Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, also known as juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, is a benign tumor in the nose usually found in adolescent boys.
Nasopharyngeal angiofibromas spread into areas around the nose, causing symptoms such as a stuffy nose and bleeding from the nose.
Surgery, usually endonasal endoscopic surgery, is the most common treatment.
Johns Hopkins Hospital has earned the top spot in US News News & World Report's annual rankings of American hospitals — for the 21st year in a row. Johns Hopkins Neurology and Neurosurgery is also ranked #1 in the nation.
Chordoma: Drug screening starts to find new treatment for rare bone cancer
The Chordoma Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to Dr. Gary Gallia, a skull-base neurosurgeon and cancer biologist at Johns Hopkins. Gallia’s focus is on developing new therapies for brain and skull-based tumors. His lab has a long record of studying mouse models of brain tumors and he has developed a xenograft mouse model to study chordoma.
The Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Brain Tumor Center is a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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