Brain cancer is the second leading cancer-related cause of death in children. Overall, 70,000 new patients were diagnosed with primarybrain tumorsin 2013, according to the American Brain Tumor Association. However, only about a third turn out to be malignant. Ordinarily, when a patient shows s...
What can you do to lower your risk of getting cancer, especially if you are female and breast cancer is a concern or if you are male and prostate cancer is a concern? What are the three common diseases of the breast that may be manifested as a lump in the breast? How does a physici...
McMaster University researcher Sheila Singh and her team have discovered how glioblastoma, a lethal brain cancer, can evade treatments and kill. The researchers found thecancer cellsthat survive the first round of radiotherapy or chemotherapy do so by mutating during the post-treatmentminimal residual ...
In contrast, cancer cells stimulate the production of new nerves around them and increase neuronal excitability. Some types of cancer, such as head and neck cancer, prostate cancer, and colorectal cancer, tend to attack the space surrounding a nerve to spread to distant tissues. ...
"The other aspect is that it's very difficult to design clinical trials for cancers of the brain, since they stratify into a whole bunch of different diseases based on their molecular profiles. One of the fascinating aspects of our recent work is that the metabolic co-dependency we ...
In the United States (US), the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program is the only comprehensive source of population-based information that includes stage of cancer at the time of diagnosis and patient survival data. This program aims to provide a database about cancer incide...
Most types of cancers can be treated with chemotherapy, including: Blood cancers– Chemotherapy is often the main treatment for blood cancers likeleukemia and lymphoma. Brain and spinal cancers– Treatment forbrain and spinal tumorsdepends on the type, stage and location of the cancer, but chemo ...
When a food allergy is severe, it may lead to a life-threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. Symptoms include itching, swelling of the lips or tongue, difficulty swallowing, hoarseness, shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, chest pain, a weak pulse, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea and...
2.1. Ca2+ channels and cancer Ca2+ is a ubiquitous second messenger in many cell types, underlying several physiological processes such as excitability, contractility, exocytosis, and differentiation [7]. However, there is an emerging role of Ca2+ and related proteins in cell motility, growth, mi...
doctors and patients manage risk. Patients can rest easy with the knowledge that 80 to 90 percent of lupus patients live full lives, and although lupus can put patients at high risk, well-managed patients with proper monitoring are finding that any risk of cancer is often mitigated early on....