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11-year-old becomes collector for a day in Ahmedabad
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], September 19 (ANI): An 11-year-old girl, Flora Asodia, suffering from a brain tumour, was made collector for a day on Saturday in Ahmedabad.
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Woman recites Hanuman Chalisa while undergoing brain tumor surgery at AIIM
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI): Devotional verses from the Hanuman Chalisa recited by a 24-year-old patient resounded inside an operating room at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here as doctors performed a complex surgery to successfully remove her brain tumour.
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Patients with noncancerous brain tumors affecting hearing may benefit from
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): The findings of a recent study indicated that the blood pressure drug losartan can benefit patients suffering from neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). It's a hereditary condition associated with vestibular schwannomas or noncancerous tumours along the nerves in t
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Antihypertension drug may help patients with noncancerous brain tumors aff
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): A new study indicated that the blood pressure drug losartan may benefit patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a hereditary condition associated with vestibular schwannomas, or noncancerous tumors along the nerves in the brain that are involved with hea
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Researchers engineer cells to destroy malignant tumour leaving other cells
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): During a new study, researchers at McMaster University developed promising new cancer immunotherapy by using cancer-killing cells, genetically engineered outside the body to find and destroy malignant tumors.
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Simple urine test might be helpful in early brain tumor detection
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Nagoya [Japan], June 17 (ANI): The findings of a recent study by Nagoya University researchers suggest that microRNAs in urine could be a promising biomarker to diagnose brain tumors.
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Kauvery Hospital successfully performs liver transplant on 25-year-old wom
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 16 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospitals, one of the leading healthcare chains in Tamil Nadu, successfully treated a 25-year-old woman with a rare liver tumor at Kauvery Hospital, Chennai.
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Researchers develop tech to predict chemotherapy effectiveness
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 4 (ANI): Combining data from tumor biomarkers, ultrasound, and ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography (DOT) after a patient's first cycle of pre-surgical neoadjuvant chemotherapy provided a highly accurate prediction of how the tumor was responding to the treatmen
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Kauvery Hospital successfully removes a rare tumor from a major blood vess
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 11 (ANI/News Voir): Kauvery Hospital, one of the leading healthcare chains in Tamil Nadu, successfully removed a tumor from the inferior vena cava (the largest vein in the body that passes through the liver), of a 56-year-old woman from Salem.
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Switch of breast tumors to HER2-low might provide greater therapeutic opti
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Lugano [Switzerland], May 9 (ANI): The finding that breast tumours can evolve to express low HER2 potentially widens the number of patients who can benefit from new investigational agents, typically novel antibody-drug conjugate therapies, that are currently in clinical trials for HER2-low t
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Delhi: 12-year-old girl with five kg tumour gets new life after surgery
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): A 12-year-old girl from Delhi got a new life after a team of doctors of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital removed two football-sized tumours weighing five kg from her stomach which she was carrying for the past few years.
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Study finds why some cancer drugs may be ineffective
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 1 (ANI): A possible explanation for why many cancer drugs that kill tumor cells in mouse models won't work in human trials has been found by researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics and McGove
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