Chemo best for child brain cancer
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Chemotherapy treatments for children with brain tumours reduces long-term damage, say researchers.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have discovered that a gene that triggers the growth of stem cells during early brain development is also key to the growth of deadly adult brain tumors called gliomas.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- &quot;Chemo brain,&quot; characterized by chronic problems with memory and attention, afflicts a sizeable minority of cancer survivors.
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Treatment with methylphenidate, better known as Ritalin, may reduce attentional and social problems in kids who've survived leukemia or brain tumors, according to researchers.
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Genentech Inc colon and lung cancer drug Avastin, along with standard chemotherapy, increases survival rates of patients with a very deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Cooling the head with a special  cap may help reduce brain damage in infants with neonatal  encephalopathy, a serious neurologic condition that occurs in  the first days of life, new research shows. This treatment  seems to work for most infants, provided their condition is not  too severe.
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Scientists have developed a treatment which may be effective against the most common and deadly form of brain cancer.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of the drug bevacizumab (brand name Avastin) and the standard chemotherapy agent irinotecan may benefit patients with a type of deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), says a Duke University pilot study.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A laboratory-engineered virus can successfully slow the growth of two types of hard-to-treat pediatric tumors without harming healthy tissue, a new study shows.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pediatric leukemia drug developed by Southern Research Institute of Birmingham. It is the first new treatment in a decade for children who have been stricken with the life-threatening disease.
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Researchers discover stem cells that initiate and maintain the growth of brain cancer tumors. The study could lead to new treatments for many types of cancer. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Cooling the head with a special cap may help reduce brain damage in infants with neonatal encephalopathy, a serious neurologic condition that occurs in the first days of life, new research shows. This treatment seems to work for most infants, provided their condition is not too severe.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- A breakthrough in finding better treatments against a rare childhood leukemia has gotten a big boost from research in a completely different field -- Alzheimer's disease.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) --  Dutch scientists have discovered that children who have cancer also have more body anomalies, such as asymmetric limbs and curvature of the spine.
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Unlike cranial radiation,  chemotherapy for children with a certain type of leukemia does  not appear to have harmful long-term effects on intelligence,  even at high doses, a new study shows.
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TUESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority of potentially harmful errors in chemotherapy for children with cancer do find their way to these young patients, a new study finds.  And they are more often caused by dispensing or administration mistakes than by prescribing mix-ups, the researchers found.
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CHICAGO  - Preventive radiation to the brain significantly reduces the risk of lung cancer spreading to this organ and improves survival, according to data presented in a session Monday at the 43rd annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.