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!
08/18/01
Maureen Reagan Mourned at Service
(AP)
... nine-month battle with skin cancer that had progressed from a melanoma diagnosis in 1996 to
tumors in her hip and
brain....
08/17/01
Obituaries in the News
(AP)
... world-record holder at 10,000 meters and an Olympic silver medalist in the event, died Wednesday of a
brain tumor....
08/14/01
Prescient completes Phase I safety study
(Canada NewsWire)
...Phase II studies in
tumor types where pre-clinical models have shown efficacy (non-small cell lung carcinoma and cervical...... safety and tolerance study of AVLB in patients with advanced solid
tumors....... Canadian biotechnology and drug discovery company focused on the rescue and protection of
brain cells....
08/14/01
Prescient completes Phase I safety study
(PR Newswire)
...Phase II studies in
tumor types where pre-clinical models have shown efficacy (non-small cell lung carcinoma and cervical...... safety and tolerance study of AVLB in patients with advanced solid
tumors....... Canadian biotechnology and drug discovery company focused on the rescue and protection of
brain cells....
08/14/01
IVAX Distributes Letter To Shareholders
(Business Wire)
...
Brain Tumor Compounds Our lead
brain cancer compound, TP38, is currently in Phase I/II clinical trials...... which unlike most experimental cancer treatments of malignant
brain tumors, is designed to kill cancer cells while leaving the normal
brain cells unaffected....
08/13/01
Xenova: Interim Results Announcement 2001
(PR Newswire)
... innovative immunotherapeutic vaccine, is designed as a treatment for a broad range of solid
tumors.......DISC-GMCSF delivers the gene for the expression of GM-CSF, a potent stimulator of anti-
tumor immune responses, direct to the
tumor site through the use of a disabled virus vector (DISC)...... the nicotine will bind to these antibodies, which are too large to cross the blood-
brain barrier, thus reducing or removing the pleasurable stimulus which usually accompanies smoking....
08/13/01
Geron Corporation Announcement: Kyowa Hakko Selects Telomerase Inhibitor Compound for Development
(Business Wire)
... potent and specific telomerase inhibitory activity in vitro and exhibits significant anti-
tumor activity against multiple types of human cancer cells.......In vivo studies in rodents demonstrated activity against human malignant glioblastoma (
brain cancer)....... the most pathogenic features of cancer cells is their loss of growth control, which allows
tumors to invade and grow in normal tissue, causing loss of organ function and in many cases,...
08/09/01
Stem Cells Offer Therapeutic Promise
(Reuters)
...Stem cells are master cells that have the ability to transform themselves into other cell types, including those in the
brain,...... and that runaway growth of embryonic stem cells could produce
tumors....
08/09/01
Music Notes: Bobby Brown Hospitalized
(ABCNEWS.com)
..." MoreoverFormer Beatle George Harrison has bought a 14 bedroom Swiss villa near the hospital where he was recently treated for a
brain tumor …...
