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• n  an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

• The senator's seizure is diagnosed as a malignant tumor.
• In preliminary trials, a potential new drug for advanced prostate cancer has shrunk tumors in the lab and reduced signs of the disease in patients with resistant disease.
• Black's medical skills are backed by tools ranging from X rays to powerful diagnostic and treatment devices like 3-D MRI scanners and noninvasive tumor killers.

• tumour
• neoplasm

News & Articles

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• American Brain Tumor Association’s 2013 Patient & Family Conference Aims to Engage and Empower
  Two-day event brings brain tumor community together to learn from and with each other. (PRWeb June 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10855169.htm
  June 21, 2013 - PRWeb
• Realistic 3-d tumor created through tissue engineering using silk scaffolds
  Medical researchers have developed a highly realistic three-dimensional (3-D) tumor model. As it replicates the conditions in the body, it is able to track the effectiveness and progress of drug therapy. Their model has the potential to be a more effective method for studying tumors than in-vitro and even in-vivo methods.
  June 20, 2013 - Science Daily
• Virus combination effective against deadly brain tumor, Moffitt Cancer Center study shows
  ( H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute ) A combination of the myxoma virus and the immune suppressant rapamycin can kill glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and deadliest malignant brain tumor, according to Moffitt Cancer Center research. Peter A. Forsyth, M.D., of Moffitt's Neuro-Oncology Program, says the combination has been shown to infect and kill both brain cancer stem ...
  June 20, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Seve Ballesteros in CNN
  On Sunday, July 27, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. I have been admitted to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where doctors will soon begin appropriate treatment. I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God... Robert Novak http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNELqpCtHsttIgEcSMTXvARk7iqYhg FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392523,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEIiaFCgjhIAuYt9zVn8myp0k8eNQ Jul 28, 2008 102506 136097 tumor Thanks to them I will be able to play the mulligan of my life, which I expect to enjoy at my best," Ballesteros said. "There is a long recovery time ahead and I shall keep fighting with patience and determination against the brain tumor that...
• Dudley Hart in USA Today
  It definitely scared me,Hart said. "I kept looking at those kids and I can't imagine ...... God forbid, when they get that tumor out, it comes back bad and they don't have their mom around. That fortunately wasn't the issue. You have a lot...