News tagged with nodes
Chicago team uses artificial intelligence to diagnose metastatic cancer
Jul 28, 2009 |
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When doctors are managing care for women with breast cancer, the information available to them profoundly influences the type of care they recommend. Knowing whether a woman's cancer has metastasized, for instance, directly ...
Evaluating more lymph nodes may not improve identification of late-stage colorectal cancer
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Surgically removing and evaluating an increasing number of lymph nodes does not appear to identify a greater number of patients with stage III colorectal cancer, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery.
Green tea extract shows promise in leukemia trials
May 26, 2009 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers are reporting positive results in early leukemia clinical trials using the chemical epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), an active ingredient in green tea. The trial determined that patients with chronic ...
What is the function of lymph nodes?
May 26, 2009 |
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If we imagine our immune system to be a police force for our bodies, then previous work has suggested that the Lymph nodes would be the best candidate structures within the body to act as police stations - the regions in ...
Study examines trends in gallbladder cancer over 4 decades
May 18, 2009 |
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Overall prognosis for gallbladder cancer appears to be improving, although many patients still have incurable disease and poor survival rates, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Surgery.
Educational initiatives improve quality of care delivery
May 15, 2009 |
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A study of targeted educational initiatives between the clinical staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center and the hospitals within their Partners program suggest that educational interventions by academic cancer centers can improve ...
Study points toward relationship between cancer stem cells and prognosis in primary breast cancer
May 15, 2009 |
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Breast cancer patients who received chemotherapy prior to surgery had heightened levels of cancer-initiating stem cells in their bone marrow, and the level of such cells correlated to a tumor's lymph node involvement, according ...
Drug that targets vasculature growth attacks aggressive thyroid cancer
May 15, 2009 |
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A medication that helps stop the growth of new blood vessels has produced dramatic benefits for some patients with aggressive thyroid cancer, research from Mayo Clinic indicates.
Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense
May 13, 2009 |
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One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.
New technique may help detect potential breast cancer spread
May 08, 2009 |
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A new phase III clinical trial of early stage breast cancer patients has shown that a molecule designed to home in on nearby lymph nodes is just as accurate as current techniques, but faster, more specific and easier to use.
Study links arm/hand swelling to number of lymph nodes removed during breast cancer surgery
Apr 23, 2009 |
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In older breast cancer survivors, the number of lymph nodes removed during surgery and the presence of cancer in the lymph nodes were the two factors most directly linked to the development of lymphedema, swelling of the ...
New origin found for a critical immune response
Mar 01, 2009 |
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An immune system response that is critical to the first stages of fighting off viruses and harmful bacteria comes from an entirely different direction than most scientists had thought, according to a finding by researchers ...
Biomarker predicts disease recurrence in colorectal cancer
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University show that the presence of a biomarker in regional lymph nodes is an independent predictor of disease recurr ...
Greedy Routing Enables Network Navigation Without a 'Map'
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How does an e-mail get routed so quickly to its recipient's inbox, or a search query generate relevant Web pages from servers from around the world? Navigating the Internet - or any similar ...
Multi-teraflop computer system targets large-scale discovery projects
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Penn State's Institute for CyberScience will target large-scale modeling, simulation and data analysis with a terascale advanced computing system, funded by the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation ...
