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Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to ...


PSA value at 2 years post-treatment can predict long-term survival in prostate cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prostate cancer patients who have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value of less than or equal to 1.5 at two years after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) are less likely to have a cancer recurrence and cancer-related ...


Physicists see through the opaque with 'T-rays'

Physics / General Physics

created 2 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

"T-rays" may make X-rays obsolete as a means of detecting bombs on terrorists or illegal drugs on traffickers, among other uses, contends a Texas A&M physicist who is helping lay the theoretical groundwork to make the concept ...


A view of the Swiss Alps at Matterhorn

Sunshine speeded 1940s Swiss glacier melt: scientists

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

A surge in sunshine more than 60 years ago helped Swiss mountain glaciers melt faster than today, even though warmer average temperatures are being recorded now, Swiss researchers said Monday.


How water forms where Earth-like planets are born

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that helps to explain the origins of water on Earth, University of Michigan astronomers have found that water vapor can form spontaneously in habitable zones of solar systems, and that it develops ...


Study finds racial disparities exist in radiation therapy rates for early stage breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Black women are less likely than white women to receive radiation therapy after a lumpectomy, the standard of care for early stage breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


Vacuum flask

Scientists Create Material More Insulating than the Vacuum

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (57) | comments 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its complete lack of atoms, a vacuum is often considered to be the best known insulator. For this reason, vacuums are regularly used to reduce heat transfer, such as in the lining of ...


Studies quantify radiation doses, cancer risks from CT scans

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doses of radiation from commonly performed computed tomography (CT) scans vary widely, appear higher than generally believed and may contribute to an estimated tens of thousands of future cancer cases, according to two reports ...


Turning metal black more than just a novelty

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts.


Study questions true favorability of rare breast cancer type

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a large review of breast cancer patients with mucinous carcinoma, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have identified an association between this rare type of breast cancer long-associated ...



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