Sentences with phrase «diagnosed with a tumor»

By the time she was diagnosed with the tumor and sought help from Dr. Isaacson, the ear had lost all function and could not be fixed.

It also included 4,082 women aged 45 to 64 with breast cancer and a comparison group of 299,663 similar women who weren't diagnosed with these tumors.

Our Shih - Tzu was diagnosed with a tumor in his spine.

She was an old dog and we all knew she wouldn't live forever, but things suddenly changed when she was diagnosed with a tumor located at the base of her heart.

My ten year old cockapoo was diagnosed with a tumor in her nasal cavity.

Overview Dogs and cats are frequently diagnosed with tumors of the oral cavity.

My dog was diagnosed with the tumors and it was to late for surgery they are already in her lungs so love and comfort is all we could do it has been at least 6 months but last night we believe she had a stroke has been struggling to walk around with her head turned to the right and is still eating OK my little 6 year old dog is totally confused what is wrong with her but stays with her most of the day

I purchased a policy to cover a scheduled cruise for February and one week before our departure I was diagnosed with a tumor in my left kidney.

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In 2009 he had been diagnosed with a type of rapidly growing brain tumor called a high - grade astrocytoma that, despite aggressive treatment, eventually evolved into a glioblastoma — the highly malignant brain tumor that also took the lives of Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau, in 2015 and former Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009.

I'd returned home from almost a year on the road with a gospel choir because my dad had been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

«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.»

Grand Reed is a 12 - year - old die hard Ohio State Buckeyes fan, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2011.

Doctors use CT scans in the brain to diagnose brain tumors or visualize injuries, bleeding, or any structural changes and infections that can occur and be difficult to see with an X-ray or routine exam.

Menounos was diagnosed with her brain tumor in the spring after suffering through headaches and blurred speech.

My sweet little nephew who is 5 was just diagnosed with a stage 4 brain tumor.

A featured blogger for Northeast Ohio Parent Magazine, she muses about family life and shares occasional updates about her husband Dave's low - grade astrocytoma, a brain tumor he was diagnosed with in 2012.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, 80, was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor — glioblastoma — following an earlier craniotomy to remove a blood clot from above his left eye, the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix said.

Just weeks after he was named chief medical officer at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Dr. Boris Kuvshinoff was diagnosed with an inoperable late - stage tumor in the nasal cavity above his mouth and became a patient there.

Garcia ran only after the top contender, a Chicago teachers» union boss, was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

After adjusting for age, tumor location, and stage, researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute discovered that women diagnosed with malignant melanoma during their pregnancy or within one year of giving birth were 5.1 - times as likely to die, 6.9 - times as likely to experience metastasis, and 9.2 - times more likely to have a recurrence.

The problem with waiting until a tumor has grown large enough to be felt, however, is that the delay increases the odds that the cancer will have spread by the time it is diagnosed.

Seventy four percent of enrolled patients were diagnosed with ovarian cancer with tumors that had relapsed and metastasized in the peritoneum, the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity.

In many patients diagnosed with LUAD, tumors cells have already spread to the brain, leading to decreased quality of life and low survival rates.

June 4 — 11 In 2008 U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy became one of the nearly 200,000 Americans each year who are diagnosed with a brain tumor.

To Kalish, the patients who are diagnosed with the syndrome after they develop cancer, like the little girl whose adrenal tumor set off alarm bells, have her wondering whether the incidence of Beckwith - Wiedemann is higher than reported.

«It's very difficult to produce a mouse model of a solid tumor of the type we see in most women who are diagnosed with cervical cancer.

«The long - term vision would be: A patient goes in and finds out they've been diagnosed with some sort of solid tumor,» Kilian said.

The team looked at tumor samples taken from 314 patients diagnosed with DCIS.

And in May, a week after Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, The EMR Policy Institute, a Marshfield, Vt. — based nonprofit organization that supports research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, released a statement linking his tumor to heavy cell phone use.

«For men initially diagnosed with low - risk prostate cancer, MRI - ultrasound confirmatory biopsy including targeting of suspicious lesions seen on MRI results in frequent detection of tumors,» the study states.

Importantly, elevated BRCA1 methylation was confined to patients diagnosed with so - called high - grade serous tumors, the most aggressive variant of ovarian cancer, which also is the variant associated with BRCA1 mutations.

He told Schmidt that he'd welcome an app — «for your iPhone or whatever the new Google one is» — that could help him the next time he sees a patient diagnosed with a rare renal tumor.

«Patients diagnosed with renal tumors have more options than ever before, said Dr. Mehrazin.

Brien diagnosed Lovett with a tumor called clear cell chondrosarcoma, an uncommon form of bone cancer that rarely responds to chemotherapy or radiation.

The anxiety and uncertainty that men who choose active surveillance experience when diagnosed with prostate cancer causes one in four to receive definitive therapies within one to three years, even when there is no sign of tumor progression.

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

A new study by UCLA scientists has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with a one - week regimen of partial breast radiation after the surgical removal of the tumor, or lumpectomy, saw no increase in cancer recurrence or difference in cosmetic outcomes compared to women who received radiation of the entire breast for a period of up to six weeks after surgery.

• People with paragangliomas and those diagnosed with metastatic tumors should be tested for specific gene mutations associated with those conditions;

What has changed about care for this type of tumor since Sen. Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with it in May 2008?

As famously chronicled in science writer Rebecca Skloot's best - selling book, the cell line was established, without Lacks's consent, from a cervical tumor that she was diagnosed with in 1951.

Jobs, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004, initially underwent surgery to remove the tumor.

He was eventually diagnosed with a rare sarcoma called ossifying fibromyxoid tumor.

A Randomized Phase 3 Single Blind Study of Temozolomide Plus Radiation Therapy Combined with Nivolumab or Placebo in Newly Diagnosed Adult Subjects with MGMT - Methylated (Tumor O6 - methylguanine DNA methyltransferase) Glioblastoma

This phase II trial studies how well chemotherapy and radiation therapy work in treating younger patients with newly diagnosed central nervous system germ cell tumors.

For a majority of patients diagnosed with aggressive, high - grade tumors with metastases, the five - year survival rate is about 16 percent, though chemotherapy has been associated with an improvement in survival, and new targeted agents are being tested.

A Michigan man who had been diagnosed with brain tumor became the first patient to undergo proton beam therapy in the state.

But as fewer and fewer women were diagnosed with large breast tumors, pre-op chemo began to be used in patients with smaller cancers, too, in the hope that it would extend survival.

The study included 116 St. Jude patients with central nervous system tumors, which are the most commonly diagnosed solid tumor in childhood.

When Laura Moreno was diagnosed with a low - lying mass in her rectum, she turned to Irving Waxman, MD, who performed an advanced endoscopic procedure that completely removed the tumor without the potentially dangerous complications of surgery.

The biggest beneficiaries of evolving therapy were young patients diagnosed with ALL, Hodgkin lymphoma or Wilms tumor as their primary cancer.