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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: brain tumors + brain tumor + children  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/12/2008)


New York Times
A Conversation With Alfredo Qui?ones-Hinojosa A Surgeon?s Path ...
New York Times, United States -
I do about 230 to 240 brain tumor operations a year. The majority make it. Some have complications. And some ? 2 to 3 percent ? it takes awhile for the ...

Medicexchange
Brain Tumor Biomarker May Improve Patient Outcomes
Washington Post, United States - Apr 28, 2008
In 2005, about 43800 new cases of primary nonmalignant and malignant brain and CNS tumors were diagnosed in the United States, and about 12760 children and ...
Identification of Novel Tumor Biomarkers Holds Promise for ... Newswise (press release)
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Family eyes cure for 2-year-old?s brain tumor
Tonganoxie Mirror, KS - May 6, 2008
5 to Children?s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., where, after a CT scan, they were told that there was a two-inch tumor growing inside Kurtis? brain. ...

MLive.com
Otsego parents raising money for daughter's experimental cancer ...
MLive.com, MI -
Nationwide, about 3400 children are diagnosed with brain tumors each year, said Stacia Wagner, director of survivor programs at the Children's Brain Tumor ...
Television Actor Who Has Portrayed a Doctor and an Investigator ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - May 6, 2008
In addition, research is stymied by varieties of brain and spinal cord tumors and the challenges of collecting tumor samples from children. ...
Cyclists give rides to children with tumors
Pasadena Citizen, TX - May 2, 2008
Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer deaths in children, and four out of 10 children diagnosed with a brain tumor will die of this cancer within ...
Run for brain tumor research on Saturday
Marshalltown Times Republican, IA - May 7, 2008
The run will raise money for research for Pediatric Low Grade Brain Tumors. ?All the money is going strictly to research,? she said. ...
Sibling blankets ailing kids with handmade gift
Appleton Post Crescent,  USA - May 11, 2008
Emma, a kindergartner, was diagnosed in July with a benign brain tumor. She's undergone several surgeries and just finished 10 weeks of chemotherapy. ...
Walk today for brain tumor awareness
The News Journal, DE - May 3, 2008
About 190000 Americans are diagnosed yearly with brain tumors, News Journal archives say, and most aggressive types give patients a 4 percent chance of ...
Cancer researchers receive NIH grant to advance brain tumor ...
EurekAlert (press release), DC - Apr 24, 2008
?Current conventional therapies for malignant brain tumors, including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, are often unsatisfactory for controlling these ...
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Stereotactic Radiosurgery for the Definitive, Noninvasive Treatment of Brain Metastases -
E Alexander, TM Moriarty, RB Davis, PY Wen, HA … - jnci, 1995 - jnci.oxfordjournals.org
... The Brain Tumor Center of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital,
and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy ...

… resonance spectroscopy for differentiating recurrent or residual brain tumor from delayed cerebral … -
JS Taylor, JW Langston, WE Reddick, PB Kingsley, … - Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... spectroscopy (1H MRS) to differentiate prospectively between DN or recurrent/residual
tumor in a series of children treated for primary brain tumors with high ...

Factors affecting intellectual outcome in pediatric brain tumor patients. -
L Ellenberg, JG McComb, SE Siegel, S Stowe - Neurosurgery, 1987 - neurosurgery-online.com
... Abstract: A prospective study utilizing repeated intellectual testing was undertaken
in 73 children with brain tumors consecutively admitted to Childrens ...

… chemotherapy and bone marrow rescue for young children with newly diagnosed malignant brain tumors -
WP Mason, A Grovas, S Halpern, IJ Dunkel, J Garvin … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1998 - jco.ascopubs.org
... [PDF], Home page, Arch Neurol Home page RJ Packer Brain Tumors in Children Arch
Neurol, April 1, 1999; 56(4): 421 - 425. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF], ...

Children with brain tumor headaches. Distinguishing features -
PJ Honig, EB Charney - Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 1982 - Am Med Assoc
... Brain Tumors in Children: Initial Symptoms and Their Influence on the Time
Span Between Symptom Onset and Diagnosis Reulecke et al. ...

Evaluating Pediatric Brain Tumor Cellularity with Diffusion-Tensor Imaging -
KM Gauvain, RC McKinstry, P Mukherjee, A Perry, JJ … - American Journal of Roentgenology, 2001 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
... Diffusion Coefficients for Differentiation of Cerebellar Tumors in Children AJNR
Am. ... weighted and Perfusion MR Imaging for Brain Tumor Characterization and ...

Neuropsychological profile of children with neurofibromatosis, brain tumor, or both.
BD Moore 3rd, JL Ater, MN Needle, J Slopis, DR … - J Child Neurol, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... This study examines the relative contribution of neurofibromatosis and brain tumor
to the cognitive profile of children with neurofibromatosis. ...

Growth Hormone Treatment of Children with Brain Tumors and Risk of Tumor Recurrence 1 -
AJ Swerdlow, RE Reddingius, CD Higgins, HA … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2000 - Endocrine Soc
... 12 4444-4449 Copyright ? 2000 by The Endocrine Society Special Articles. Growth
Hormone Treatment of Children with Brain Tumors and Risk of Tumor Recurrence 1. ...

Brain tumor recurrence in children treated with growth hormone: the National Cooperative Growth … -
T Moshang Jr, AC Rundle, DA Graves, J Nickas, A … - J Pediatr, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1996 May;128(5 Pt 2):S4-7. Click here to read Brain tumor recurrence in children
treated with growth hormone: the National Cooperative Growth Study experience. ...

Cancer stem cells in nervous system tumors -
SK Singh, ID Clarke, T Hide, PB Dirks - Oncogene, 2004 - nature.com
... several groups have described the existence of a cancer stem cell population in
human brain tumors of different phenotypes from both children and adults. ...

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First Of Its Kind Report On How Children With Brain Tumors Perform At School
While children who have had brain tumors perform worse in school than healthy kids, grades in foreign language are the most affected and girls have a harder time than boys in getting good grades, according to a study published in the July 17, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers say this is the first time the actual grades and subjects of brain tumor survivors have been reported.

"These results will help us identify brain tumor survivors who are at greatest risk for school failure and may need remedial help as early as possible," said study author Päivi Lähteenmäki, MD, PhD, with Turku University Hospital in Turku, Finland.
For the study, researchers compared the ninth grade report cards of 300 children with previous brain tumors, which had been treated with surgery or radiation therapy, to 1,473 healthy children living in Finland.

The study found the average grades of children who have had a brain tumor were significantly lower in each school subject, and differed most in foreign language, especially for girls. More than 58 percent of female patients received grades below an eight (four = fail, 10 = excellent) in foreign language compared to 38 percent of healthy children. "It appears verbal performance is the area most seriously affected for brain tumor survivors." said Lähteenmäki. "This may be a reflection of a diminished ability to learn new information."

Lähteenmäki says girls may be more sensitive to the adverse effects of radiation therapy, which has been regarded as the main cause of cognitive decline.

The study also found 94 percent of brain tumor survivors completed the ninth grade of Finnish comprehensive school at the usual age. "These results are encouraging, considering a prior study in the United States showed brain tumor survivors were significantly less likely to finish high school compared to their siblings," said Lähteenmäki.

Brain tumors are the second most common form of cancer occurring in childhood, and the leading cause of cancer-related illness and death in this age group.

The study was supported by the Finnish Cancer Society and the Society for Turku University.

The American Academy of Neurology, an association of more than 20,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving patient care through education and research. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as stroke, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis.

For more information about the American Academy of Neurology, visit http://www.aan.com.

American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
1080 Montreal Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55116
United States
http://www.neurology.org
 
 
 
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