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Bone Drug Suppresses Wandering Tumor Cells In Breast Cancer Patients And May Reduce Metastatic Disease by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy

Posted Thu 03 Jun 2010 5:23am . When the drug was given along with chemotherapy for three months before breast cancer surgery, it reduced the number of women who had tumor cells in their bone marrow at the time... Breast cancer cells taken from a patient’s bone marrow. The cancer cells are stained to make them easy to spot among the normal cells of the bone marrow. The bone Read on »

Bone Stem Cells Located at Base of Shin Bone by Northcoast Footcare Facebook

Posted Thu 29 Apr 2010 7:26am A team of researchers at the National Institute of Health have located bone generating stem cells in the end of the shin bone and the spine in mice. The researchers also identified genetic triggers and factors which control the growth of the stem cells. Researchers have know that bone marrow stem cells can develop into [...] Read on »

The Frontal Bone’s Connected to the Parietal Bone’s Connected to the Occipital Bone… by Emily Posted Wed 15 Sep 2010 12:00am Oh my goodness, I’ve my first Anatomy quiz in 9hours and I am not ready! A migraine hit last night and stopped my study session cold. I’ve got to hurry to bed so I can keep learning in the morning. Breakfast. Three local prune plums from the farmers’ market, and a WW Sandwich Thin with 2T Wegman’s chunky pb and Croft ... Read on »

Relatives of people with brain tumors at higher risk for developing the same type of tumor by Kathlyn S. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 5:07pm A new study by researchers at the University of Utah found that people with a family history of cancerous brain tumors appear to be at higher risk of developing the same kind of tumors compared to people with no such family history. The researchers reviewed the medical records of 1,401 people from Utah with primary brain tumors -- either Read on »

Beware the hidden tibia plateau fracture by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 11 Feb 2010 12:00am Find the fracture in this patient with blunt knee trauma. As a general rule, plain films are insensitive in ruling out orthopedic injuries. One particularly tricky area is the knee. This 2-view knee series above is normal. Did you know that the sensitivity of picking up knee fractures is as low as 79% with a 2-view series and 85% with ... Read on »

Bones, Bones, Brittle Little Bones. by Poker Face Patient Expert

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 5:08pm Today my talking Yoda died. Well his batteries did. My future is over! I can no longer squeeze his hands to have my questions answered! I need to fix him. Anyway, life is funny. I feel so utterly confused about so many things. I think when I was 9 I just imagined my life being a lot different than it is. I figured I would have graduated college by ... Read on »

ADT, bone architecture, and “virtual bone biopsies” by Dr. Arnon Krongrad Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 11 Oct 2010 12:00am months of ADT The “distal radius” means the lower end of the thinner of the two bones in your arm below the elbow. The “distal tibia” refers to the lower end of the larger... at the tibia. Estradiol levels were not. Cortical bone is the hard, outer shell of the bone, whereas trabecular bone is the softer, “spongy” inner bone structure. Hamilton and her Read on »

Tumor speciation by Mark Pool, MD Posted Tue 10 Mar 2009 12:00am Dr. Jules Berman recently blogged about tumor speciation which not only is a brief summary of his book Neoplasms: Principles of Development and Diversity but also frames a discussion of the important question of why are there different types (species) of recognizable tumors in specific anatomical sites yet each individual tumor within Read on »

Interferon for giant cell tumors by Mark Levin Posted Sun 20 Dec 2009 6:19am Giant cell tumors of the bone have 3 major cell types: 1) proliferating mononuclear cells thought to be the neoplastic element of the tumor, 2) nonproliferating mononuclear.... A 2002 series of 8 tumors concluded that: " Antiangiogenic therapy, in combination with curettage, is a promising strategy for treatment of aggressive giant cell tumors Read on »