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Researchers opting for the first path hope to devise an exact mechanism for the initiation and the growth of a tumor in the hope of blocking the process in its early phases...
Included in current lines of research are the analysis of varying stages of tumor development, ranging from genes present before the tumor is formed to the development of blood vessels which spur the growth of the tumor to the exact location and movement of the tumor...
...Over the telephone she told me. It looks like you have a tumor in your pituitary gland, but it's really no big deal," Smith says. "It's hard for someone who has just been told she has a brain tumor to comprehend the words, 'no big deal.' I was very upset with the way the information was presented...
Stories like those of Smith, who had to wait six days to find out--over the phone--that she had a brain tumor, are indicative of the lack of sensitivity that accompany UHS's access problem. UHS officials say they would not discuss specific cases with the Crimson. Some doctors agree that sensitivity at the health service needs improvement...
...with more and more clever approaches." He points to one brain-cancer trial that received initial approval just last week. Researchers will splice a herpes simplex gene into a mouse-leukemia virus that has been rendered harmless by genetic engineering, and insert the altered virus directly into the brain tumor. The virus, as is its nature, will promptly invade the nucleus of the tumor cells, endowing them with the herpes gene and making them susceptible to ganciclovir, an anti-herpes drug. The patient will then be given the drug, which should kill both the virus and the tumor cells...