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Men More Likely than Women to Leave Sick Spouse

Written by Lynette Summerill on November 19, 2009 - 3:17am

When Anna received the dreaded call from her doctor in May 2008 that she had breast cancer she thought that was worst day of her life. She was wrong. Just a month later her husband of eleven years left home forever leaving Anna to care for their eight-year-old daughter and undergo treatment alone.

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Childhood Cancer Survivors Experience Suicidal Thoughts Decades After Diagnosis

Written by Lynette Summerill on November 3, 2009 - 7:37am

Adult survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, even decades after their cancer treatments ended, according to a study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists.

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Childhood Brain Cancer Causes Other Long-Term Problems

November 2, 2009 - 7:23am

MONDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Childhood brain cancer survivors have ongoing cognitive problems and achieve lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings and survivors of other types of cancer, a U.S. study has found.

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Top 10 Types of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors

Written by Elizabeth Stann... on October 19, 2009 - 8:15pm

Brain cancer is a very serious cancer diagnosis that no one wants to hear. While there are hundreds of brain and spinal cord tumors, some occur more frequently than others.

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Exercise in Adolescence May Cut Risk of Deadly Brain Tumor

October 6, 2009 - 12:16pm

TUESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Exercising during adolescence may help guard against a deadly form of brain tumor in adulthood, new research suggests.

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Focused Radiation Protects Tumor Patients' Brain Function

October 5, 2009 - 7:30am

MONDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Brain tumor patients experience more learning and memory problems when whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) is added to standard stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), researchers have found.

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Understanding Brain Surgery

Written by Elizabeth Stann... on August 31, 2009 - 6:45pm

Last August, my mother underwent an eight hour surgery to remove an olfactory neuroblastoma that had spread from her nasal cavity to her frontal lobe. A few weeks after the surgery, an infection formed where the tumor had been, and her forehead was removed. During the second week of September, she will be undergoing another round of surgeries to remove metastases in the lymph nodes and put in a new forehead.

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Does Cell Phone Use Increase Your Risk of Brain Cancer?

Written by Elizabeth Stann... on August 19, 2009 - 6:25pm

Questions about the dangers of cell phone use have made their way through the media. Since the causes of brain cancer are not known, it would make sense that an electronic device that emits signals might have an impact on your brain.

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Radiation for Brain Tumors May Affect Cognition

August 10, 2009 - 12:41pm

FRIDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Even at low doses, radiation therapy for low-grade brain tumors can cause progressive decline in cognitive functioning, a new study reports.

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Brain Scan May Help Predict Cancer Drug Response

July 30, 2009 - 12:42pm

THURSDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- A new way to predict which brain cancer patients will respond to the drug Avastin has been developed by U.S. researchers.

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Study Suggests Link Between Cell Phones and Brain Tumors

TUESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The latest study focusing on a possible cell phone-brain tumor connection finds a weak potential link between the two. A review of existing research on the ...

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Read the Latest Medical News

Men More Likely than Women to Leave Sick Spouse

Childhood Cancer Survivors Experience Suicidal Thoughts Decades After Diagnosis

Childhood Brain Cancer Causes Other Long-Term Problems

Top 10 Types of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors

Exercise in Adolescence May Cut Risk of Deadly Brain Tumor

Focused Radiation Protects Tumor Patients' Brain Function

Understanding Brain Surgery

Does Cell Phone Use Increase Your Risk of Brain Cancer?

Radiation for Brain Tumors May Affect Cognition

Brain Scan May Help Predict Cancer Drug Response

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