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!
04/10/02
Company Says Drug Cuts Off Tumors' Food Supply
(Reuters)
An experimental drug has been shown to shrink
brain tumors in mice by fooling cancer cells into thinking they are starving, the drug's maker, Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., said on Tuesday.
04/06/02
Health Highlights: April 5, 2002
(HealthSCOUT)
...Doctors say it should help them diagnose serious pancreatic dysfunctions and pancreatic
tumors called a gastrinomas. -...... more concerning of the drinking patterns because it is more associated with birth defects and
brain disorders in children. ...
04/05/02
Cells primed to carry relief to brain tumors
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health for the first time have engineered a type of immature human
brain cell to carry potent anti-cancer substances directly to malignant
brain tumors in animals.
04/04/02
Infant Cancer Screening No Panacea
(HealthSCOUT)
WEDNESDAY, April 3 (HealthScoutNews) -- Routine screening for some of the most common forms of solid
tumors in babies might catch cancers early, but it doesn't seem to reduce the risk of death from the disease.
04/03/02
Painting What's Left of Faces, Sometimes What's Behind
(The New York Times)
... people with severe facial deformities: accident victims, cancer sufferers with disfiguring head
tumors and people with congenital defects in their faces, mouths and jaws....... the subjects included Henry Ekpe, 35, a nurse with a malignant bone
tumor whose face was reconstructed after the removal of his right eye,......I've removed his lower jaw, his upper jaw, his eye socket, his forehead, part of his
brain....
04/02/02
Aces in a Hole on Opening Day
(AP)
... Yards was reserved for Johnny Oates, the former Orioles manager undergoing treatment for a
brain tumor....
04/02/02
Al Wrap: Batista's Homer Leads Orioles Vs. Yankees
(Reuters)
... Johnny Oates throwing out the first pitch after having recently undergone surgery to remove a
brain tumor, the sellout Camden Yards crowd of 48,058 was looking for something special on opening...
04/02/02
Orioles 10, Yankees 3
(AP)
... pregame ceremony was reserved for former Orioles manager Johnny Oates, undergoing treatment for
brain tumor....
04/02/02
Lawmaker Ready To Stake New Claim
(Tampa Bay Online)
TALLAHASSEE - During her first two years in the Legislature, Lutz Democratic Rep. Sara Romeo has survived a
brain tumor, breast cancer and a fire that destroyed her office.
03/31/02
Oxford Defeats Cambridge in Boat Race
(AP)
..." Perkins, who was told he had fewer than two years to live when a
tumor the size of a golf ball was found on his
brain a half-dozen years ago,...
