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Despite cancer, Portland judge Michael Marcus remains 'marvelous in the courtroom'
View full sizeJamie Francis/The OregonianThose who've been to Judge Michael Marcus' Multnomah County Circuit courtroom recently can tell something has changed in his life.He used to have a full head of hair. Judge Michael Marcus was watching a skit at a...
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Photoclinic: Arachnoid Cyst
The parents of a 7-year-old girl, who had fallen off her bicycle and hit her left forehead 2 weeks earlier, brought their daughter to the emergency department after she began having increasingly severe headaches.She had been healthy before her fall and had...
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Children with Ewings Sarcoma or Astrocytoma Most Likely to Experience Late Recurrence
Late recurrence of childhood cancers appears to occur most often in Ewings sarcoma and astrocytoma, according to the results of a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.As cancer treatment has improved and evolved, the number...
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Rapamycin (sirolimus) in tuberous sclerosis associated pediatric central nervous system tumors
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is associated with hamartomatous growths including subependymal giant cell astrocytomas (SEGAs).Since chemo-radiation therapies offer scant benefit, oncologists had traditionally been little involved in managing SEGAs....
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Diffuse central nervous system protoplasmic astrocytoma
Protoplasmic astrocytoma is an extremely rare form of grade II low grade glioma which usually presents as a discrete mass lesion.We describe a 3-year-old female with diffuse protoplasmic astrocytoma with parenchymal involvement and leptomeningeal...
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Is there a role for myeloablative chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic cell rescue in the management of childhood high-grade astrocytomas?
High-grade or malignant glioma represent 10% of pediatric brain tumors and are, taken as a whole, the second more frequent malignant histotype after medulloblastoma.Apart from a complete excision followed by full dose local radiotherapy, chemotherapy seems...
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Is there a role for myeloablative chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic cell rescue in the management of childhood high-grade astrocytomas?
Massimino M et al.Highgrade or malignant glioma represent 10% of pediatric brain tumors and are, taken as a whole, the second more frequent malignant histotype after medulloblastoma. Apart from a complete excision followed by full dose local radiotherapy,...
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Benefit set for Waupun area cancer victim
Friends of a Waupun area woman battling cancer will host a benefit Saturday, Feb.20, in Fond du Lac to help she and her husband deal with medical bills and related expenses. Katie Boyke Grinstead of Fond du Lac organized the 'Kickin' Cancer' benefit as a...
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Whole-Genome Profiling of Pediatric Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas Highlights Platelet-Derived Growth Facto
Maryam Zarghooni, Ute Bartels, Eric Lee, Pawel Buczkowicz, Andrew Morrison, Annie Huang, Eric Bouffet, and Cynthia Hawkins* From the Divisions of Pathology and Haematology and Oncology, The Labatt Brain Tumor Research Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children; and...
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Teva wins court battle with Merck
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.and subsidiary Barr Laboratories Inc. got a green light from a federal court today to sell a generic version of Merck & Co. Inc.'s brain cancer drug, Temodar. A judge in U.S. District Court in Delaware ruled...
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U.S. District Court Rules Against Merck in TEMODAR (temozolomide) Patent Lawsuit
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck & Co., Inc.announced today that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ruled against the company in a patent infringement suit against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. "We are very...
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C.J. Evans won't let cancer get the better of him
Evans does not fear the future.In fact, he is looking forward to it. has brain cancer, specifically anaplastic astrocytoma grade 3. That usually means less than 40 percent chance of survival. To C.J., the odds are in his favor. I feel good,...
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