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...ia,who underwent a lumpectomy, lymph node surgery, radiation and chemotherapy in1997. Initially she was afraid to explore the subject for fear of learning morethan she could handle emotionally. But with time that hesitation turned toaction, as she began to seek information about the disease and, ultimately,dec...Nanomolecular 'smart bombs' seek and destroy cancer cells
...logy; Stephen Ethier, Ph.D.,associate professor of radiation oncology; James Mulay, Ph.D., professor ofsurgery and of internal medicine; Donald Tomalia, Ph.D., senior researchscientist; Jolanta Kukowska, Ph.D., research investigator; Anna Bielinska,Ph.D., research investigator; and research associates Lajos Ba......nn. -- A Yale study of complication rates from two radiation implant therapies for prostate cancer shows that the newertherapy, Palladium-103, has fewer long-term side effects than Iodine-125, an older, more commonly prescribed therapy. "While both implants were extraordinarily successful at preventing major ...Adding weekly chemotherapy to radiation therapy significantly increases survival rates of ...TX. "The standard treatment for these patients is radiation therapy alone, says Mohan Suntharalingam, M.D., vice chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology a...Scientists identify gene that detects DNA damage
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