A St. Peters husband, father and teacher got a life-changing diagnosis and is now on the road to recovery after a risky ...

Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, cancer with an unknown primary site, or renal cancer are at high risk for the development of SCC by metastatic tumor. Spinal cord ...

Three patients with intramedullary spinal cord tumors and secondary leptomeningeal spread of their tumors are presented. Two patients had astrocytomas and one had a ganglioglioma. Two tumors were ...

Childhood cancer affects children under 18 and requires specialized treatment. Common types include leukemia, brain and ...

During a summer hockey practice in 2021, Lucy Solheim awkwardly leaned over to pick up a puck off the ice. It was a normal, run-of-the-mill day for the Bemidji seventh grader until her dad noticed ...

The KONG-C VBR System devices are intended for “use in the cervical spine (from C2 to T1) in skeletally mature patients to replace a diseased or damaged vertebral body caused by tumor, fracture, or ...

Objective: The optimal therapeutic strategies of stem cells for spinal cord injury (SCI) are fully explored in animal studies to promote the translation of preclinical findings to clinical practice, ...

Spinal stenosis is a condition characterized by the narrowing of the spinal canal, which houses the spinal cord and nerve roots. This narrowing can put pressure on the spinal cord or nerve roots, ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed. There are many things that can cause this, but one of the most common is cervical ...

Glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of cancer that grows in the brain or spinal cord, occurs at an incidence rate of about 3/100,000 persons in the Unit | Cancer ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) induces a pronounced neuroinflammation driven by activation and proliferation of resident microglia as well as infiltrating peripheral monocyte-derived macrophages. Depending ...