Natalie is currently receiving chemotherapy at St. Jude. She is doing well. Dr. Sanders has given her a 70 percent chance of survival over the next five years.
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
The doctor’s consultation room was small, sterile, chilly. A few cartoon cardboard cutouts on the wall did little to brighten the space. The air was still and disturbingly quiet. Even a deep breath would have landed with a thump.
Prenatal X-rays don’t raise kids’ brain tumor risk
Posted in News on Dec 28th, 2007
Overall, children born to women who received an X-ray while pregnant are not more likely than other children to develop a brain tumor, Swedish researchers report based on a study they conducted. However, the study hints that abdominal X-rays during pregnancy may raise the risk of a specific type of brain tumor called primitive neuroectodermal tumors.
When Kristen and her husband, Andrew, found out Natalie had just a few more months to live, they made a list of everything they wanted her to experience before dying: Celebrate her birthday. Ride a carousel. Taste ice cream. Play with balloons. Go trick-or-treating. Dip her feet into the ocean. Lick a lollipop. See Christmas lights.
In the early morning, while Kristen laid Natalie on the changing table, she wiggled a stuffed toy above the baby’s head. It seemed like the child was trying to look at the toy, but couldn’t. Her eyeballs quivered slightly. Kristen, a former nurse, thought something was off.
Stem cells—popularly known as a source of biological rejuvenation—may play harmful roles in the body, specifically in the growth and spread of cancer. Amongst the wildly dividing cells of a tumor, scientists have located cancer stem cells
My main goal is to be able to graduate with my class– Not a lofty dream for most high school seniors. But one young woman with a pirate’s crooked smile is thrilled to know that this goal is finally attainable.
The addition of capecitabine to lapatinib in patients with brain metastases from breast cancer was associated with additional responses in the central nervous system, researchers reported here at the 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill are exploiting an “Achilles Heel” of brain tumors that may selectively kill tumor cells while sparing surrounding brain tissue.
Each day, Sam Hutchison swallows 44 pills, most of which weren’t prescribed by his physician. They were chosen by Sam’s father, who devised the treatment cocktail — and tests many of the medicines on himself — in a desperate effort to save his seven-year-old son.
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