Combination Therapy Improves Chances Of Surviving Esophageal Cancer
NEW YORK, May 6, 1999 - A combination of radiation and chemotherapylengthens the life of esophageal c...nts treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation survived atleast eight years following treatment. "This study strongly suggests that one accep...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...nd curableforms of breast cancer may be undergoing radiation therapy unnecessarily,according to a University of...ctomy. But opinion is currently divided on whether radiation therapy is necessary forall DCIS patients who choose lumpectomy. In the NEJM article, Silverstein, a...Doctors have suspected that radiation therapy helped prevent patientsfrom dying of prost...ow, RichardValicenti, M.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at Jefferson MedicalCollege of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and his colleag...Biological Markers Found That Correlate To Esophageal Cancer Treatment Success
...nproducts on the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation treatment foresophageal cancer. Three of the gene...rapy. The third marker signifies thatresistance to radiation treatment is likely. Information allowing treatment response to be predicted in esophageal cancerwou...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...se despite prior treatmentsincluding chemotherapy, radiation therapy and biologic therapy (with interferonor IL-2). The other patient had not had prior therapy. Six of the eight patients who received the optimal IL-12 dose had significantbenefit. One patient with multiple metastatic tumors in both lungs had ac...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...diseased bone marrow is destroyed byeither intense radiation or chemotherapy, essentially wiping out their immunesystem. Depending on the patient's particular illness, replacement marrow maycome from a donor or may be the patient's own marrow treated to remove anymalignant cells (an autologous transplant). I...UI Study Yields Encouraging Results For New Breast Cancer Treatment
...at the drugs destroy. High-dose chemotherapyand/or radiation with bone marrow transplants is standard treatment in somecircumstances for some malignancies, including acute leukemia, chronicmyelogenous leukemia, neuroblastoma, lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome. The five studies presented at the ASCO meeting......had accumulated a relatively high dose of ionising radiation (more than 100 millisieverts) before their child's conception was higher than in children conceived before their father's employment in the nuclear industry. However, because this finding was based on only three cases - two of which had been reporte...New cancer treatment facility opens
...es. A disease team includessurgical, medical, and radiation oncologists, pathologists, nurses, and otherhealth professionals with expertise in a particular type of cancer. To streamline access to the images and files necessary to care for each patient,the facility has more than 550 computers and uses the mo...Echinacea symposium presents new research on Chernobyl victims
...feguard a population that is facing high levels of radiation exposure; A study of how Echinacea purpurea can pr...inacea purpurea can protect organs and tissuesfrom radiation damage. The research is among the new studies to be presented during the 1999International Echinac...Faculty research contributes to new cervical cancer treatment
...rove the treatment of cervical cancer by combining radiation andchemotherapy. Until now, the standard treatment...onfor early stages of invasive cervical cancer and radiation alone for advancedstages of the disease. Peter G. Rose, chief of gynecologic oncology at Uni...Wake Forest researchers develop new technique to diagnose narrowed heart arteries
...D.,associate professor of cardiology; Steve Darty, radiation technologist; CraigHamilton, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology; David M. Herrington, M.D.,associate professor of cardiology; Kim Lane, sonographer; Tiffany Salido,engineer, and, Mark Thomas, R.N.......rcent of cases sent to him to surgeryor outpatient radiation therapy. Dr. Pollock and his colleagues have found that,in general, patients with lesions larger than 35 millimeters aren?t goodcandidates for gamma knife treatment. Pain Limits Physical and Social Functioning in Female Cancer Patients A Mayo Clini...Wake Forest first to apply innovative brain cancer treatment
...herapeutics, the GliaSite RTS places a high doseof radiation directly into the tissue most likely to contain re...remove the tumor and is later filled with a liquid radiation source. Both areremoved within several weeks, completing the treatment. According to Stephe...New computer model supports the importance of annual mammograms
...ed to bescreened every year," says Kopans. "Since radiation risk in the 40-and-over agegroup is minimal, the only reason to recommend a longer screening interval wouldbe to save money."...UI researchers learn more about how exercise affects the colon
...n works slowly and would require anunsafe level of radiation to track all the changes. "New technology developed over the last 10 years allows us to visualize theentire colon from the inside, even in the presence of material. People can thengo about their normal activities while we measure the colonic activit...Scientists see with 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Precision measurements of radiation will be the key to pinpointing breast cancers smaller than a grain of sand and discovering what lies in the space between galaxies, an international conference will discover today (see note). The unique gathering of scientists and engineers at Univer...Turning off cancer shield may allow safer cancer therapy
... healthy tissues from thedangerous side effects of radiation therapy. Pifithrin works by temporarily blocking t...andintestinal tract and thus allow chemotherapy or radiation to be administeredmore safely. These healthy cells, unlike most tumors, have a working p53 thatcause...New test can better uncover hidden breast cancer
...al patient. Currently, a generalrecipe of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy is considered for everyone withearly stage breast cancer. "Once you get this information, you get a better idea of the nature of thetumor," Cote said. "The ability to identify those patients who need treatment,and the specific type o...Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center adds new dimension in radiation treatment
...ontherapy system that allows physicians to "shape" radiation treatmentsthree-dimensionally to match irregularly contoured tumors. This gives radiation oncologists the ability to deliver a full dose of radiationto the entire structure of a tumor while ...