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View Post: Childhood Brain Tumors Survivors Left with Life-long Impairments ...
4 Nov 2009 by Ramona Bates MD  
Childhood brain tumors cast long shadows on survivors. ... Cancers of the central nervous system (CNS) are the most common solid malignancies in childhood. Approximately 2200 children and adolescents in the United States are diagnosed with a brain tumor each year. Currently, more than half of all children diagnosed with a brain tumor will be cured of the disease. These survivors are left with the shadows left by the tumors and the treatments. Given the risks now seen to ...
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View Post: Health 101 » Childhood Brain Tumors Leave Lasting Mark
4 Nov 2009 by admin  
(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Childhood brain tumors cast a long shadow over survivors, who later in life, have been shown to have lower levels of education, employment and income, compared to their siblings and survivors of other types of cancer. ... Brain irradiation, in particular, affected task efficiency and memory, although just how much depended on the amount of radiation. Even low-risk brain tumor patients who had surgery but no radiation were impaired compared to other ...
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View Post: Childhood Brain Tumors have long lasting mark on Survivors
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2 Nov 2009 by Assam News   ...
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View Post: Childhood brain tumors leave lasting mark on cognition, life ...
1 Nov 2009 by News  
WASHINGTON — Brain tumors in childhood cast a long shadow on survivors. The first study of the lasting impact of these tumors -- the most common solid malignancies in childhood -- shows that survivors have ongoing cognitive problems. ... Brain irradiation in particular affected task efficiency and memory -- though just how much depended on the amount of radiation. And even low-risk brain tumor patients who had surgery but no radiation were impaired compared to other ...
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View Post: Brain Tumor,Causes and Its Treatments
3 Nov 2009
Symptoms produced by brain tumors depend on their location, size, rate of growth and stage. Some nonmalignant brain tumors that grow slowly can become quite large before producing symptoms because there often is no swelling of the brain tissues. ... A situation similar to this is when a child manifests a difficulty in repeating words which can be a result of either difficulty in hearing, difficulty in moving the parts involved in talking or difficulty in understanding or ...
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View Post: Late Effects of Therapy for Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors ...
19 Oct 2009 by Turner, CD, Rey-Casserly, C., Liptak, CC,...  
Approximately 2 of every 3 of all pediatric patients with brain tumors will be long-term survivors. However, there is a steep cost for pediatric brain tumor survivors, and the group as a whole faces significantly more late effects than ... The late effects experienced by childhood brain tumor survivors involve multiple domains. This article will review the significant late effects that occur within the medical, neurocognitive, psychosocial, and economic domains of the ...
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View Post: Benefit planned for young woman from Savage in fight for her life ...
23 hours ago by Pat Minelli  
By Keighla Schmidt, Correspondent For Marissa Angell's 19th birthday, she got a brain tumor. The tennis-ball sized tumor was wrapped tightly in her brain and it was a gift that would keep coming. ... An MRI confirmed their notions, the main tumor was back, bigger, and it brought more tumors. Doctors then diagnosed the tumor as cancerous. Radiation and chemotherapy were planned. From there, Marissa has had many different forms of treatments and doctors are trying to find ...
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View Post: Neurosurgery Resident's Book Helps Ease Youths' Fears About Brain ...
12 Nov 2009
To help them, she created an original story about a little bear called "Snuggles" — named after a stuffed animal that was her own childhood companion — and the "brain storm" that tumors cause. As Dr. Dogg explains in her story, ... The Children's Brain Tumor Foundation published "Parker's Brain Storm" and makes the book available for free to children who request a copy after seeing the video. Young survivors of brain tumors voice the lines of the characters in the video. ...
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View Post: Retrofantasma Line Up for January-June 2010
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27 Nov 2009 by Dedman13   ...
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View Post: Comprehensive EWG Study Confirms Cell Phone Health Risks
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24 Nov 2009 by Josh   ...
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