Brain and Spine Cancer
July 19, 2023
UAMS Performs 1,000th Gamma Tile Brain Surgery in U.S.
UAMS neurosurgeon Analiz Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., and radiation oncologist Richard Crownover, M.D., Ph.D., successfully performed the 1,000th Gamma Tile brain surgery in the United States last month. Gamma Tile is a fairly new surgical procedure in which a thin collagen tile infused with radiation is embedded in the tumor cavity immediately after a brain tumor…
November 30, 2022
Children’s Tumor Foundation, UAMS Open Country’s First Adult Neurofibromatosis Clinic
The Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced the opening of the first CTF-sponsored, fully multidisciplinary clinic dedicated to the care of adults with neurofibromatosis (NF) at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. “We are honored to be designated by the Children’s Tumor Foundation as the site…
October 21, 2022
UAMS Neurosurgeon Uses Brain-Mapping Software, Laser Ablation to Safely Destroy Mom’s Brain Tumor
| Just three months after giving birth to her daughter, Ashley James learned that a brain tumor she’d had removed nearly two years earlier had returned. Back in October 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pine Bluff native was living in Cleveland, Ohio, when she experienced a severe headache and pain behind…
July 22, 2021
UAMS Performs First GammaTile Brain Surgery in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK — Radiation oncologist Richard Crownover, M.D., Ph.D., and neurosurgeon Analiz Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., and their care team at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have performed the state’s first application of GammaTile Therapy.
May 28, 2021
Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Removal Gives Morrilton Grandmother ‘a Second Chance’
Mary Harris enjoys traveling with her daughters and granddaughters, and the family looks forward to their trips three times a year. And though the pandemic caused them to postpone for a while, they are ready to resume with a trip to Branson in June. In 2016, Harris began having a continued cough and constant bronchitis….