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!
01/08/02
Stem Cells May Help Parkinson's
(AP)
Researchers used embryonic stem cells to relieve symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats, demonstrating the cells can be turned into neurons that make dopamine, a key
brain chemical.
01/07/02
State Trial Set in Pollution Case
(AP Financial)
...Terry Baker died in 1971 at age 16; an autopsy found he had a
brain tumor, lung cancer and hardening of the cardiac arteries, his brother said last week....
01/07/02
State Trial Set in Pollution Case
(AP)
...Terry Baker died in 1971 at age 16; an autopsy found he had a
brain tumor, lung cancer and hardening of the cardiac arteries, his brother said last week....
01/06/02
A Pragmatic Modernist Prepares for Post-Modern Life
(The New York Times)
... you look at it through Bill's eyes, his feeling was that the crucial ingredients were eye,
brain power, toughness.......Then, last summer, a routine exam picked up new
tumors on his lung, and Mr....
12/28/01
A special child
(Akron Beacon Journal)
...Not because six
brain tumors threatened her life 15 months ago....
12/25/01
Protein Linked to Prognosis in Bladder Cancer
(Reuters)
... tissue samples from 63 patients with bladder cancer, they found higher levels of SPARC in
tumors that were more advanced or of a higher grade-...... to the progression of a number of
tumors, including cancers of the breast, colon, skin and
brain.......''has an important role in
tumor invasion in cases of bladder cancer.''...
12/25/01
Students Show Classmate Spirit Of Christmas
(KSAT ClickOnSA.com)
...Eduardo Jimenez, 11, is suffering from
brain cancer that is inoperable......."(The
tumor) is right in the center of my brain and controlling my yawning and vision and all that stuff,...
12/22/01
In Brief: STP, Air
(Rolling Stone)
... the singer/guitarist of death-metal pioneers Death, died December 13th of complications of a
brain tumor....
12/21/01
In Brief: McCartney, Vedder
(Rolling Stone)
... the singer/guitarist of death-metal pioneers Death, died December 13th of complications of a
brain tumor....
12/20/01
In Brief: Kid Rock, Costello
(Rolling Stone)
... the singer/guitarist of death-metal pioneers Death, died December 13th of complications of a
brain tumor....
12/19/01
In Brief: Britney, Furtado
(Rolling Stone)
Britney Spears and Mick Jagger have been added to the list of performers for the twenty-ninth-annual American Music Awards, which are set for January 9th in Los Angeles; the program will be aired on ABC . . . Nelly Furtado, Ja Rule, Usher, Outkast and India.Arie will announce the nominees for the forty-fourth-annual Grammy Awards on January 4th in Beverly Hills . . . Betty Blowtorch frontwoman Bianca Halstead was killed on December 15th in a car accident near New Orleans; she was thirty-six . . . Robbie Robertson will be the keynote speaker at the South by Southwest Music Conference, which will take place in Austin from March 13th through the 17th . . . Chuck Schuldiner, the singer/guitarist of death-metal pioneers Death, died December 13th of complications of a
brain tumor. He was thirty-four . . .
12/18/01
'01 Had Breakthrough in Angioplasty
(AP)
... a new drug effective against an unusual digestive cancer called gastrointestinal stromal
tumors.......It is also being tested in lung, prostate and
brain cancer. Standard chemotherapy goes after all fast-dividing cells and kills them indiscriminately....
12/15/01
Pharmacyclics shares hit record low on drug trial
(Reuters Securities)
Pharmacyclics Inc. shares lost more than half their value on Friday, plunging to a record low after the drug developer said its lead cancer drug failed to prove effective in the treatment of cancer that has spread to the
brain from another part of the body.
12/15/01
Pharmacyclics Shares Hit Record Low
(Reuters)
Pharmacyclics Inc. (PCYC.O) shares lost more than half their value on Friday, plunging to a record low after the drug developer said its lead cancer drug failed to prove effective in the treatment of cancer that has spread to the
brain from another part of the body.
12/15/01
Cancer foundation gives family hope
(Contra Costa Times)
...Tim and Lesa Fitzpatrick vowed to find out why 3,000 U.S. children are diagnosed with
brain tumors each year and to help put a stop to it....
12/14/01
Pharmacyclics cancer drug fails to prove effective
(Reuters Securities)
Drug developer Pharmacyclics Inc. on Thursday said its lead cancer drug, Xcytrin, failed to prove effective in the treatment of
brain metastases, cancer that has spread to the
brain from another part of the body.
