Sentences with phrase «developed brain cancer»

But around 3 per cent of males developed a brain cancer known as malignant glioma, and up to 6 per cent grew heart tumours called schwannomas (BioRxiv, doi.org/bjfm).

Within a few years his father developed brain cancer and suffered a long, painful death.

But the cat - owning women were no more likely to develop brain cancer than their cat - free counterparts, despite their presumably greater risk of exposure to T. gondii, the team reports online today in Biology Letters.

Patched mice that weren't irradiated did not develop brain cancer.

Not exact matches

Traditional therapies for brain cancer — surgery, chemotherapy and radiation — haven't been very successful, says Memorial Sloan Kettering's Dr. Baselga, adding, «We have a tremendous need to develop new therapies, especially with children.»

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 glioblastoma, the cancer cells resemble those in the developing brain, suggesting that the Zika infection could attack them too.

And in turn, understanding how the brain develops could help bring answers to understand these deadly cancers.»

In a paper published recently in the journal Pediatric Blood & Cancer, he and colleagues document three cases in which fibrolamellar patients, all 18 - year - old women, were found to have developed brain tumors.

Over the past 15 years, the GFP gene has enabled scientists to watch a plethora of previously murky biological processes in action: how nerve cells develop in the brain, how insulin - producing beta cells form in the pancreas of an embryo, how proteins are transported within cells, and how cancer cells metastasize through the body.

Around 10 per cent of people whose cancer has metastasised, or spread beyond the original site, develop brain tumours.

Proton therapy has been shown to be beneficial for certain uncommon ocular and brain cancers, and especially for treating children like Jonathan, whose developing tissues can be highly sensitive to stray radiation.

Scientific studies suggest that chemicals in fish can alter how the brain and reproductive system of a fetus or child develops, or raise the risk of diseases such as cancer later in life.

Approximately eight to ten percent of cancer patients will develop brain metastases, and treatment options are limited.

«Investigating how «chemo brain» develops in cancer patients.»

A team under Professor Scheffler, consisting of researchers from the Bonn University Hospital, the Life & Brain Center, The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Tufts University Boston / Massachusetts, and other institutes in the USA, has now developed a new method that is expected to combat such complex brain tumors beBrain Center, The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Tufts University Boston / Massachusetts, and other institutes in the USA, has now developed a new method that is expected to combat such complex brain tumors bebrain tumors better.

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.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

In efforts to develop new treatments for brain cancer, scientists from Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery and the Kimmel Cancer Center's Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood - brain bacancer, scientists from Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery and the Kimmel Cancer Center's Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood - brain baCancer Center's Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood - brain baCancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood - brain barrier.

To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging, and demonstrated its use in live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and mouse brain tissues.

Researchers have identified a group of immune system genes that may play a role in how long people can live after developing a common type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, a tumor of the glial cells in the brain.

By interfacing brain cells onto graphene, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown they can differentiate a single hyperactive cancerous cell from a normal cell, pointing the way to developing a simple, noninvasive tool for early cancer diagnosis.

«If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hoscancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hoscancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's HosCancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.

The process, which located a genetic site for the most common form of prostate cancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ccancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CCancer Center.

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.

Approximately 30 percent of patients with cancer develop brain metastases, and the incidence of these lesions is rising.

Monje first became interested in neurons» role supporting tumors while working on childhood glioma, a cancer that strikes in the precursors to glial cells in the developing brain.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that distinct types of glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer in adults, tend to develop in different regions of the brain.

Brain cancer patients may live longer thanks to a new cancer - detection method developed by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital — The Neuro, at McGill University and the MUHC, and Polytechnique Montréal.

This knowledge may be used to develop new ways for opening the blood - brain - barrier to increase the efficacy of the brain cancer drugs and for the design of treatment regimes that strengthens the integrity of the blood - brain barrier.»

The memory and thinking problems experienced by cancer survivors, known as «chemo brain» or «chemo fog,» are not just the result of chemotherapy treatment, they may start as tumors form and develop, suggests a Baycrest - led study.

While Zika virus causes devastating damage to the brains of developing fetuses, it one day may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

In the case of breast cancer driven by overexpression of the HER2 gene, up to 50 percent of patients treated with targeted therapies eventually develop brain metastases, which are inevitably fatal.

«Researchers develop a likely new combo treatment for the deadliest form of brain cancer.»

UCLA scientists have developed a potentially promising new combination therapy for glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer.

Shah and his team are currently developing similar animal models of brain metastasis from lung cancers and from melanoma.

Houston Methodist researchers led by Dario Marchetti, PhD, have developed a blood test that can identify circulating tumor cells to predict breast cancer patients at risk for developing brain metastasis.

Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have developed an imageable mouse model of brain - metastatic breast cancer and shown the potential of a stem - cell - based therapy to eliminate metastatic cells from the brain and prolong survival.

Other research at U-M is developing new options for treating brain cancer through immunotherapy — harnessing the immune system to attack cancer cells once an injection of a particular gene therapy is delivered into the brain tumor.

Newswise — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that distinct types of glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer in adults, tend to develop in different regions of the brain.

Boyden explains that the technique he developed to examine brain samples is being applied to «bacteria, cancer, biopsies, virology questions.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 25 September 2011 — Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome associated with risk of developing basal cell carcinoma of the skin (BCC), as well as prostate cancer and glioma, the most serious form of brain cancer.

This allows their brain to develop normally, but also triggers the development of cancer by adding mutated ATRX genes and other genes known to be involved in cancer.

She is also developing a mouse model to study this very lethal brain cancer that occurs in early childhood.

In addition to developing the new genetically engineered mouse model for the form of cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, the researchers made a key discovery about brain tumor biology via the mice.

There are trials elsewhere being developed for a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma.

We have developed pre-clinical models to identify genes, both in the tumour cells and in the microenvironment that regulate the spread of cancer to specific organs such as the liver, lungs and brain.

Li - Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a genetic disorder associated with an increased risk of developing several forms of cancer, including soft tissue sarcoma, breast cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, brain tumors and adrenal gland tumors.

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a new family of nanocarriers, called «3HM,» that meets all the size and stability requirements for effectively delivering therapeutic drugs to the brain for the treatment of a deadly form of cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

A tumor had developed in Jimmy's mastoid bone, pressing upon his brain, and the cancer spread to one lung.