Articles Tagged With: malignant
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The Effect of Epilepsy on Patients with Brain Tumors
Cancer cells form direct synapses with neurons, whose electrical activity stimulates brain tumor growth. Accumulating evidence suggests that epilepsy enhances the proliferation of malignant brain tumors and that improved management of epilepsy may reduce morbidity and mortality in these patients.
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Tissue Invasion by Malignantly Transformed Cells from Hymenolepis nana in a Human Host
The first reported case of human disease caused by parasite-derived cancer cells was discovered in a 41-year-old man with HIV infection; lung, adrenal, and liver nodules; and lymphadenopathy.