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View Post: Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors Clinical Trial: Radiation ...
23 Nov 2009
Histologically confirmed (by open brain biopsy or from a neurosurgical resection of the tumor) supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme (GBM); WHO grade IV disease; Newly diagnosed disease; Must provide demonstration of an unmethylated ...
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View Post: ftm: ive been recently diagnosed with a small
8 Aug 2009 by Adrian  
ive been recently diagnosed with a small pituitary brain tumor that is messing up my hormones pretty bad in a lot of different ways. my mom is now convinced that when it is treated i will want to be a girl and that the tumor is at fault ... I might have Cushing's syndrome and/or a pituitary tumor. My mother clung to that "hope" for about 5 months while I went through a battery of tests. She insisted that once my "disease" was "corrected" I'd stop wanting to transition. ...
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View Post: Mike Havrilla on DNDN - Dendreon Corp - SocialPicks
12 hours ago by Mike Havrilla  
Initiated in February 2007, START is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in patients with documented unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer who have had a response or stable disease after at least two cycles of .... The Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has initiated an additional Phase 2 clinical trial of Oncophage in combination with the standard of care (radiation + Temodar) for newly ...
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View Post: Cancer Vaccines: Investing Opportunities beyond Dendreon (NASDAQ ...
18 hours ago by Mike Havrilla  
DCVax-Brain is comprised of a patient's own dendritic cells that have been activated to mobilize the whole immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells bearing the biomarkers of the patient's own tumor. ... Patients undergo surgery to remove their tumors, which are then used to manufacture their patient-specific vaccines and then receive four weekly doses of Oncophage and then bi-weekly doses thereafter in the absence of disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, ...
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View Post: Health up your life: HEADACHE
3 hours ago by DIHAN  
This disorder known as secondary headache is cause there are abnormality the other organs in the head ( abnormalities of the eyes and nose ) or other diseases in the brain ( tumor, aneurysm / varicose veins of the brain, blood clots or ...
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View Post: Ed's Journey: Thanksgiving 2009
2 hours ago by Carolyn  
Ed's brain tumor has grown slightly. However, what little I can understand from the MRI report, the growth is very slight, there is a bit more swelling and fluid in the cavity left from the decreased tumor, but the cortex groove (the groove ... Even in the face of a terrible disease, there have been so many blessings. Ed came through brain surgery with flying colors, he did wonderful throughout radiation and two chemotherapy regimens, he was approved for several different ...
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View Post: What Treatment Is Out There For Small Brain Tumors That Come From ...
18 Nov 2009 by admin  
Ahhhh, I am sooooo sorry. I went to http://www.healthline.com which is one of two websites I use frequently. I clicked on “diseases and conditions” and the alphabet comes up. I clicked on “B” hoping for “brain tumor”. ...
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View Post: Lacrosse Magazine :: A Publication of US Lacrosse : Despite Cancer ...
26 Nov 2009
Chris Sanderson, who was told by doctors after having a brain tumor removed last Dec. 22 he might have no more than a year left to live, is approaching the first anniversary of the surgery intent on being in goal for Canada at the world field ... "There are a lot of people who are diagnosed with cancer or some other serious disease and they get up every day and go to work and spend time with their families and are involved in different things, and they're as big an ...
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View Post: UCSF diabetes, brain tumor stem cell grants to drive development ...
28 Oct 2009
The brain tumor disease team will derive human adult and fetal neural stem cells and mesenchymal stem cell lines, each cell line having been proffered as therapeutic, but never having been compared head-to-head in treating tumors. ...
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View Post: Why Is There Always Zero Progress In Treating Cancer?
13 hours ago by admin  
Recent research shows that NO TWO cancer cells, even in the same tumor, are exactly alike. So, even if a treatment kills 99.9% of cells, if only 0.1% of the cells are genetically 'protected' from the treatment, the cancer will “return”. ... There is a DIFFERENT cancer for almost every part of your body — brain cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer, tongue cancer, eye cancer, stomach cancer, bowel cancer, pancreatic cancer — even penis cancer! ALL are different diseases! ...
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