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Causes: Brain Disorders Research, Health
Mission: Mg charities is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. The purpose of this coporation is to bring awareness to and raise money for cancer prevention and cure.
Programs: In 2014, mg charities hosted their first charity classic at pebble beach golf resort in pebble beach, california. Following this event, mg charities wrote a check for $80,000 to the md anderson cancer center's laser interstitial thermal therapy (litt) research. The following is a write up md anderson did on litt: laser interstitial thermal therapy (litt) is a new treatment being used by md anderson neurosurgeons. Litt is performed by implanting a laser catheter into the tumor and heating it to temperatures high enough to kill the tumor. The treatment is minimally invasive, often requiring little more than a 2-millimeter incision in the scalp, and takes just a few minutes to perform. The catheter is implanted using advanced computer imaging techniques. The laser is guided through the catheter with real-time mri (in our brainsuite), allowing surgeons to limit thermal energy delivery only to the tumor. Most patients can go home the day after treatment and can quickly return to normal activities. Litt is currently being used to treat patients with primary and metastatic brain tumors, but can also help patients who do not respond to stereotactic radiosurgery or have radiation necrosis (tissue death caused by radiation treatment).