News tagged with nodes
Internet Growth Follows Moore's Law Too
Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Originally, Moore’s Law described the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit, which doubles approximately every 18 months. Now, a team of researchers from China has discovered ...
Novel technique changes lymph node biopsy, reduces radiaiton exposure
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.
Molecular imaging enables earlier, individualized treatment of thyroid cancer
Jan 02, 2009 |
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In a study to determine the diagnostic value of molecular imaging in nodal staging of patients with thyroid cancer, researchers were able for the first time to accurately distinguish between cancerous cells in regional lymph ...
Pelvic lymphadenectomy does not improve survival in early stage endometrial cancer
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Systematic use of pelvic lymphadenectomy (removal of the lymph nodes) does not improve disease-free or overall survival in women with early-stage endometrial cancer, according to a randomized trial published online November ...
Cancer patients who receive neoadjuvant therapy followed by mastectomy may not need radiation
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Early-stage breast cancer patients who exhibit limited lymph node involvement may not require post-surgery radiation therapy (RT) when they receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy before a mastectomy, according to researchers from ...
New predictive tool can help determine treatment of breast cancer patients
Sep 23, 2008 |
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A new predictive measurement, called a PEPI score, could bring good news to many women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer — a low PEPI (preoperative endocrine prognostic index) score could show that they have little ...
US hospitals 'flunk' colon cancer
Sep 09, 2008 |
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School has barely begun, but many U.S. hospitals have already received their report card in colon cancer. They flunked. A new study from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons ...
Wireless sensors learn from life
Aug 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European and Indian researchers are applying principles learned from living organisms to design self-organising networks of wireless sensors suitable for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes.
Bone marrow stem cells may help control inflammatory bowel disease
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Aug 20, 2008 |
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have found that infusions of a particular bone marrow stem cell appeared to protect gastrointestinal tissue from autoimmune attack in a mouse model. In their report published ...
Dual-Mode Nanoparticles Image Tumors Using MRI and PET
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 15, 2008 |
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Medical imaging represents one of the most used and useful procedures in the oncologist’s diagnostic toolkit, even though each of the most useful techniques—magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized tomography x-ray ...
Checking more lymph nodes linked to cancer patient survival
Jul 22, 2008 |
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Why do patients with gastric or pancreatic cancer live longer when they are treated at cancer centers or high-volume hospitals than patients treated at low-volume or community hospitals?
Researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes
Jul 11, 2008 |
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Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the ...
