Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...older men). The earnest side of my brain--the part that thinks Al Gore will make a darn fine President--even feels that these films should be applauded for trying to treat death as something sacred without asking us to watch some Oscar-trolling star die of a brain tumor. But if you're going to treat death as something more than an excuse for a kinesthetic jolt, if you're going to go ahead and push these kinds of audience buttons and make people cry (me anyway), it would be nice if you had something to say beyond...
Brain surgery without blood? Sounds like science fiction, but research shows that an instrument called a gamma knife can safely--and bloodlessly--shrink acoustic neuromas, one of the most common forms of benign brain tumor. The "knife" delivers a onetime dose of radiation that's shaped to the exact parameters of the targeted tumor...
...experiments, Folkman used a technique that cuts off a tumor's blood supply by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that serve...
...decade ago, when Folkman found a drugthat successfully stifled angiogenesis andresulted in marked reduction in tumor size, thescientific world began to pay attention...
...patients is a bit like Bill Gates debugging code on a Windows program. Still, it's something he does one month every year, usually in June, like most other doctors at Duke. Right now he's checking on the progress of James McAllister, 73, who has a spinal tumor. McAllister is doing well enough to leave a high-cost intensive-care ward soon for rehabilitation. "That's better for him," says Snyderman. "And cheaper...