Category: tumor

Study: A New Method for Starving Deadly Brain Tumors to Eradicate Them

A finding from Tel Aviv University has revealed a new remarkable method that can starve a type of devastating brain tumor—glioblastoma—to death. The study explains that glioblastoma grows in the brain because of two mechanisms. These mechanisms play significant roles in accelerating the tumor growth. The first mechanism is the one that protects cancer cells…


Vietnamese Baby With Facial Tumor Gets Adopted in the US, Reunites With Birth Parents at 18

A Vietnamese baby born with a large facial tumor, who was given up for adoption, has reunited with his birth parents at the age of 18 after growing up in California. Sam Ettore was born in Phu Rieng, Vietnam, with a benign cavernous hemangioma covering half his face. He was transferred to a hospital in the…


Naturally Produced Proteins a Potential Therapy for Lung Cancer Patients

A study on dogs, conducted by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has found human immune proteins to be moderately successful in controlling lung cancers without causing major sensitivities and toxicities, showing potential for the protein’s use in humans. Surgical oncologist Dr. Robert J. Canter and canine oncologist Robert B. Rebhun co-authored the study,…


Brain Tumor Survivor’s Gesture Helps Little Girl Selling Rocks to Pay for Cat Food

A brain tumor survivor saw a chance to do good when she came across a child selling rocks. Offering to buy four instead of one, she reduced the child to tears, and through her generous gesture allowed the little girl to keep her beloved pet cat. Mom of four Jodi Orgill Brown of Ogden, Utah,…


Jeff Bridges Says Tumor Shrank, COVID ‘In Rear View Mirror’

Jeff Bridges says his cancer is in remission and his COVID-19 case is “in the rearview mirror.” The actor shared the good news on his website on Monday, saying his tumor shrank from 12 inches to the size of a marble. But in an update he said he wrote back in March and is sharing…


Jeff Bridges Says Tumor Shrank, COVID-19 ‘In Rear View Mirror’

Jeff Bridges says his cancer is in remission and his COVID-19 case is “in the rearview mirror.” The actor shared the good news on his website on Monday, saying his tumor shrank from 12 inches to the size of a marble. But in an update he said he wrote back in March and is sharing…


Can Cell Phone Radiation Damage Your DNA?

Do mobile phones cause brain tumors? Whenever a trillion-dollar industry is involved—whether it’s Big Food, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, or Big Telecom—there’s so much money that sometimes the science can get manipulated. When it comes to the potential human health effects of cell phone use, certainly, you might end up with a crick in your…


Mom With ‘Incurable’ Breast Cancer Opts for Alternative Treatments, Sees Tumor Shrink

A UK mother battling “incurable” breast cancer has turned to alternative therapies for relief. And it has shown some success. Since introducing vitamins, cannabis CBD oil, mistletoe injections, and a strict vegan diet into her regimen, she has seen her tumor recede. Holly Sherris, from Ingleby Barwick in North Yorkshire, hopes for as much time…