Neoplastic leptomeningitis presenting in a melanoma patient treated with ... 
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Melanoma represents one of the tumors with the highest incidence of leptomeningeal metastases. The BRAF inhibitors have recently been demonstrated to be effective on melanoma brain metastases harboring the V600EBRAF mutation.
Double-Barrel Tx Effective for Melanoma MedPage Today

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Reno CyberKnife focuses on education during Brain Tumor Awareness Month 
FoxReno.com
What patients may not know is that a large percentage of those diagnoses will be from metastatic tumors, tumors that develop from cancer cells that have spread from another part of the body. There are more than 120 different types of brain tumors, ...

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More Leukoencephalopathy With Whole-Brain Radiation vs SRS 
Medscape
May 1, 2012 (Miami, Florida) ? For patients with brain metastases from non?small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the risk for leukoencephalopathy was much lower if they were treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) alone than if SRS was combined with ...

 

Metastatic Melanoma: Timely Approval of Yervoy 
OncLive
When imaging studies revealed further metastasis, this time to the lung and brain, he underwent exploratory right thoracoscopy, right thoracotomy, and a superior segmentectomy. In March 2011 he began a combined regimen of oral thalidomide (Thalomid), ...

 

Olmsted Falls resident Susan Lewis says The Gathering Place is 'wonderfully ... 
Sun Star Courier
She was diagnosed with metastasis of melanoma, and doctors found spots on her liver, breast and brain. Lewis said sitting in her dermatologist's office, she was in a ?state of denial.? That is when her doctor suggested she consider going to The ...

 

Boehringer Ingelheim to present pivotal Phase III results for afatinib in ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
... versus Poster #15B investigator's choice of treatment in patients (pts) Date: Saturday, June 2 with HER2-positive breast cancer (BC) with Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT progressive brain metastases (BM) after trastuzumab or lapatinib-based therapy.
Pivotal study on afatinib may challenge current standard first line treatment1 ... National Post

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Geron Announces Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter 2012 Financial Results 
MarketWatch (press release)
GRN1005 is being evaluated in two Phase 2 clinical trials: brain metastases arising from breast cancer and brain metastases arising from non-small cell lung cancer. For more information about Geron, visit www.geron.com .

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Mind, Body and Cancer 
MarketWatch (press release)
Stress, pessimism and other emotional factors have been proven to play a role, increasing the risk of cancer, metastasis and early mortality. This is a double-whammy for cancer patients, who must overcome anxiety from the moment they are diagnosed.

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Cardinal has cyberknife surgey to remove tumor 
China Post
The China Post news staff--His Eminence Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-his (??????????) underwent a cyberknife operation yesterday afternoon at the Tri-Service General Hospital to remove tumor cell metastasis on his brain spread from his lungs, ...

 

This Month Last Year: Shire and Thermo Fisher's Acquisitions and Geron's hESC ... 
Genetic Engineering News
GRN1005, a peptide-drug conjugate designed to transport paclitaxel across the blood-brain barrier, targets low-density lipoprotein receptor-related proteins (LRPs), specifically LRP-1. GRN1005 is being evaluated in two Phase II trials: brain metastases ...