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Brain tumors are devastating depending on their malignancy and also their propensity to cause neurological deficits which may cause permanent disability. Malignant brain tumors can occur at all ages [1-2] and are associated with poor prognosis. Surgery forms the mainstay of treatment for brain tumors [2-5]. It is well known that significant tumor decompression is associated with a relatively favourable prognosis [6-10]. An important challenge in brain tumor surgery is the accurate recognition of

Ovarian Cancer Cancer is nothing to joke about. There are many different types of cancers that can kill you or your family. Some people fight it and win or they lose. Some cancers are hereditary or it happens all of a sudden. Ovarian Cancer is also called cancer of the Ovaries or “The Silent Killer”. What is Ovarian Cancer Ovarian Cancer is the type of cancer that starts in the ovaries. In the Reproductive System, for females, there are two ovaries. The ovaries are about the size of an almond, they

Abstract: RapidArc is an advanced technology which is used to deliver intensity modulated radiation therapy(IMRT) and is often used to treat head, prostate, and neck tumors and other cancerous tumors. This is done by using photons which are generated by medical linear accelerators, it is very fast and precise, it is also capable of protecting the healthy tissues while focusing the radiation on the tumor. each treatment ranges between 1 to 2 min to complete, hence it reduces the amount of exposure

1.2 History of cancer 1.2.1 Oldest descriptions of cancer Humans and other animals have had cancer from a period of major. So it’s no wonder that from a long time ago people have written around cancer. Some of the first indication of cancer is found among fossilized bone tumors, human mummies in ancient Egypt, and ancient manuscripts. Tumors suggestive of the bone cancer called osteosarcoma have been found in mummies a lot. Also Bony skull damage as realized in cancer of the head and neck has been

The purpose of this study was to explore the use of infrared micro spectroscopy, a molecular imaging technique, as an adjunct screening tool for cancers such as oral squamous cell carcinoma. Oral squamous cell carcinoma is an invasive group of head and neck cancers, primarily originating in the epithelial layer of oral mucosa as a premalignant lesion. These premalignant lesions, if diagnosed prior to transformation into squamous cancer, could be treated with minimally invasive procedures and in many

Clinicopathological spectrum of mitral valve myxoma Aguilar C, Espinoza-Alva D, Chavez J, Segura P. Abstract: Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart. Although these tumors have been reported in all cardiac chambers, myxomas arising from heart valves are extremely rare. Herein, we report a new case of a patient with mitral valve myxoma, as well as review 89 reported cases of these tumors in the literature. Mitral valve myxomas often occur in middle age patients, with slight

There is another classification of pancreatic tumor help in decision making of management. This classification depends on the possibility of surgical removal of the tumor: in this way, tumors are judged to be "resectable", "borderline resectable" or "unresectable" (American Cancer Society, 2014). AJCC stages I and II defines the disease without spread to large blood vessels or distant organs such as the liver or lungs with possibility of surgical resection of the tumor (Bond-Smith et al., 2012)

In recent years, treatment options for advanced solid tumors have significantly advanced.1,2 Patients now routinely have their tumors genotyped in order to identify genomic markers that can allow their treatment to be personalized with targeted therapies that are less toxic and more effective. Prior studies have found that up to 64% of patients have these oncogenic drivers, and patients with these drivers in their tumors live longer when they are treated with targeted therapy.1 The Profile project

Cancer is a general name given to many diseases. It causes when the abnormal cells gets out of control and invade healthy cells in the body. Cancer cells are developed within the body not from outside. In the American Cancer Society states that cancer cells starts growing when the growth of the cells gets out of control. Compare to normal cells, they don’t die instead continues to grow which is the beginning of a person diagnosed with cancer. They become cancer cells because of their DNA changes

Background Information Chromogranin A belongs to granin family. It is an acidic glycoprotein found in the secretory vesicles of endocrine and neurons cells. Several functional peptides such as pancreastatin, vasostatin, parastatin and catestatin are believed to have originated from Chromogranin A. These peptides lessen the neuroendocrine function of autocrine and paracrine. Other peptides that originate from Chromogranin A but have uncertain function include WE-14, chromostatin and GE-25 (Helman