Brain tumors

Best treatments for long-term survival in brain tumor patients

harminka — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:20:23 -0600

A new Mayo Clinic study found that patients with low-grade gliomas survived longest when they underwent aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumor. If safely removing the entire tumor was not possible, patients survived significantly longer when surgery was followed by radiation therapy.

Alternatives for radiation of low-grade brain tumors

harminka — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:56:11 -0500

Chemotherapy may help delay cranial radiation and minimize damaging side effects

New approach to gene therapy may shrink brain tumors

harminka — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:56:11 -0500

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers are investigating a new approach to gene therapy for brain tumors – delivering a cancer-fighting gene to normal brain tissue around the tumor to keep it from spreading.

Erectile dysfunction drugs allowed more chemotherapy to reach brain tumors

harminka — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:07:18 -0500

In a study using laboratory animals, researchers found that medications commonly prescribed for erectile dysfunction opened a mechanism called the blood-brain tumor barrier and increased delivery of cancer-fighting drugs to malignant brain tumors.

Researchers hone technique to KO pediatric brain tumors

harminka — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:12:17 -0500

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, is a step closer to delivering cancer-killing drugs to pediatric brain tumors, similar to the tumor that Senator Ted Kennedy is suffering from.

Magnitude of post-vaccine immune response linked to clinical outcomes

harminka — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:52:54 -0500

Researchers conducting a clinical trial of a dendritic cell vaccine designed to fight malignant brain tumors called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have found a correlation between the "intensity" of a patient's immune response and clinical outcome, according to an article in the July 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research.

Wavelets crunch through doctors' day long struggle to diagnose brain tumors

harminka — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:54:54 -0500

Today if doctors devote a full day to analysis and expert thought, they may be able to provide just half a dozen patients with a diagnosis of the precise type of brain tumour they face. Now researchers at the University of Warwick have devised an automated technique that can give a preliminary analysis of the precise brain tumour type within seconds.

Tests Show Sen. Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor

admin_huliq — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:20:10 -0500

Tests after Senator Edward Kennedy's seizure this past Saturday revealed that the Senator has a Malignant form of Brain Tumor.

Older Patients with brain tumors may benefit from more aggressive treatment

harminka — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:28:43 -0500

A new study from University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC) finds that elderly patients – 75 years old and older-- with malignant brain tumors are not treated as aggressively as patients between 65 and 75 years old. Furthermore, the researchers find that if patients over 75 years old are treated aggressively, such as with surgery and radiation, they have better survival rates.

Far-Fetched Study On Brain and Mobile Phones

seher — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:01:38 -0500

Numerous studies have reported no significant relationship between mobile phone use and health. Still there are scientists who believe that the use of mobile phone can cause brain tumor.

A window to genetic properties of brain tumors

harminka — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:04:14 -0500

Doctors diagnose and prescribe treatment for brain tumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or surgery.

Radiologists use special MRI to identify brain cancer early

harminka — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:37:18 -0500

A special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can depict changes in blood volume in the brain that often precede cancerous transformation of brain tumors, according to a new study published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.