Science news articles about 'brain metastases'

Lapatinib reduces the number of large brain metastases in a mouse model of metastatic breast cancer, relative to untreated mice, researchers report.

... Ph.D., presented a novel theory about why brain metastases are resistant to chemotherapy. "Astrocytes are spider-like ... 100,000 new cases of metastatic brain cancer each year. By comparison, primary ...

... a single brain metastasis that is not suitable for surgery or radiosurgery, in patients with multiple brain metastases and in those whose cancer is spreading elsewhere in the body. "However, its ...

... , colorectal, kidney and lung in 2009. More than 80,000 of those patients will have between one and three brain metastases. Over the last decade, SRS, which uses high-doses of targeted x-rays, has ...

... , colorectal, kidney and lung in 2008. More than 80,000 of those patients will have between one and three brain metastases. Over the last decade, SRS, which uses high-doses of targeted x-rays, has ...

... ANG1005, is safe and well tolerated in patients with brain cancer treated to date. ANG1005 consists ... 22 patients with advance solid tumors with brain metastases showed that doses of ANG1005 up to 500 ...

... treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer reduced the risk of metastases ... cancer, patients are living longer and we are seeing more brain metastases," says study author Elizabeth Gore ...

... performed analyses on both primary tumors and brain metastases. They found higher levels of Hexokinase 2 in ... high levels of Hexokinase 2 expression in their brain metastasis was 9.6 months compared ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The drug vorinostat is able to cross the blood-brain barrier and reduce the development of large metastatic tumors in mice brains by 62 percent when compared to mice that did not ...

... M.D., co-director of the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital ... 10 years, there has been an explosion of new treatments for brain metastases: surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery ...

... lung cancer. The risk of cancer developing in the brain increases as people with non-small cell ... PCI have a significantly decreased risk of developing brain metastases by 10 percent (from 18 percent ...

... limbic area are irradiated along with the rest of the brain, the treatment often causes memory lapses ... whether in fact it can both prevent or treat brain metastases and minimize long-term neurocognitive ...

... . Study results show that while preventative brain radiation for patients with nonsmall cell lung ... cancer -- does reduce the chance of developing brain metastases, it impacts some short-term and long- ...

... a higher dose of lapatinib was required. Lapatinib did not completely prevent the formation of brain metastases, suggesting that some of the tumor cells are resistant to the drug. "We propose a ...

... treat bipolar mood disorder, also protects the brain from damage that occurs during radiation treatments. ... treatment in patients with low-grade glioma or brain metastases from small cell lung cancer. ...