St. Jude helps Brazil improve outcomes of children with leukemia
.... "The cost of treatment, stress of traveling to a distant hospital and lack of local housing and employment can discourage parents from seeing their child through the long treatment process," he said. The program not only established an efficient pediatric cancer care unit where children received continuous...News tips from The Journal of Neuroscience
... recovery and repair but perhaps compensation from distant regions, including the contralateral hemisphere. This week, Lotze et al. examined a group of patients with a history of an ischemic stroke involving the internal capsule. These patients initially had significant movement impairment in the affected ha...Obesity linked to all types of breast cancer
... up to three times more likely to have regional or distant metastases than women with less weight gain. The study is the first to investigate the relationship between weight gain and type of breast cancer. Breast cancer risk is linked to increased lifetime levels of circulating estrogen. Fat tissue increases...Nanotechnology expert analysis: Huge impacts from tiny tech
...hics to economics, and from our remote past to our distant future, this new collection illustrates the profound transformation that nanotechnology will have on every aspect of human society. Ray Kurzweil, renowned inventor, entrepreneur, and best-selling author, explained, "As the pace of technological advan...Look out! Eyeglass injuries may lead to hospital visit
...-related injuries. Contusions and abrasions were a distant second, making up about 20 percent of all injuries. Older adults were nearly 30 percent more likely to injure their face and head than working-age adults. The working-age group was by far the most likely to directly injure an eyeball: 37 percent of ...Two surgeries for nearsightedness equally effective
.... This shape causes the eye to focus on light from distant objects in front of instead of directly on the retina, the part of the eye that transforms light into the nervous system signals that make up vision. The misfocus blurs the appearance of far-off objects such as highway signs or faces seen at a distan...Jefferson scientists reveal new mechanism that causes spread of colorectal cancer
... fundamental to permit tumor cell proliferation to distant sites," Dr. Pitari says. "In addition to stromal cells, the tumor cell itself is a good source of MMP-9 and in fact, is doing the seeding of the colon cancer, promoting metastasis. No one has ever shown this particular mechanism. The current paradigm...There's more than meets the eye in judging the size of an object
... brick hallway. In this kind of illusion, the more distant object appears to occupy a larger portion of the visual field. Using fMRI, the researchers examined how the brains of five people with normal vision registered this difference in perceived size. They found that the brain region known as the primary ...Supplemental radiation therapy beneficial for stage I endometrial cancer
...eneficial effects of adjuvant RT on both local and distant tumor control for certain patient cohorts," the authors write. "Statistical analysis cannot replace clinical judgment when considering the individual patient, tumor characteristics, and the potential risks and benefits of adjuvant RT. Hopefully, appr...Potential treatment for intracerebral hemorrhage under study
...imaging shows it also seems to have an effect more distant than just where you see the hemorrhage." Patients ...e MCG team works with health care providers at the distant hospitals to give tPA. The study, comparing two doses of activated factor VIIa to placebo, will enro...Vertebroplasty heals fractures but may cause others, Mayo Clinic study finds
...ebroplasty fracture significantly sooner than more distant vertebrae. Findings will be published in the January issue of American Journal of Neuroradiology ( http://www.ajnr.org ). "We found there is a relationship between vertebroplasty and the development of new fractures," says Andrew Trout, first author...Cancer researchers describe gene that halts spread of aggressive childhood cancer
...in that primary tumor to metastasize, or travel to distant sites, where they develop new tumors," said David ...lves to become much more aggressive and survive in distant sites in the body. "We've shown now in animals and human tissue that as soon as the neuroblastoma ce...New evidence supports century-old theory of cancer spread
...ncluding the ability to migrate to lymph nodes and distant organs and to form a new blood supply. Our data indicate that they do this by hybridizing with macrophages," said lead author John Pawelek, research affiliate in the Department of Dermatology at Yale School of Medicine and a member of Yale Cancer Cen...How the neuron sprouts its branches
...stand how molecules are selected for import to the distant reaches of the dendrites and which will be locally synthesized in the dendrites. Such studies could give important insights into the machinery of neuronal growth and how it is controlled, he said. "Understanding this machinery has clinical relevance ...ANU cancer researcher wins biomedical award
... cancer cells to spread from the primary tumour to distant organs and also helps white cells enter tissues during inflammatory responses. Professor Parish has developed a synthetic, sugar-based inhibitor of heparanase, called PI-88, which blocks cancer spread and also reduces tumour growth by stopping the g...Key mechanism found that promotes spread of malignant melanoma
... to metastasize, or spread from a primary tumor to distant sites within the body. Results of their study, published in the November issue of Cancer Research, suggest that the signaling mechanism may be a potential target for prevention of metastatic melanoma. The study was led by Angela R. Hess, a research...Have researchers found a biomarker to signal a more agressive form of prostate cancer?
...omarkers were associated with biochemical failure, distant metastasis or overall mortality, MDM2 was consiste... outcomes. MDM2 was associated with a doubling of distant metastasis (10 to 20 percent) and a nearly 10 percent reduction in five-year survival....'Big picture' of brain changes may be crucial to recovery from stroke injury
...o alterations in the function of other potentially distant brain areas. To determine if distributed injury p... from the injury site." These activity changes in distant brain regions were correlated with the severity of impairment in visual target detection, providing ...Study: No effects of type II diabetes on aggressiveness of prostate cancer; long-term survival worse
...t appear to influence the rates of PSA failures or distant metastases. However, men with type II diabetes ha...ith DM-II. Seven percent (92) of NDM patients had distant metastases compared to 4.9 percent (10) with DM-II . Of the patients with NDM, 3.1 percent (41) die...Revised classification system is effective for predicting breast cancer outcome in some patients
... the revised TNM was strongly associated with both distant disease-free survival and overall survival, the report said. A higher stage of residual tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy was associated with a statistically significant lower rate of disease-free survival. "Before the revisions, the AJCC system ...