Items Tagged ‘#head and neck cancer’
September 16, 2022
Regeneration after rare cancer
Alison O’Neill’s love for life is as infectious as her grateful attitude. “I’ve been blessed beyond measure. I absolutely love and appreciate life to the fullest. We (my husband and I) love to golf, play tennis, work out, hike and travel,” says Alison. With a bright outlook and a healthy lifestyle, Alison never expected that […]
Tags: #Alison O'Neill, #Angiosarcoma, #broadband light therapy, #Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics, #Dr. Brittany Howard, #fat grafting, #head and neck cancer, #laser therapy
July 18, 2022
A preclinical step toward treating chronic dry mouth
Mayo Clinic researchers replicated chronic dry mouth from radiation damage in preclinical models, laying the foundation for stem cell research to regenerate salivary tissue after cancer. This discovery uses targeted X-radiation to mimic human injury and establish a lab model for testing cellular therapies for dry mouth. The study is published in Radiation Research. “The […]
Tags: #Dr. Jeffrey Janus, #Dr. Nagarajan Kannan, #Dry mouth, #head and neck cancer, #Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, #xerostomia