Sentences with phrase «brain tumor at»

With them, you could have a brain tumor at the time of the application, and they will still give you a level death benefit.

Hesse's sculpture definitely plays rough, and her death from a brain tumor at age thirty - four makes its rough edges that much more ominous and meaningful.

Grisham then explores an alternate future, where Paul is diagnosed with the same brain tumor at the same age, but in the year 2025, wh...

The story the wunderkind songstress who teamed with Marvin Gaye on a string on soulful hits in the 1960s before dying from a brain tumor at age 24.

In the 15 years since I was diagnosed with a brain tumor at age 24, I've had highs and lows, with two awake brain surgeries plus hundreds of...

To illustrate that point, they analyzed a series of 95 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of brain tumor at their department.

And then upright bassist Bob Crawford talks about the struggle and heartache they're going through right now: His child is currently battling a brain tumor at St. Jude's.

«He has been diagnosed with a brain tumor at forty - four, which would have been devastating enough if he had not already lost his identical twin brother to the same disease a few years ago.»

According to recent Bulletproof Radio (iTunes) podcast guest Kris Smith, MD, a top neurosurgeon who specializes in brain tumors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the downside of some aggressive cancer treatments is that they can cause lifelong side effects in survivors.

Not exact matches

Cochran died in 2005 at the age of 67 of an inoperable brain tumor, but he had made a lasting impression, quantifiable in popular culture.

Dr. José Baselga, chief medical officer and physician - in - chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, says it's organizations such as the Kamen Brain Tumor Foundation that will be instrumental in driving the cure.

«We can look at the genes that are abnormal in brain tumors [and] develop therapies to attack those genes.»

Taylor Hartsfield sang Journey and Phil Collins songs during his awake craniotomy at the University of Miami Brain Tumor Institute.

I may have been able to reconcile a loving God with her daughter's brain tumor, but at the moment she could not: If there was something wrong with her daughter, then there had to be a reason.

Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.

In particular, our pediatric radiation oncologists at Floating Hospital for Children offer special expertise in the management of brain tumors, including medulloblastoma, with a combination of post-operative radiotherapy and multi-agent chemotherapy.

Ronald P. Pozzi, 55, a computer consultant at IBM in Schaumburg, died of a brain tumor Tuesday, May 14, in his Buffalo Grove home.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to Brain Tumor Research Fund at Northwestern University School of Medicine, 312-503-8933.

Mr. Halloran, a colorful one - term councilman, tried to fight the charges, even claiming at one point that a brain tumor impaired his ability to reason properly.

However, Mr. Varghese has at the same time sought to persuade the judge to let Mr. Halloran mount an insanity defense because of the effects on his judgment from a benign brain tumor.

In December 2017, writing in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Yankeelov and collaborators at UT Austin and Technical University of Munich, showed that they can predict how brain tumors (gliomas) will grow and respond to X-ray radiation therapy with much greater accuracy than previous models.

Images show tumor cells in a mouse brain at different days.

Studies suggest that stem cells sustain deadly tumors in the brain — and that aiming at these insidious culprits could lead to a cure

Three separate groups have performed advanced sequencing on ependymomas, a tumor that occurs at the part of the brain called the posterior fossa, which is the back base of the brain including the cerebellum, pons and brainstem.

«Few drugs have the capacity to cross the tumor blood - brain barrier and specifically target tumor cells,» says principal investigator Balveen Kaur, PhD, associate professor of neurological surgery and chief of the Dardinger Laboratory of Neurosciences at the OSUCCC — James.

«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

Doctors might order a CT or MRI scan for a headache or migraine to put patients» minds at ease about fears that a malignant brain tumor, aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation or other issue might be causing their symptoms.

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.

But following the removal of the primary tumor, micrometastatic cells learn to communicate with cells in their new microenvironment in the brain — cells which are, at first, hostile to them.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cells.

Dr. Del Maestro adds, «Yong and colleagues at the University of Calgary have begun to unravel the complex interaction of the microglia with the brain tumor cells, resulting not only in furthering our understanding, but providing a new concept and drug which can now be immediately assessed in clinical trials.»

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.»

Produced by a technique called fiber tractography, the image helped doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital Center in Quebec avoid cutting vital circuitry during brain surgery: The reddest nerve fibers were those most likely to be severed by incisions to remove the 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.

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!)

Scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute have recently made discoveries about use of a new technology for imaging brain tumors in the operating room — a finding that could have important implications for identifying and locating invading cells at the edge of a brain tumor.

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.

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.

Neurosurgeon Mitchel Berger at U.C. San Francisco conducts hands - on «brain mapping» of language functions in advance of surgery to remove tumors.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

At first doctors thought Meltzer had a brain tumor.

Researchers studying the brain tumor type glioma often use a cell line called U87MG that was established at Uppsala University almost fifty years ago.

A team led by principal investigator Donald M. O'Rourke, MD, an associate professor of Neurosurgery at Penn, and Marcela Maus, MD, PhD, showed that CART - EGFRvIII cells had an acceptable safety profile, crossed the blood - brain barrier, infiltrated the tumor, and prompted an immune response, resulting in reduction of the EGFRvIII tumor antigen in GBM cells.

Deadly brain tumors called high - grade gliomas grow with the help of nerve activity in the cerebral cortex, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

«Carefully defining the molecular landscape of these tumor subtypes may guide us in pediatric precision medicine, to better treat children with brain tumors,» said Payal Jain, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

That may be great if you are using carbon nanotubes to deliver chemotherapy drugs to people with brain tumors, as cancer researchers in California (at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment center in Duarte in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena), hope to do.

«We showed that the presence of the maternal gut microbiota during late pregnancy blocked the passage of labeled antibodies from the circulation into the brain parenchyma of the growing fetus,» says first author Dr. Viorica Braniste at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet.

The cancer gene BRCA1, which keeps tumors in the breast and ovaries at bay by producing proteins that repair damaged DNA, may also regulate brain size.