When I got this opportunity at eBay, Griff was running the brain tumor program at Harvard.
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Shortly after, doctors diagnosed a brain tumor -- a malignant glioma in his left parietal lobe.
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The brain tumor is highly resistant to standard treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
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He got himself to an emergency room, and a brain tumor was diagnosed in late March.
The brain tumor research center at Duke is conducting several clinical trials in malignant glioma.
O'Connor told reporters Thursday that for a while, she didn't know she had a brain tumor.
Her attorney said a brain tumor affected Maureen O'Connor's judgment in playing video poker.
According to the singer's representative, Crow was diagnosed with meningioma, a common type of brain tumor.
Visiting old friends, she learned former next-door neighbor Bryan Freund also has a brain tumor, an oligodendroglioma.
Organizations training support-group leaders include WomenHeart, the American Brain Tumor Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
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He had complained of persistent headaches, and his mother in particular worried that he might have a brain tumor.
Reality called again five years ago when doctors found a brain tumor, which left her partially blind and deaf.
One of the first children Nares helped was a 1-year-old boy with a brain tumor who required frequent chemotherapy treatments.
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Additional studies will evaluate the effectiveness of the pill in glioblastoma, a lethal brain tumor, small-cell lung cancer and prostate cancer.
The outlook is normally grim for children such as Priscilla, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was 7.
"It's about 20 years later, me coming back from the brain tumor and doing things I want to do, " she said.
"In every brain tumor we have looked at, in both adults and kids, we are able to find these cells, " Dirks says.
The doctor admitted that a brain tumor was an extremely remote possibility.
She also sent the President friendly notes and asked him to arrange a visit for a friend of hers with a brain tumor.
Today's economies (especially the U.S.) are like a patient who has suffered cancer, leukemia and a brain tumor all at the same time.
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When he learned his daughter, Alison, had a malignant brain tumor, nothing else mattered to him but to find a cure for her.
Sudden changes in mood or personality, visual hallucinations and alternations in smell, taste or tactile senses could signal a brain tumor or other abnormality.
"It's exciting to have a race, " says Dr. Tom Mikkelsen, codirector of the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
She told him that in her entire career she had never seen third-line chemotherapy produce a significant response in his type of brain tumor.
New research needs to be done to better define which patients benefit, said Rakesh Jain, a brain tumor expert at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Meningiomas represent about one-third of all primary brain tumors and are most frequently found in middle-aged women, the American Brain Tumor Association's website states.
In fact, Vaneman, a retired professor of Shakespeare and medieval literature, had brain cancer: a glioblastoma or GBM, the most common type of brain tumor.
Hopkins' family contacted Livestrong after her late husband, Marty, found out he had a brain tumor, and she said the staff there was very responsive.
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