Biomedical researchers at the University of Central Florida have found a protein that could hold the key to treating one of the most common and aggressive brain tumors in adults. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the type of malignant brain tumor that killed the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, is...
MIT chemists have developed a new platinum compound that is as powerful as the commonly used anticancer drug cisplatin but better able to destroy tumor cells. The new compound, mitaplatin, combines cisplatin with another compound, dichloroacetate (DCA), which can alter the properties of...
There was no substantial change in brain tumor incidence among adults 5 to 10 years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication published online December 3 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Although cell phone use has been proposed as a risk...
Patients with terminal brain cancer who watched a brief video illustrating options for end-of-life care were significantly more likely to indicate a preference for comfort measures only than were patients who listened to a verbal description of treatment choices. Practically all those viewing...
UroToday.com - Immunotherapy with interleukin 2 (IL-2) for metastatic renal cancer continues to offer a minority of patients the potential of durable complete responses without additional treatments. The lack of benefit in the majority of patients is evidence that the balance of complex...
This "Mechanical Tumor" plugs into your computer, looking very fleshy and realistic. As your computer runs, it quivers and pulses, growing as your computer works harder.
The brainchild of Japanese interactive media artist Mio I-zawa, this thing is flat-out disgusting. I mean, it's certainly...
My older dog has a tumor lump under neither her neck and for the past few weeks my other dog sammy would always lick it for her. now the tumor lump is gone. can anyone explain this.?
My cat has been having nose problems for several weeks and it hasn't been getting better so I took him to the vet. The vet looked in his nose and couldn't see anything so he said he was worried it might be a tumor. He asked me to leave him over night so he could take some x-rays. I was just...
I have this pain in my head that's been there for a few days now, I also noticed that over the past few days, I noticed I have a bump on the left side of my head where it hurts. I'm concerned about it, because I've had significant changes mentally and physically over the past 5 years..
I have...
i have this burning headache kind of thing and and i was wondering if it is a tumor, i am an extremely healthy kid im not overwieght, i take my vitamins i eat healthy i do have panic disorder and anxiety and i was just wondering if it is possible for me to get a tumor?
I had bells palsy twice a few years back. No i am starting to feel pain in the nerve in my head and i was wondering if it was bels palsy coming back or if it was a tumor or something else. Iv been feeling dizzy lately sometimes and emotional.
Latley ive had problems breathing for the past 6 months doctors think its anxiety and im usually tired alot and rarley feel a sharp pain in the side of my head like something pushing against it is this any sign of cancer or some sort of tumor?
I'm 13, and I've been having this bad headaches for about a month now. And my mom has told me that when you talk on your cell phone too much it can fry your brain. And you could get a tumor, and I talk on the phone a lot. Do you think it could be a tumor? Or what else could it be. Help please! :[
Hi guys! see I'm getting this feeling where my brain hurts but my mom said its normal but I don't know if she is right. Okay so I'm getting this for quite a long time now. Every time I get hyper/excited I feel this pain like one time in our school dance I was dancing and I was looking up then...
i have a small lump under myright jaw bone. I can move it to different placs but it always sets back to its normal place. and i am paranoid it could be a tumor what is it?
This doesn't seem to make sense. People in my family don't get tumors or cancer. No one has died from diseases like this in both sides of my family and in fact all of my great grandparents lived till they were in there 90s and then died of natural causes. I don't understand why I would get a...