Knife Program at Cedars - Sinai.

Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary brain tumor and leads to death in patients by invading the brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move through normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.

The uncontrolled bleeding that often followed removal of a brain tumor had been a major obstacle to successful neurosurgery.

Dendritic cells are too large to pass through the blood - brain barrier, which is one reason they have to be cultured with brain tumor cells outside the body, then injected back into the patient's skin as a vaccine.

«We've discovered that calcium - dependent potassium channels are the gateways to brain tumor capillaries and to the tumor itself, and we've found agents that will keep those channels open much longer than RMP - 7,» Black says.

While the patient eventually relapsed and died more than a year after CAR T - cell therapy, the brain tumor never recurred.

Medulloblastoma is the most common brain tumor in children, but is relatively rare in adults.

The cells in such a brain tumor can display very different characteristics, such as varying cell size or number of cell nuclei.

Baliga's group is also mapping networks in patients with glioblastoma, a particularly deadly type of brain tumor.

Preul and the team came to their results by using the confocal laser endomicroscope on 74 brain tumor patients.

Then again, the Web is also making us sicker, or at least making us feel that way: A 2008 study by Microsoft Research showed that Internet searchers tend to focus on only the top few results, typically highlighting rarer, more serious diagnoses of common ailments such as headache (brain tumor!)

As reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in June, the vaccine, together with radiation and chemotherapy, prevented the brain tumor from reemerging after surgery for 12 months as compared with the typical six to seven months with no vaccine.

In removing a brain tumor, they'll know better how to avoid damaging the storage area for a patient's native language.

It also features prominently in pediatric cancers such as medulloblastoma, a rare brain tumor.

Acoustic neuroma is a rare benign tumor involving the hearing and balance nerve that can cause severe hearing loss, dizziness, or vertigo, affecting fewer than 4 out of every 100,000 people, according to the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States.

His autopsy suggests one troubling explanation: Charles Whitman had a brain tumor pressing on his amygdala, a region of the brain crucial for emotion and behavioral control.

In the «diminished responsibility» (DR) condition, mitigating circumstances were present that reduced John's responsibility; imagine that John committed the same crime, but suffered from a brain tumor.

An international team of researchers has identified eight additional types of cancer linked to excess weight and obesity: stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, ovary, meningioma (a type of brain tumor), thyroid cancer and the blood cancer multiple myeloma.

Imagine you are serving on a jury: the defendant is charged with murder, but he also suffers from a brain tumor that causes erratic behavior.

So, should you punish John for the murder, despite his brain tumor?

If we can boost the immune system and allow microglia to do their job and control brain tumor stem cells, it would be like removing the seed from the soil — stopping the tumor growth before it starts to get out of control.»

The researchers took this discovery and, in an animal model, identified a drug that is able to re-activate those immune cells and reduce brain tumor growth, thereby increasing the lifespan of mice two to three times.

«Although the intentions are laudable,» Dr. Hawasli and coauthors write, «these guidelines are inconsistent with the neurosurgeon's experience with patients with brain tumor.»

In 11 patients, headache was the only symptom of brain tumor.

They cross the blood - brain / blood - tumor barrier, and accumulate within brain tumor sites, where they target oncogenes, regulate cell growth and differentiation, reduce tumor burden and prolong survival in our mouse models.»

The finding has already garnered attention from researchers across Canada, including internationally recognized brain tumor scientist and neurosurgeon Dr. James Rutka, Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto and Dr. Rolando Del Maestro, William Feindel Professor Emeritus in Neuro - Oncology, McGill University.

While there have been improvements in the current standard treatments, patients with glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and aggressive form of brain tumor, still suffer from a median survival rate of only 14.6 months and 5 - year overall survival rates of less than 10 %.

Engineered human immune cells can vanquish a deadly pediatric brain tumor in a mouse model, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated.

The authors conclude, «Unvalidated guidelines to prevent neuroimaging in patients with headaches may reduce the perceived global economic burden at the expense of medical errors, delayed diagnoses, and inferior outcomes for patients with brain tumor.»

Glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in adults, has no effective long - term treatment and on average, patients live for 12 to 15 months after diagnosis, according to the National Cancer Institute.

«And in this study, we have formally demonstrated for the first time that these cells are compromised in living brain tumor patients.»