Sentences with phrase «brain tumor disease»

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: June 12, 2008 - Suzy Esstman's initial encounter with her brain tumor disease was less swift and dramatic than Sen. Kennedy's.

Not exact matches

«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.»

First hand knowledge of mental illness shows you that ill people have the capacity to live good lives, unfortunately for them they have a mental disease like a tumor invading their brain... what you don't seem to understand is anything is a weapon.

When you eventually get a serious disease like cancer or a brain tumor or an arthritic hip (because you will — we're all just temporarily healthy) let us know how that «reversible» thing works out for you.

It can result from certain medications, hypothyroidism, kidney disease, breast stimulation, pregnancy, a non-cancerous pituitary tumor in the brain, or another cause.

«We refer to this as the battle for the brain, in which early on in the disease, the microglia are trying to destroy the brain tumor initiating cells,» says Yong.

17 Epilepsy can be hereditary or caused by brain damage, infectious disease, or tumors.

Called craniotomy, this skull - cutting technique is still used today during brain surgery to treat neurological diseases, injuries, tumors, and blood clots.

Cancers that can have a high risk of infertility, depending on the treatment, are certain leukemias, Hodgkin's disease, brain tumors and bone cancer.

An advantage of small - molecule PPF — which has been previously used in clinical trials in an attempt to treat Alzheimer's disease and dementia — is that it can penetrate the blood - brain barrier and reach the tumor.

A molecule that helps cells stick together is significantly over-produced in two very different diseases — rheumatoid arthritis and a variety of cancers, including breast and brain tumors, concludes a new study.

People were reporting it in brain tumors, in Alzheimer's disease, in multiple sclerosis.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

That is why researchers more often rely on faster - developing indicators of (apparently) improved health: tumor shrinkage in cancer, lowered blood - sugar levels in diabetes, reduced brain plaque in Alzheimer's, lowered bad cholesterol or elevated good cholesterol in heart disease.

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.

Hypopituitarism can be caused by tumors, genetic defects, brain trauma, immune and infectious diseases, or radiation therapy.

«While we need to better understand how these abnormally regulated metabolites activate oncogenic proteins, our intriguing discovery suggests novel therapeutic targets for this disease,» says principal investigator and study leader Arnab Chakravarti, MD, chair and professor of Radiation Oncology and co-director of the Brain Tumor Program at the OSUCCC — James.

«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.»

UCLA Researchers are dedicated to understanding the mysteries of how the brain develops and works, what goes wrong in brain diseases, and developing effective new therapies to treat diseases from brain tumors, depression and Alzheimer's disease.

We offer trials for childhood brain tumors, solid tumors, hematological malignancies, infectious diseases, and hematology, including Phase I / II clinical trials.

The Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program is expanding the use of this technique for patients with solid tumors including neuroblastoma and brain tumors; a variety of high - risk hematologic diseases, such as thalassemia major and transfusion - dependent sickle cell disease; and other nonmalignant diseases.

Modulating ECM assembly to alter tumor vascular barrier function Weilan Ye, Genentech Lymphangiogenesis and lymphatic endothelial barrier as targets in regenerative medicine Giorgia Jurisic, Novartis Wnt / beta - catenin signaling as a therapeutic target for blood - brain barrier repair in neurological disorders Dritan Agalliu, Columbia University Somatic mutations in hematopoietic cells contribute to cardiovascular disease: New mechanisms, new targets Kenneth Walsh, Boston University

The ability of the tumor cells to metastasize locally within the brain is a significant clinical problem, which causes the disease to recur even after the original tumor is surgically removed.

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The center will focus on multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer's disease, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), Parkinson's disease and brain tumors.

Aetna considers navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation experimental and investigational for motor function mapping and / or treatment planning of neurological diseases / disorders (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, epilepsy, and resection of brain tumors) because its value and effectiveness has not been established.

These interests grew from studies of paraneoplastic neurologic disorders (PNDs), a group of diseases thought to arise when tumors — typically breast, ovarian, or lung cancers — start making proteins normally only made by the brain.

«We are now working to understand how this newly recognized source of DNA damage might contribute to tumor development or the age - related DNA damage in the brain that is associated with neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease,» said co-corresponding author Peter McKinnon, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Genetics.

He was introduced to radiopharmaceutical development as a postdoctoral research associate and then as a staff scientist in the department of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine, where he developed several preclinical imaging agents to study brain tumors, atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.

In addition to being an anti-inflammatory, studies have shown that this magical ingredient is a strong antioxidant, can improve brain function, increase longevity, lower your risk of heart disease, improve arthritis, and may even prevent cancerous tumors!

The video below shows how sugar not only CAUSES heart disease and diabetes, but also FEEDS tumors and is as addictive as Cocaine to your brain

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).

If you have a pre-existing tumor or Human Growth Hormone deficiency due to a brain lesion, you should be examined routinely for progression or recurrence of the underlying disease process while receiving Human Growth Hormone.

In the film, we see people recover from numerous diseases and disorders including digestive problems, allergies, skin conditions, cancer and tumors, obesity, brain fog, infertility, asthma and autism.

Philadelphia, PA About Blog Read about advancements and tips for managing a variety of neurological conditions, including epilepsy, stroke, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, spine disease, Parkinson's disease, and rare neurological conditions.

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Donations made to the TGen Foundation will be used to fund TGen's research needs for improving human health by helping scientists discover new treatments, therapies and cures for many diseases such as autism, melanoma, pancreatic cancer, brain tumors, diabetes and others.

Indeed, Hannah writes that her mother had «always wanted / a brain tumor, some definitive (read: physical) / Disease people will breathe above a whisper».

A secondary form of Addison's disease can result from a tumor or defect in the pituitary gland, which is an important hormonal regulator located in the brain.

Neurological disorders, including brain tumors, or injury or disease to the spine, including tumors or infections

Seizures can be caused from many other things as well (epilepsy, liver disease, brain tumors, etc).

Dog surgery rarely cures the disease, but removing the dog brain tumor can be life saving if it is very large.

Pets with seizure disorders, tumors of the spine and brain, intervertebral disc disease, inflammatory brain diseases, Wobbler's syndrome, neuromuscular diseases, and other conditions involving the nervous system can be diagnosed and treated by a veterinary neurologist.

Though aggression can sometimes be related to a physical problem, such as a brain tumor, encephalitis (infection of the brain), lead poisoning, low blood sugar, or liver disease, it is usually a behavioral problem.

Brain disease, such as a tumor or stroke, that damages the auditory nerve or other parts of the central nervous system that control hearing can also affect hearing.

There are many potential causes of seizures: toxins, tumors, genetic disease such as epilepsy, infections, even scarring in the brain from past trauma.

Causes of seizures from within the brain (structural abnormalities of the brain) include brain tumors, strokes, encephalitis or meningitis, congenital abnormalities (such as hydrocephalus), head trauma, degenerative or storage diseases, infection and other causes.

Dr. Vernau's research interests include inflammatory brain disease, cerebrospinal fluid, metabolic encephalopathies and brain tumors.

This probably occurs because most cases of Cushing's disease are caused by pituitary gland tumors in the brain.

Body chemistry imbalance Brian tumor or other brain disease Infection, esp.