All Entries Tagged With: "bone marrow"

Most often bones are the locations of tumors that are the consequence of metastasis of the cancer present in another organ like the breasts, lungs or the prostate. Cancers that originate in the bone such as primary bone cancer are quite rare occurrences. Bone tumors could be benign or malignant in nature. Benign bone tumors are more prevalent, however both kinds could proliferate leading to compression of healthy, normal bone tissue and sop up or substitute it with anomalous tissues. However, benign tumors do not proliferate and are atypically life-menacing. The most prevalent form of bone cancer is osteosarcoma that develops in newly formed tissue present in bones that are still growing. Another form of cancer is chondrosarcoma that develops in the cartilage. Ewing’s sarcoma originates  [...]

A novel leukemia research conducted in the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota reveals that those patients having acute leukemia when administered transplantation of 2 units of UCB or umbilical cord blood had extensive reduction in risk of the disease relapsing. This discovery shows promise in changing the present medical practice of employing a single UCB unit for treating patients having a high risk of relapse of leukemia and other kinds of cancers affecting the blood and bone marrow. Michael Verneris, M.D., and John Wagner, M.D., who have dedicated themselves to the research and treatment of infants having cancer, helmed the research team on this innovative study. The outcomes of this study are printed in the present edition of the medical journal ‘Blood’. This study was  [...]

Wilms’ Tumor is commonly treated using surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy that depends on the staging and overall condition of the child. Surgery Surgery is the most prevalent form of treatment for Wilms’ tumor wherein the doctor might remove the cancerous growth employing one of the below stated procedures. Partial Nephrectomy – This procedure is conducted for removal of the cancer and a section of the kidney that is situated around it.  It usually is done in just rare cases when there is damage done to the other kidney or has previously been taken out. Simple Nephrectomy – This procedure involves the complete removal of the kidney. The other kidney would then take on the role of purifying the blood. Radical Nephrectomy – In this procedure there is total removal  [...]