Study observes no association between cell phone use and auditory tumors
...ers may be at increased risk. The radio frequency radiation emitted from cellular phones is absorbed superficially on the skin and bones surrounding the ear, and intracranially behind the ear. While there is no evidence of carcinogenic effect, public health concerns about the safety of cellular phone use per...Stanford team prevents kidney transplant rejection without drugs
... kidney recipient received multiple small doses of radiation targeted to the immune system combined with a drug...MD, the Henry S. Kaplan-Harry Lebeson professor of radiation oncology; John Scandling, MD, professor of medicine (nephrology); Oscar Salvatierra, professor of su...Mayo Clinic study finds radiosurgery is effective alternative to surgery
..., Biology, Physics. Stereotactic radiosurgery is a radiation therapy technique that uses a large number of narr... despite having both radiosurgery and fractionated radiation therapy; he died four years later. No patient with a lower cranial nerve schwannoma developed any he...Long-term survival results favor chemotherapy before surgery for locally advanced breast cancer
...otherapy, surgery, post-operative chemotherapy and radiation therapy - within 32 weeks, with minimal interval between modalities," he said. The 62 women studied all had locally advanced primary breast tumors greater than five centimeters, with skin or chest wall involvement, or with extensive involvement of ...The Lancet Oncology (TLO) and The Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID)
THE LANCET ONCOLOGY (TLO) Chernobyl, ionising radiation exposure, and cancer risk The first review in this months TLO reviews the epidemiological evidence linking cancer incidence as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in the Ukraine. Most studies have focused on malignant diseases in childr...New radioimmunotherapy drug proves highly effective for killing off B cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma
...o react against a cancer cell, with the ability of radiation to kill off cancer cells. The mixture of radiation and antibodies is given intravenously and travels through the bloodstream to the cancer cells. Unlik...Radiation rids arteries of re-narrowing for up to five years
DALLAS, May 13 People who received radiation in their arteries during angioplasty had a reduced...on: Journal of the American Heart Association. The radiation was given inside the artery to prevent restenosis, a potentially fatal renarrowing of the vessel. R...Repeat stenting not always durable
...ation. The study shows that zapping arteries with radiation when they narrow after a stent is implanted does n...-stent restenosis. Of these, 34 patients received radiation in their re-narrowed arteries, while 36 made up the placebo group and had no radiation. The 34 pati...Blocking gene may reduce lung scarring caused by radiation therapy
... significantly reduce long-term scarring caused by radiation therapy to the chest, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Cen...ay patients could avoid life-long complications of radiation therapy using drugs to block the action of this gene. Such drugs are being developed. "Many of these...Blocking adhesion protein may reduce lung damage from radiation
... damage, and diminished lung performance caused by radiation of the lungs are reduced in mice genetically engin...ck the activity of ICAM-1 could be used to prevent radiation therapy-related problems, conclude Dennis E. Hallahan, M.D., and his colleagues at Vanderbilt Univer...New breast cancer therapy trials show dramatic results
...hermia has long been known to boost the effects of radiation therapy, its ability to enhance a tumor's response...e they are needed most," said Ellen Jones, M.D., a radiation oncologist who delivers the hyperthermia treatments to patients at Duke. Indeed, doctors have long...Experimental pill found to improve symptoms in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer
...control their patients cancer with chemotherapy or radiation treatments. The side effects from these treatments, however, can often outweigh any survival benefit that patients might receive. The challenge for those of us treating patients with advanced lung cancer today, is how we can manage our patients car...Childhood cancer survivors: Good health for some, long-term complications for others
...ions resulting from some forms of chemotherapy and radiation used to treat childhood cancers can occur months t...to siblings. Female survivors treated with cranial radiation before the age of five years were four times more likely to be obese, while male survivors were twic...Jefferson researchers show angiostatin is safe when given with radiation for advanced cancer
...ood supply indicates it is safe when combined with radiation therapy in the treatment of advanced cancers. Dail...s Adam Dicker, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, who led the trial along with W...Jefferson scientists find Cox-2 may play role in some brain tumors
...o Adam Dicker, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology and director of the Division of Experimen...mors known as pituitary macroadenomas. Surgery and radiation are somewhat effective, but both diseases frequently return after treatment. Few molecular targets f...Prostate cancer is costly for Californians, according to UCSF researchers
...t was incurred. For example, if a patient received radiation treatment as an inpatient, then it was considered a hospitalization cost. If the treatment was received in an outpatient clinic, it was considered an outpatient cost. All hospital discharges with a primary or secondary diagnosis of prostate cancer we...U-M study finds new target in war against graft-versus-host disease
... intestines of the host. Damaged by heavy doses of radiation and chemotherapy used to destroy the patients canc...Until now, researchers assumed that pre-transplant radiation killed all the hosts antigen-presenting cells, so scientists discounted the importance of these cell...New, non-invasive surgical procedure to eliminate epileptic seizures
...says Paul DesRosiers, M.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology and the principal investigator of the IU ... which is designed to determine the most effective radiation dose for eliminating the seizure focus in the brain." Currently, the only approved treatments involv...Intensification therapy studied in head and neck cancer
...nsification therapy, a complex regimen of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy given as soon as possible after d...th a four-year survival rate following surgery and radiation of only 38 percent (excluding laryngeal cancers). That figure goes up slightly when chemotherapy is...HPET & CT image fusion study reveals limitations for radiotherapy planning
... RTPS (a system for determining where and how much radiation therapy should be delivered) The study found that while the CT and HPET images could be co-registered within 2mm in centrally located tumor inserts, tumor inserts on the peripheral was only 8-10mm, due to distortion and resolution lost of HPET images...