Somewhere in the vicinity of 80% of Americans will suffer from acute back pain at least once in their lives, with most episodes resolving over time and very few turning into conditions that require ...

Spinal cord tumors are growths that develop in the spinal canal. These growths can originate from either the spinal cord itself or the bones that surround the spinal cord. Spinal cord tumors make up ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When a patient's cancer comes back and spreads, doctors are now seeing it spread to the spine most often. Treating a tumor in your spine is tricky, but there's a new treatment ...

The Brain and Spine Metastases Clinic at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center allows for close collaboration between spinal surgeons and radiation oncologists. Together, these specialists offer rapid ...

Washington, DC — The use of a magnetic resonance (MR)–guided laser ablation technique shows success as a minimally invasive alternative to separation surgery in high-grade malignant spinal cord ...

Brain and spinal cord tumors are abnormal growths of tissue found inside the skull or the bony spinal column, which are the primary components of the central nervous system (CNS). Benign tumors are ...

Axel Bleiler, 3, of Jupiter has undergone chemotherapy and radiation treatment for rhabdomyosarcoma since the spring, when an ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Children's National Hospital in Washington D.C. are uncovering ...