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!
02/01/02
Health Highlights: Jan. 28, 2002
(HealthSCOUT)
...Aside from being angry at reports that he had a
tumor, the Dalai Lama is said to be recovering well, hospital officials said....... this gene is not involved in moving chemical signals in and out of
brain cells....
01/29/02
Monkey Neurons Made From Stem Cells
(ABCNEWS.com)
Scientists have made monkey
brain cells from stem cells. And they're hoping their method will lead to a cure for Parkinson's disease.
01/29/02
Genome research funding is sought
(The Arizona Daily Star)
... nonprofit foundation is already doing some work in Scottsdale, analyzing
tumor samples....... eventually be between $50 million and $500 million a year, said Dr. Michael Berens, whose
brain tumor research lab at St....
01/28/02
Worlds come together in Copley
(Akron Beacon Journal)
... the project after having what she describes as a religious experience while recovering from
brain tumor surgery in 1996. Full story at Akron Beacon Journal ...
01/24/02
Childhood Cancer Exposes a Weak Spot
(HealthSCOUT)
A poorly understood type of childhood
brain cancer has a unique molecule signature that may point to which therapies could best fight it, says new research.
01/24/02
Report: Cancer Suit Settled for $13.2M
(AP)
... whose 22-year-old son, Michael, suffers from neuroblastoma, a rare type of
tumor. ''The numbers do not reflect in any way what the families and the children went through,......Leukemia,
brain cancers and central nervous system cancer all occurred at higher-than-normal rates,...
01/21/02
Grandma Pushes for Kids' Eye Exams
(AP)
The signs of cancer were in the photos. The chubby, golden-haired toddler wore a big smile as he sat on Santa's lap. But unknown to his family, the white dot captured on film in his right eye was a
tumor reflecting light.
01/19/02
Cakewalk: Thank You, and Good Night
(L.A. Weekly)
But there was more. Over the months and then years, my sister, through her secretary, Juliana, reported complications and subsequent poor recoveries in hospitals where the nephew was alone and too often unattended. Steroid treatments were blowing him up, and he had gone completely blind. This past year, Vincent had grown another
tumor, this time on the
brain stem, and a local cadre of surgeons had decided not to operate. Keith Black had decided the same thing. Vincent sang to himself to keep up his spirits. He wanted to go to school, but the isolation of the reservation and a lack of money made things difficult. Juliana visited him faithfully, bringing homemade tamales or zucchini bread or other things her sister Hope, the boy’s mother, might be able to sell on the reservation. She brought extra money if she had it. My sister and I went from feeling deeply, helplessly sorry to being outraged about the whole thing. The wild injustice of the
tumor became, by tacit agreement, our story. Our initial mist of mutual concern about a likely newspaper clipping quickly condensed into a name — Vincent Hinman — and a presence that assumed a regular place in our daily exchanges about the world and the people we knew. We both became soundly vested in the terrifying fortunes of someone we had never met.
01/16/02
Ex-Olympic Skater Seybold-Catron To Have Tumor Removed
(WRTV TheIndyChannel.com)
Former Olympic figure skater Kim Seybold-Catron, who carried the Olympic flame in Indianapolis during a relay last week, will undergo surgery in March to remove a non-malignant
brain tumor.
