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... M.B.A., clinical assistant professor of radiation oncology at the U-M Medical School, and lead author on the study. These caregiving issues will become increasingly important as the country's elderly population doubles in the next 30 years. And while heart disease is the leading cause of death in the elderly...Lidocaine patch shown in large trial to relieve post-herpetic neuralgia
... clinical trial and a professor of anesthesiology, oncology and psychiatry at the Strong Pain Clinic, University of Rochester Medical Center. "The pain often causes sleep loss and depression. Many patients withdraw from social activity because of the pain, and these consequences of PHN can affect the spouse o...Early trial at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital shows Angiostatin is safe
...urran, Jr., M.D., professor and chair of radiation oncology at Jefferson Medical College and clinical director...ker, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at Jefferson Medical College, currently is looking at Angiostatin combined with radiation in patient...Free radicals mediate arsenic's harmful effects
...adical pathway." Dr. Hei is professor of radiation oncology and public health at the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. "If we understand how arsenic causes cancer, we'll have better means of prevention." Antioxidants are a leading candidate for such ...European commission grants "orphan" status for new acute myeloid leukaemia treatment
...epresents the first product from Wyeth's promising oncology pipeline." As a designated orphan medicinal product, Mylotarg will have access to the Commission's "centralised" procedure for assessment of the marketing authorisation application. Orphan medicinal products are intended to treat patients with rare ...Lawrence Livermore Lab pioneers advanced radiation treatment for cancer
...gh in cancer therapy in the past 30 years, to the oncology industry in 1992. The company is also a leading supplier of 3-D planning systems. To find out more about NOMOS and its treatment planning and delivery products, visit the NOMOS website at www.nomos.com. Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National...... by Matthay, who is director of pediatric clinical oncology at the Children's Medical Center at UCSF, last year showed a three-fold improvement in disease-free survival from high-risk neuroblastoma due to a new combination of therapies. But even with this improvement, only 40 percent of children with the most...Protein predicts prognosis for breast cancer patients
....D., assistant professor of radiation and cellular oncology at the University of Chicago. "Our anaylsis sugges...uished Service Professor of radiation and cellular oncology at the University of Chicago and co-author of the paper. "Two thirds of node-neagative patients wil......edical Center and assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. ...uage pathologists. ASTRO is the largest radiation oncology society in the world, with more than 5,000 members....Meharry-Vanderbilt partnership aims to address racial disparity in cancer outcomes
...neral Hospital on the Meharry campus. A half-day oncology clinic, staffed by two Vanderbilt oncology fellows, has already been established at Metro-General, with plans to expand to two half-days each w...Hopkins gene therapy trial is first to activate entire human immune system against prostate cancer
... says Jonathan Simons, M.D.,associate professor of oncology and urology and principal investigator of thisstudy, funded by the CaP Cure Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, and theDepartment of Defense Prostate Cancer Initiative. "Using gene therapy, we re-educated the immune system to recognize prost...Review identifies factors leading to better outcome for some metastatic breast cancer patients
...id Rizzieri, who is assistant professor of medical oncology and bone marrowtransplantation. For all 425 patients in the study, regardless of treatment or timing, the newanalysis found six factors that contributed to better survival on average. Three were identical to those leading to greater success with aggr...Marriage rates differ only slightly in childhood cancer survivors
... -- whowere treated at 27 oncology centers in the United Statesand Canada. The data was collected as part of theChildhood Cancer Survivor Study. "The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study is so large it is ...Researchers discover the driving force behind cancer cells in Hodgkin's disease
...d now a member of the departments ofhematology and oncology at University Medical Centre in Freiburg, Germany,examined 950 tumour genes in order to identify which ones are specificallyexpressed in Hodgkin's disease cells. She found that IL-13 is consistentlyover-expressed in Hodgkin's disease. Her colleague,...Faculty research contributes to new cervical cancer treatment
...sease. Peter G. Rose, chief of gynecologic oncology at University Hospitals ofCleveland and associate professor of reproductive biology at CWRU's School ofMedicine, led the largest of the five studies, involving more than 50institutions nationwide. NCI has designated the Ireland Cancer Center ......?s core expertise:relationships with international oncology experts, strategic alliances that provide unparalleled access to patient recruitment for clinical trials, and simultaneous European and U.S. drug development and approval capabilities....Mayo Clinic Study Finds Costs For Cancer Clinical Trials Comparable To Costs For Standard Treatment
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