Glioblastoma multiforme

2-phase sequential technique employing a true vertex-field, which from previous discussions with my colleagues, have caused me to develop inherited negative opinions regarding its use. Patient History & Diagnosis As per WHO classification, Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) (Grade IV astrocytoma) is the most prevalent malignant brain tumour in adults accounting for 54% of all gliomas.(1, 2) It’s associated with poor-prognosis with approximately one-third of…

caused of. For example, Frankie L. Trull in his article, which calls “Animal Testing and Its Gifts to Humans” in Wall Street Journal states “Thanks to the work of scientists and physicians at Duke University, an experimental new treatment for Glioblastoma Multiforme, or GBM—an aggressive tumor that kills about 12000people in the U.S. each year is saving the lives of patients who, just months ago, had little hope for survival.” The treatment has found by experiments on mice and now, many humans…

constraints and emotional challenges. It is much better to die with no suffering and with the same sadness among the family and friends, as they would face when the person eventually passed. Brittany Maynard, a 29 year-old girl with stage 4 Glioblastoma multiforme, stated that she did not want to die but the disease would slowly and painfully kill her. And for her to die a peaceful life, on her terms is a much better option than being succumbed to illness. There are many others who feel the…

he intent of the paper is to give the reader a closer examination of a variety of Medical Imaging modalities that are being used today. A short rundown is presented for Interventional Radiography, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, and Radiation Therapy. Following is a more in-depth look at Computed Tomography that will give the reader a better comprehension of how it separates itself from other medical imaging specialties. Interventional radiology: The…

I am a strong believer that life is a gift and it is the greatest teacher to oneself and nothing can be a better way to use it productively than the path of science. My journey started from all the way from undergraduate has been a mixture of learning from various interdisciplinary fields. The skills of experimenting and practice are the two elements of my faith which built the foundations of what I still cherish are the long hours in the laboratory of my mentor Professor P Rajeswara Rao. The…

In the story Becoming Dr. Q we are taken through vivid memories of triumph and despair. There is much to be seen in these stories shared by Dr. Q, most speak on cases that boggle the world of medicine as a whole while others are common cases that are yet to be uncured by science. It is in those respects that I feel a recurring theme of this life story is that of the personal effect that every patient has had on Dr. Q. He often speaks about the impact that these lives have had on him both in a…

leukemia from four to eighty percent in the last fifty-three years. Another major discovery currently giving people real, growing, and fast hope is new treatments being discovered, by scientists and physicians at Duke University, to treat glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Just months ago patients with GBM, who had little hope of surviving, now have a realistic chance of living a long, pain-free life. Just like those affected by GBM, millions of others affected with cancer, a disease, and/or broken…

Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD, the founder of antineoplaston treatment and therapy, has claimed to have treated hundreds of cancer patients in America and Mexico. Antineoplastons are a group of naturally- occurring peptides formed in the body through blood and urine which control tumor growth, and have been proven as a means of an alternative treatment, in respect to the toxins in chemotherapy (Reismann, 3). More than almost forty years later, after the beginning of antineoplastons, published…

CORTICAL MAPPING USING MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS IN GLIOMA SURGERY INTRODUCTION The aim of glioma surgery is to get maximum resection of a tumor with minimal violation of normal brain tissue. A primary tenet of neurosurgical oncology is that survival can improve with greater tumor resection, but this principle must be tempered by the potential for functional loss after a radical removal. It has always been a challenge to achieve this ?functional? resection especially when eloquent cortex is…