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...transplanted cells to regenerate a pancreas," says Owen Witte, director of UCLA's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, "we can measure in your blood if you're producing insulin, but we can't see whether the cells have grown or evaluate whether they might grow into a tumor." So scientists are seeking to develop marking systems that let them trace a transplant's performance...
...this line of argument is correct, then heating up other tumors - from, say, breast cancer or colon cancer - could help boost the effect of chemotherapy and radiation. Such so-called hyperthermia treatments have been tried in the past, with little success - in part because it was difficult to isolate the tumor from the normal tissue around it. But it's possible that new developments in nano-technology could change the picture...
...Researchers have developed tiny iron coils wrapped in a packaging of fatty molecules that respond to strong magnetic fields by heating up. For whatever reason, cancer cells seem to like these fatty iron coils. Get enough of the coils into a tumor and you might be able to basically cook it to death. The Hopkins authors argue it's worth a shot. Any practical applications would, however, be a long...
...hundred years ago or so this saying was true: "Who knows lues (or syphilis) knows medicine." That venereal disease, which most docs today have never once treated, was known as the great imitator - it could present itself as a fracture, a brain tumor, consumption (like TB), back pain or renal failure. By the 50s, 60s and 70s, American medicine had to deal with strong doses of ethyl alcohol, and the spectrum of alcohol-related diseases was nearly as broad as syphillis'. The stumble-bum from New York's Bowery was easy to see. The huge vascular operations...
...return after exams so we could reassess her stress and headaches. But the waking up at night bugged me. Most teenagers, once asleep, don't awaken easily. So again I ordered a CT scan "to be cautious," and again it proved a caution worth taking. Ashley's brain tumor required chemotherapy before neurosurgery, but she too has recovered well. She still gets headaches, however, because her sister won't get rid of the hamster, which is indeed the source of Ashley's allergies...