“It keeps mutating. No matter what you do, it always comes back.” A glioblastoma is a fast-growing glioma, a type of tumor ...

Of the remaining 7 patients, 5 continued in follow-up for at least 13 years after treatment. Heslop and colleagues observed ...

Nerves cut—tumors shrink When the sympathetic nerve connections to the pancreas were surgically severed or destroyed with special neurotoxins, tumor growth was significantly inhibited. At the ...

As a high school teacher and baseball coach, Steve Loutzenhiser is used to an active life, describing himself as “super ...

The team discovered that the tumor specifically reprograms the neurons for its own benefit. In mice, blocking nerve function inhibited cancer growth and increased the sensitivity of tumor cells to ...

The new surgical method, called NeuroSAFE, preserves the nerves that run through the prostate’s outer layers, which are ...

These mouse strains are used to understand the natural history of tumors of the nervous system, including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST), neurofibromas ...

Treatment of facial nerve weakness or paralysis caused by Bell's palsy, Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, facial nerve tumors, cancer treatment, ear disease, acoustic neuromas, facial trauma, temporal bone trauma ...

Tumor suppressor genes act as “brakes” to ... differentiates into retinal photoreceptor (light-capturing) cells and nerve cells. Typically, these differentiated cells do not divide very ...

Dr. Dan Sperling As a radiologist specializing in prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, I’m writing to share a fear I often hear from my patients. “Will this treatment affect my sex life?” This ...