Sentences with phrase «treating brain tumors»

On the plus side, the season introduced Meredith to the concept of therapy; introduced a nurse, Rose [Lauren Stamile], who caught Derek's attention while he and Meredith were not together; the trials of the experimental procedure for treating brain tumors, which served to keep Derek and Meredith in close proximity; the introduction of Dr. Erica Hahn [Brooke Smith]; the introduction of Meredith's half - sister, Lexie Grey [Chyler Leigh]; the crumbling of Bailey's [Chandra Wilson] marriage, and the possibility that Erica and Callie [Sara Ramirez] were lesbians.

«Targeted radiosurgery better than whole - brain radiation for treating brain tumors: Study shows effectiveness of radiosurgery in controlling spread of brain cancer after surgery.»

These CAR - T cells were able to penetrate the blood - brain barrier, one of the major hurdles in treating brain tumors.

In the same way that treating a brain tumor by merely taking a pain reliever doesn't address the underlying issue, masking the symptoms of an underlying need with punishment - induced compliance doesn't solve the problem; it intensifies it.

After a successful surgery to treat a brain tumor, Elliot seemed to recover completely, but he began making terrible decisions that were ruining his life.

Help - Daniel is a charity drive to help a game developer, Daniel..., cover the medical expenses needed to treat his brain tumor.

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Novocure's main focus to date has been treating glioblastoma, or GBM, a type of tumor that affects the brain.

He was treated in 2014 for a cancerous brain tumor, which was removed, and underwent preventative chemotherapy afterward.

Yet since 1985, there have been only four FDA - approved drugs to treat the more than 120 different types of brain tumors, according to the National Brain Tumor Socbrain tumors, according to the National Brain Tumor SocBrain Tumor Society.

Glioblastoma remains one of the most difficult types of brain tumors to treat successfully.

What if we could see virtual projections of a brain tumor to better understand ways to treat cancer?

Because Kraft, Coca Cola and Wal - mart are living proof that is possible for giant corporations to make and sell kid - friendly, family - friendly, and healthy processed foods so that we can give our kids some special treats — like the U.K. versions of Starburst and Skittles, for example — without necessarily exposing them to a chemical cocktail that might also give them brain tumors, or leukemia, or the symptoms of ADHD, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest recently highlighted in their report «Rainbow of Risks».

DIPGs are known as one of the most challenging tumors to treat because cancer cells are intimately intermingled with normal brain cells in a part of the brain that can not be surgically resected.

However, from their experience in treating patients with brain tumors, Dr. Hawasli and coauthors raise concerns about this recommendation.

Because it treats the whole brain, the therapy is thought to control the spread of tumors by treating both identifiable and hidden cancerous cells.

The investigators report that trapping virus - loaded stem cells in a gel and applying them to tumors significantly improved survival in mice with glioblastoma multiforme, the most common brain tumor in human adults and also the most difficult to treat.

Research teams from Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have jointly discovered that the usually protective enzyme FBW7 is commonly mutated and inactivated in childhood brain cancers causing tumors to spread and become more difficult to treat.

Treatment with an investigational CAR T - cell therapy induced complete remission of a brain metastasis of the difficult - to - treat tumor diffuse large - B - cell lymphoma (DLBCL), which had become resistant to chemotherapy — the first report of a response to CAR T - cells in a central nervous system lymphoma.

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

«Drug could limit spread of deadly brain tumors: Study shows PPF could help treat glioblastomas by sensitizing tumors to chemotherapy, radiation treatments.»

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.

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

Genetically modified «hunter» T cells successfully migrated to and penetrated a deadly type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma (GBM) in a clinical trial of the new therapy, but the cells triggered an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and faced a complex mutational landscape that will need to be overcome to better treat this aggressive cancer, Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study this week in Science Translational Medicine.

The disorder, marked initially by benign tumors on nerves, often leads to brain cancer, and although most NF1 - related malignancies are nonaggressive, a fraction are «high - grade» and difficult to treat, experts say.

«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).

In early clinical trials, Sessler and his colleagues treated 39 metastatic brain tumor patients with texaphyrins 2 hours before radiation therapy for 10 days.

To find out whether the virus could help treat cancer in a living animal, the researchers injected either Zika virus or saltwater (a placebo) directly into the brain tumors of 18 and 15 mice, respectively.

A new study shows coibamide A has potent anti-cancer activity in mice and cell cultures that model brain tumors and triple negative breast cancer, two of the most aggressive and difficult - to - treat types of cancer.

«We are talking about fast - growing tumors that invade normal brain tissue and are very difficult to treat,» said Orin Bloch, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and lead author of the study.

The quest to improve survival of children with a high - risk brain tumor has led St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators to two drugs already used to treat adults with breast, pancreatic, lung and other cancers.

It is one of the commonest brain tumors treated at Loyola by Dr. Prabhu and his team.

Further study will be needed to see if this vaccine could potentially be approved to treat recurrent brain tumors.

They found that the defect is highly sensitive to an existing FDA - approved drug used to treat ovarian cancer — a discovery that challenges current practice for treatment of brain tumors and other cancers with the same genetic defect, said the scientists.

The activation of this signaling pathway progressively increased in different types of gliomas, with the highest activity seen in patients with glioblastoma, a particularly difficult - to - treat form of brain cancer that represents approximately 15 percent of all brain tumors.

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.

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.

In another experiment, treating human brain cancer cells containing FGFR3 - TACC3 with mitochondrial inhibitors interrupted the production of energy inside cancer cells and significantly slowed tumor growth.

Sophisticated radiation therapy technologies for treating brain and spinal tumors, aneurysms, and blood vessel abnormalities while causing minimal damage to healthy tissues.

«What we see over and over in trying to treat some of the most aggressive and intractable cancers, including many lung, brain, ovarian, breast, melanoma and sarcoma tumors, is that the tumor fights back.

In addition, he has special expertise in treating complex tumors involving the most critical parts of the brain such as the brain stem and skull base.

The enzyme that degrades these chains is called heparanase, and the researchers found that medulloblastoma cells, as well as cells from other childhood brain tumours, need this enzyme, which may suggest new ways to treat the tumor.

Dr. Gaspar has 25 years of experience treating thoracic and brain tumors, utilizing stereotactic techniques, intensity modulated radiation therapy and image guidance.

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center researchers and surgeons are among the first in the nation to treat patients with recurrent brain cancer by directly injecting an investigational viral vector into their tumor.

We treat 80 to 100 children with brain tumors each year, and we established the first pediatric neuro - oncology program in Texas.

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital has expertise in treating the full range of pediatric brain tumor types, including:

At McCain's request, the Mayo Clinic, which is treating him, released a statement explaining that «tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot» that was removed.

I then transitioned to a dedicated surgical neuro - oncology fellowship at the University of Miami, where I gained significant experience in treating malignant brain tumors, developing clinical trials, and delivering minimally invasive therapies for both primary and metastatic tumors of the central nervous system.

The collective goal of the neurosurgical oncology program here at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is the development and delivery of safe, minimally invasive methods of treating tumors of the brain and spine.

Faculty and staff in the Brain and Spinal Tumor Program also are members of the Johns Hopkins Radiosurgery Group and treat many different brain conditions, both benign and maligBrain and Spinal Tumor Program also are members of the Johns Hopkins Radiosurgery Group and treat many different brain conditions, both benign and maligbrain conditions, both benign and malignant.

Physicians and scientists work closely together to continually improve the ways in which we diagnose and treat head and neck, brain and spine tumors, and offer our patients access to innovative techniques, new drugs, and clinical trials of the most - advanced treatment approaches.