News tagged with neurofibromatosis type 2
Anti-angiogenesis treatment improves hearing in some NF2 patients
Treatment with the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab improved hearing and alleviated other symptoms in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). In a paper to appear in the July 23 New England Journal of Medicine, which ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Researchers link protein to tumor growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins researchers working on mice have discovered a protein that is a major target of a gene that, when mutated in humans, causes tumors to develop on nerves associated with hearing, as well as cataracts ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Merlin protein found to control liver stem cells, prevent tumor development
A protein known to be involved in a rare hereditary cancer syndrome may have a role in the regulation of liver stem cells and the development of liver cancer. In the August 15 issue of Genes & Development, a Massachusetts Genera ...
Aug 12, 2010 |
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UC center chosen to study auditory brain stem implants
If a siren sounded but you were deaf, might you still be able to hear the sound?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Tumor mechanism identified
Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth (UK), the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Cornell University in New York, Weil Medical College in New York and the Center for Neural Tumour Research ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Minimally invasive surgery removes sinus tumor without facial disfiguration
Only about one in 2,000 people in the United States get a sinus tumor, but Johnnie Wilcox was one of the unfortunate few.
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Loss of tumor supressor gene essential to transforming benign nerve tumors into cancers
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center showed for the first time that the loss or decreased expression of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN plays a central role in the malignant transformation of benign nerve ...
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Fishing for microdeletions that predispose an embryo to develop cancer syndromes in later life
Researchers have used a common laboratory technique for the first time to detect genetic changes in embryos that could predispose the resulting children to develop certain cancer syndromes. Current preimplantation genetic ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Gleevec holds potential as first drug to successfully treat neurofibromatosis
Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine report that the anti-cancer drug Gleevec holds out promise to become the first effective treatment for neurofibromatosis, a genetic disease that has resisted treatments ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Cancer requires support from immune system to develop, researchers report
Tumors that grow around nerves in a rare genetic disease need cooperation from cells from the immune system in order to grow, reports a team of scientists, including researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Protein key to neuro-regeneration
Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England, University College London, the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan and Cancer Research UK, have for the first time identified a protein that ...
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May 20, 2008 |
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