Pregnant Woman Undergoes “Kinder, Gentler” Brain Surgery at Saint John’s Health Center Neuroscience Institute by Surgeons Using Brain Port Device
April 19, 2010 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A unique device developed to make brain surgery easier and less traumatic has been successfully used on a patient who was pregnant and suffering from a potentially life-threatening brain cyst. The device, called a “Brain Port,” was pioneered by...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2010) — Childhood cancer survivors who had brain or other central nervous system cancers, or leukemia, achieve lower-than-expected educational success compared with the general public, according to an article published online January 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
This study was undertaken because previous studies on educational attainment among childhood cancer survivors were small, had contradictory findings, or were not population-based....
ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City Treating Pediatric Patients
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Children with cancer are now being accepted for treatment at the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma, where a wide range of tumors are treated with proton therapy, an alternative to X-ray radiation that spares healthy tissue and results in far fewer short- and long-term treatment side effects.
Survivors of childhood central nervous system malignancies had a higher risk for neurocognitive impairment that was associated with lower socioeconomic achievements in adulthood, according to recently published data.
As part of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study being conducted at nine major medical centers, researchers assessed neurocognitive functioning in 785 adult survivors of childhood CNS malignancies and compared them...
