News tagged with liver metastases
'Hedgehog' pathway may hold key to anti-cancer therapy
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Scientists in Switzerland have discovered a way to block the growth of human colon cancer cells, preventing the disease from reaching advanced stages and the development of liver metastases. The research, published today ...
Advances in liver surgery enable the prospect of curative treatment for more patients
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Although many prognostic factors predicting survival and cancer recurrence in patients undergoing surgery for colorectal liver metastases are already identified, the effects of newly introduced technologies and new drugs ...
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New technique in treating patients with liver cancer proves effective
Apr 11, 2008 |
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Use of multipolar radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of colorectal liver metastases is effective and has a relatively low recurrence rate, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Charité, Campus Benjamin ...
A breakthrough in contrast-enhanced intraoperative ultrasonography
Sep 18, 2008 |
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The present brief clinical report showed that Contrast-enhanced intraoperative ultrasonography (CE-IOUS) using a new microbubble agent, Sonazoid, can allow surgeons to investigate the whole liver with enough time and to find ...
Unexplained liver hemorrhage after metastasis radiofrequency ablation
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Colorectal carcinoma is one of the most common cancers in the world. Approximately one in four of these patients have metastases at diagnosis, liver being the most common site involved. Although historically it was considered ...
Colorectal cancer: Researchers identify genetic markers for metastasis formation
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Previously, only a few genes had been associated with the formation of metastases in colorectal cancer. Now, researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch ...
Keeping hepatitis C virus at bay after a liver transplant
Oct 01, 2009 |
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One of the most common reasons for needing a liver transplant is liver failure or liver cancer caused by liver cell infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, in nearly all patients the new liver becomes infected with ...
Potent metastasis inhibitor identified
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have isolated a potent inhibitor of tumor metastasis made by tumor cells, one that could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment. Their findings were published in the online ...
Surgical treatment provides new option for some colorectal cancer patients
Sep 30, 2008 |
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Research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that a surgical technique not traditionally used in advanced abdominal cancer may be a viable treatment option for some patients previously thought to be ...
Aiming to avoid damage to neurocognitive areas of the brain during cranial radiation
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Radiation oncologists at Rush University Medical Center are intent on finding ways to avoid damage to the critically important hippocampus and limbic circuit of the brain when cranial radiation is required to treat existing ...
Study provides clues to preventing and treating cancer spread
Jul 28, 2008 |
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Isn't it odd that cancer cells from one organ, such as the skin, can travel and take root in a totally different organ, like the lung?
Radiology procedure may help increase long-term survival in patients with severe liver cancer
Nov 20, 2009 |
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In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization (TACE) followed by a liver transplant may significantly ...
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