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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. and ATLANTA, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 4, a 69-year-old male patient was Riverside & University of Virginia Radiosurgery Center's 1,000(th) patient to be treated since the facility opened in 2006. Clinicians used their Leksell Gamma Knife® 4C to treat a metastatic melanoma in the patient's brain. Coincidentally, the patient also had undergone radiosurgery earlier for lung and chest wall nodules, benefiting that time by Riverside's Elekta Synergy® S....

Researchers have found no clear link between mobile phones and brain cancer, although researchers did say that further studies are necessary due to increasingly intensive use. "The study doesn't reveal an increased risk, but we can't conclude that there is no risk because there are enough findings that suggest a possible risk," the study's chief author, Elisabeth Cardis, told AFP.The Interphone study results included 2,708 cases of glioma tumors and 2,409 meningioma tumors in 13...

LONDON, May 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The GSMA welcomes the publication by the INTERPHONE study group of the results for the combined analysis for glioma and meningioma in the International Journal of Epidemiology. In the press release announcing the paper Dr Christopher Wild, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said: 'An increased risk of brain cancer is not established from the data from Interphone. However, observations at the highest level of...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On the morning of December 17, 2009, UPMC physicians used Gamma Knife® surgery to treat the center's 10,000th patient, an 81-year-old male with a tumor deep in his brainstem, a site where traditional surgery would have been impossible. Gamma Knife surgery is performed using Elekta's Leksell Gamma Knife system, which directs up to 201 pencil-thin beams of therapeutic radiation precisely on brain tumors and other targets in the head. The 10,000th...

Only about one in 2,000 people in the United States get a sinus tumor, but Johnnie Wilcox was one of the unfortunate few.Ms. Wilcox's tumor was a classic case. She had few symptoms early on, and even those problems were mistaken for blocked sinuses."For several months, I could not breathe through the right side of my nose," recalled the resident of Goldthwaite, a town of less than 2,000 in the heart of Texas' Hill Country. "I felt a fullness, but I didn't take that as something...

There was no substantial change in brain tumor incidence among adults 5 to 10 years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication published online December 3 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.Although cell phone use has been proposed as a risk factor for brain tumors, a biological mechanism to explain this association is not known.Isabelle Deltour, Ph.D., of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, in Copenhagen, and...

Treating a common brain tumor with multiple sessions of radiation appears to result in less brain swelling than treating the tumor once with a high dose of radiation, say researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Hospital.Benign brain tumors known as meningiomas are often treated with a single, high dose of radiation using stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). At Georgetown, SRS is conducted using CyberKnife. A single SRS treatment leads to good tumor...

Optic nerve sheath meningiomas are rare tumors that are traditionally treated with surgery, which is typically a blinding procedure. However, researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have found that a specialized type of radiation therapy offers the same local control, with fewer adverse effects on vision. The investigators presented their data at the 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting (Abstract #2676/B-261).Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy is a more precise, targeted type of...

U.S. scientists say they've discovered a gene believed to be involved in meningiomas tumors might not be as major a factor as previously believed. North Carolina State University researchers compared human and canine genomes and discovered the gene commonly thought to cause tumors that affect the meninges, or thin covering of the human brain, might not be as important as thought for tumor formation. Humans suffering from meningioma frequently lose one copy of nearly the entire length of...

A recent study found that women who work regularly around weed killers could be at an increased risk of a certain type of brain cancer.Initially, researchers found no added risk due to job-exposure to pesticides or herbicides.However, researchers reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology after closer examination of the data collected from more than 1,400 U.S. adults, they found that women who had on-the-job exposure to the plant-killing chemicals were at twice the risk of developing...