Brain Tumor News!
Note: The comments under each article title are the opinion of our president, Al Musella, DPM,
and do not reflect official policy of the Musella Foundation!
12/02/01
Caring friends' recipe for survival
(Contra Costa Times)
... physical education teacher who'd never had more than a cold her entire life, was diagnosed with a
brain tumor....
12/02/01
Former Beatle George Harrison Dead At 58
(SonicNet)
... rare form of radiation therapy, known as fractionated sterotactic radiosurgery, which hits
tumors with high doses of radiation while leaving the surrounding, healthy tissue unaffected,...... taken from his lung in April (see).I n June, he began undergoing radiation treatment for the
brain tumor that brought about his death (see)....
12/01/01
Scientists Turn Stem Cells Into Brain Cells
(Reuters)
Two separate teams of international researchers said on Friday they had found reliable ways to coax human embryonic stem cells into becoming
brain cells.
12/01/01
He's awake, alert with brain exposed
(The Arizona Daily Star)
... sharp pain when the drill moved through the skull bone and hit the sensitive lining of his
brain....... as the surgeon began the delicate and dangerous job of cutting out a cancerous
tumor embedded deep in his
brain......." the procedure is done only on the most dangerously located
tumors, and on patients who can handle it....
12/01/01
Houstonians Remember Music Legend
(KPRC Click2Houston.com)
...Harrison admitted there was more cancer and that it had spread to his
brain.......Harrison finished radiation treatments in Switzerland for the
brain tumor and said that there was no further need for treatment.......Large
tumors are more difficult to treat successfully, according to doctors....
12/01/01
Harrison's death could help smokers quit
(Reuters)
...Walker said Harrison's fight against cancer began with lung and throat
tumors and more recently he received treatment for a growth on his
brain....
12/01/01
Beatle George Harrison Dies
(E! Online)
...In June, he was treated at a Swiss clinic for a
brain tumor, just months after checking into the Mayo Clinic to have a cancerous lung operated on....
11/30/01
Harrison's Death Could Help Smokers Quit
(Reuters)
...Walker said Harrison's fight against cancer began with lung and throat
tumors and more recently he received treatment for a growth on his
brain....
11/30/01
George Harrison Dead at 58
(ABCNEWS.com)
... diagnosed with lung cancer in 1997 and was treated in Switzerland earlier this year for a
brain tumor....
11/27/01
Radio Waves Destroy Kidney Cancer Tumors in Trials
(Reuters)
Destroying cancer
tumors with the same energy used to send radio signals has shown promising results in nonsurgical patients, and may gain wider acceptance, researchers said on Tuesday.
11/27/01
Rational Decisions Guided by Emotion - Study
(Reuters)
...Based on X-ray images of the
brains of people making decisions, a study concluded there was evidence that types of thinking considered...... magnetic resonance images taken of the
brains of 11 subjects corroborated previous evidence from
brain-damaged subjects that the area of the
brain associated with emotions play an important role......''People who have had strokes or
brain tumors that caused injury to the prefrontal lobes of their
brains, where emotions are processed,...
11/27/01
Even Logic Has an Emotional Side
(HealthSCOUT)
...However,
brain scans of 11 healthy adults shows the part of the
brain that records emotions was much more...... other research shows that people with injury to the ventromedial front lobe through stroke or
tumors have a very difficult time making the simplest decisions about themselves,...... normal
brain works and how emotions are processed, we can understand what's different about the
brains of schizophrenics....
11/27/01
Today's Health Highlights: Nov. 26, 2001
(HealthSCOUT)
... Death A London tabloid said that former Beatle George Harrison, who has been battling lung and
brain cancer, is reportedly near death, ABC News reported today....... undergoing an "experimental type of radiosurgery" that failed to keep his
brain tumor from spreading....
11/27/01
Film Based on Atwater Bio Planned
(AP)
...Atwater died of a
brain tumor in March 1991. Actor Jay Mohr, known for his roles in ''Pay It Forward'' and ''Jerry...