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A useful imaging modality for monitoring treatment response to hepatocellular carcinoma

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

TACE has been widely accepted as a choice of treatment for advanced HCC. CT perfusion is a non-invasive and reproducible technique for assessing perfusion changes due to TACE therapy for locally advanced HCC. However, there ...


New study replicates association between genetic variation and antidepressant treatment response

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pharmacogenetics, the study of genetic variation that influences an individual's response to drugs, is an important and growing focus in all of medical research, including psychiatry. It is a complex field, however, revealed ...





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Extending treatment after liver transplant may benefit patients with hepatitis C recurrence

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extending hepatitis C treatment for liver transplant patients beyond current practice results in high rates of clearance of the hepatitis C virus from the blood, as well as a low rate of relapse, according to a Henry Ford ...


Discovery could improve hepatitis C treatment

Discovery could improve hepatitis C treatment

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers are part of an international team that has discovered a genetic variation that could identify those people infected with hepatitis C who are most likely to benefit ...


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, ...


Against expectations, genetic variation does not alter asthma treatment response

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies have suggested that asthma patients with a specific genetic variation might not respond as well to certain treatments as those with a different variation. But a new study in this week's edition of ...


Estrogen receptor-alpha, breast cancer patients and tamoxifen response

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have found evidence of a statistically significant survival benefit from adjuvant tamoxifen among patients whose estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors had high levels of phosphorylation of ER-alpha; at serine-118 ...


Multiple myeloma patients experience high response rate with new 3-drug combination

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A new three-drug combination has shown in a phase 1/2 clinical trial that it is a "highly effective regimen" in the treatment of patients newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of white blood cells in bone marrow, ...


New study explains some mysteries of neonatal seizures

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

A study led by MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) investigators is providing new insight into the mechanism of neonatal seizures, which have features very different from seizures in older children and adults. In their ...


Researchers develop biomarker for rapid relief of major depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a long, slow slog to treat major depression. Many antidepressant medications are available, but no single biomarker or diagnostic test exists to predict which one is right for an individual. As a result, ...


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

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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 ...


PET imaging response a prognostic factor after thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University ...



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