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Nanoparticles Detect and Purge Metastases in Lymph Nodes

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. In one step, a physician can find precancerous lesions in the colon and then cut them out, an on-the-spot intervention that prevents cancer from developing. ...


Researchers Use Golden Nanotubes for Imaging Agent to Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Node

Golden Nanotubes Used for Imaging Agent to Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Node

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent that is capable of molecular ...


Predicting cancer prognosis

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers led by Dr. Soheil Dadras at the Stanford University Medical Center have developed a novel methodology to extract microRNAs from cancer tissues. The related report by Ma et al, "Profiling and discovery of novel ...


Novel technique changes lymph node biopsy, reduces radiaiton exposure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.





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Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week in the journal ...


Imaging techniques may help predict response to head and neck cancer treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A combination of imaging tests conducted six to eight weeks after patients complete chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer may help identify patients who will respond to treatment and those who will require surgical follow-up, ...


Persistent pain common for many women 2 to 3 years after breast cancer treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly 50 percent of women surveyed indicate they experience pain symptoms 2 to 3 years after breast cancer treatment, with women who were younger or who received supplemental radiation therapy more likely to have pain, according ...


Hundreds of genes distinguish patients likely to survive advanced melanoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although the chances of surviving advanced melanoma aren't very good with current therapies, some patients can live for years with cancer that has spread beyond the skin to other organs. Now it may be possible to identify ...


New treatment option emerging for some with early stage lung cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with early stage, non-small cell lung cancer who are not able to undergo surgery, now have a highly effective treatment option. Physicians say that option, radical stereotactic radiosurgery performed with CyberKnife, ...


Additional, specialized radiation not necessary for some women after mastectomy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After mastectomy, breast cancer patients who receive radiation treatment to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone do not live longer than those who do not receive radiation to this hard-to-treat area, according to ...


Radiation after surgery reduces chance of melanoma returning

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

High-risk melanoma patients who are treated with radiation after surgery have a significantly lower risk of their cancer returning to the lymph nodes (19 percent), compared to those patients who do not have radiation therapy ...


Th17 cells summon an immune system strike against cancer (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A specific type of T helper cell awakens the immune system to the stealthy threat of cancer and triggers an attack of killer T cells custom-made to destroy the tumors, scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


Physical therapists play integral role in prevention, risk reduction, and treatment of lymphedema

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

As breast cancer awareness month is observed during October, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is hoping to shine a spotlight on lymphedema, a chronic, debilitating and often irreversible side effect of cancer ...


Treatment not testicular cancer poses greatest risk to survivors' long-term health

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Testicular cancer survivors can face an increased risk of long-term illness, not because of the malignancy, but the highly effective treatment they receive, according to a study in the urology journal BJUI.



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