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!
12/01/01
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...
11/27/01
Ex-Manager Oates Has Brain Surgery
(AP)
Former major league manager Johnny Oates underwent surgery Tuesday for a
brain tumor and was listed in good condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
11/12/01
Study Suggests Way to Replace Diseased Eye Cells
(Reuters)
... thin membrane at the back of the eye that captures images that are then transmitted to the
brain through the optic nerve.......--used, for example, to extract foreign objects or
tumors from the eye....
11/12/01
Arcus Therapeutics Announces Grant of Patent For Vascular Targeting Agent Technology
(Business Wire)
... chemotherapeutic agents and coagulation proteins to specific
tumor blood vessel markers, known as aminophospholipids.......Vascular Targeting represents a new technology for the treatment of solid
tumors....... is currently in a multi-center Phase II clinical study for the treatment of
brain cancer and in four Phase I clinical studies for the treatment of colorectal,...
