Dr. Grant Steen

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  Authors Page - March-April 1997 - [Cached Version]
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  Bob Losyk Gene Stephens Robert K. Greenleaf Michael G. Zey Julian L. Simon Ronald Bailey Hazel Henderson Dennis Pirages R. Grant Steen Lane Jennings
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  R. Grant SteenDepartment of Diagnostic ImagingSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital332 North Lauderdale StreetMemphis , TN 38105Tel. 901/495-2014On faculty of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and studies brain tumor biology.Author of Changing the Odds.

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  Bone Marrow Tx - [Cached Version]
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  St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientist Grant Steen, Ph.D. is the author of the study.
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  Compared to their siblings, patients with vasculopathy often do not perform as well in school or on standardized tests, Steen said.

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  The book was edited by St. Jude Chief Medical Officer Joe Mirro, and Grant Steen, an associate member in the department of Diagnostic Imaging.

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  Kevin Sharpe and Rebecca Bryant, 'Behavioral Genetics:... - [Cached Version]
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  Grant Steen, a medical researcher at the Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, reports several sceptical reactions to split-twin studies.
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  Steen, R. G. 1996.DNA and Destiny: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior.New York: Plenum Press.
  
  Tracking Global Happiness.1996.Science News 149 (24) 15 June: 381.
  
  van Biema, D. 1997.Does Heaven Exist?Time 149 (12) 24 March: 70 - 78.

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  Another third of the increased risk is probably due to factors that relate to poverty, such as stress, according to Steen.
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  ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Video, hard copy requests, contact information and more available at http://www.prnewswire.com/broadcast/10976/10976 consumer.html INTERVIEW: * Grant Steen, Ph.D., an associate member in the Department of Radiological Sciences at St. Jude and associate professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Radiology at the University of Tennessee

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  With their book Childhood Cancer, Joseph Mirro, M.D. (right), and Grant Steen, Ph.D., help families sort through a multitude of issues.
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  Edited by Joseph Mirro, M.D., and Grant Steen, Ph.D., Childhood Cancer covers topics that range from questions to ask the child's doctor, to nutrition, treatment options, finances, and second opinions.
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  Steen, who has been with St. Jude seven years, says, "There's a real dearth of material that helps answer parents' questions.With this book we're trying to give people a map of the most important issues."
  
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  "For many, the whole experience is like being carried downstream in a fast river, not knowing where they're going or what's happening to them," says Steen."That hopeless feeling doesn't help their child's treatment and may in fact hinder it.So it's important to let people know what's happening so they can take an active part."
  
  Besides health-care professionals and people currently dealing with childhood cancer, the book should also be of interest to survivors - "those people who come back five years later for a follow-up," says Steen, "and want to find out the license plate of the truck that hit them."

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  Memphis Magazine :: City Beat :: June 2000 - [Cached Version]
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  With their book Childhood Cancer, Joseph Mirro, M.D. (right), and Grant Steen, Ph.D., help families sort through a multitude of issues.
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  Edited by Joseph Mirro, M.D., and Grant Steen, Ph.D., Childhood Cancer covers topics that range from questions to ask the child's doctor, to nutrition, treatment options, finances, and second opinions.
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  Steen, who has been with St. Jude seven years, says, "There's a real dearth of material that helps answer parents' questions.
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  "For many, the whole experience is like being carried downstream in a fast river, not knowing where they're going or what's happening to them," says Steen."That hopeless feeling doesn't help their child's treatment and may in fact hinder it.So it's important to let people know what's happening so they can take an active part."
  
  Besides health-care professionals and people currently dealing with childhood cancer, the book should also be of interest to survivors - "those people who come back five years later for a follow-up," says Steen, "and want to find out the license plate of the truck that hit them."

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  New Research Into Sickle Cell Anemia - News Channel 7,... - [Cached Version]
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  Grant Steen, PhDGrant Steen, PhD of The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (top) and image of brain arteries--in a healthy child this artery would be perfectly straight.
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  Dr. Grant Steen says, "This bow here is not normal.
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  Dr. Steen says, "I'm wondering if maybe we didn't put our finger on one of the risk factors that's contributing to that.

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  Quodlibet Online Journal: Camellias and Happiness: An... - [Cached Version]
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  Grant Steen, a medical researcher at the Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, reports several sceptical reactions to split-twin studies.They too are trivial.For instance, Steen feels suspicious of statistics derived from one sample of the population, say from white male twins, being applied to another, say female non-twins or black males.
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  Steen, R. G. 1996.DNA and Destiny: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior.New York: Plenum Press.
  
  Tracking Global Happiness.15 June 1996.Science News 149:24:381.
  
  van Biema, D. 24 March 1997.Does Heaven Exist?Time 149:12:70-78.

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  Reducing stroke risk in African Americans - [Cached Version]
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  This novel finding may help explain why African-American men between 33 and 44 years of age are three to four times more likely to suffer a stroke than American white men of the same age, according to Grant Steen, Ph.D., an associate member in the Department of Radiological Sciences at St. Jude and associate professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Radiology at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine.
  
  "We've shown that apparently healthy siblings of children with SCD can develop a blood vessel abnormality in childhood that could become a serious health threat during adulthood," Steen said.
  
  Many factors contribute to the increased risk for stroke among African-American adults.About a third of the overall increased risk is associated with greater exposure to the known risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity and diabetes.Another third of the increased risk is probably due to factors that relate to poverty, such as stress, according to Steen.
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  The cells die faster than the body can replace them, and the heart tries to compensate for this loss of healthy red cells by significantly increasing the flow of blood, according to Steen.
  
  "Instead of a garden hose bringing blood to the brain, you have a fire hose," Steen said.
  
  Steen believes that the high rate of blood flow damages arteries in the brain, causing them to become twisted or "tortuous."
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  Steen believes that it may be the high rate of blood flow that damages arteries, since children with more hemoglobin S also had more tortuousity.
  
  Steen and his colleagues believe that as children with hemoglobin AS grow into adults, the tortuousity of blood vessels in their brains may increase.

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