New radioimmunotherapy cancer treatment
...rapies. It combines the power of nuclear medicine radiation therapy with the targeting capacity of monoclonal ...ll known, iodine-based radiopharmaceutical used in radiation therapy, has been attached. Side effects were moderate in the patients receiving the high-dose ther...Breast cancer mortality may be tied to prolonged exposure to low dose radiation
Women who worked as radiation technologists before 1950 have a higher risk of dy...onal Cancer Institute . Women exposed to high-dose radiation are known to be at increased risk of developing breast cancer. However, it is unclear how prolonged ...Genetic manifestation of melanoma linked to geographic location
... examine whether environment (such as differing UV radiation levels between countries), genetic predisposition (such as presence of dysplastic nevi or modifier genes), or both underlie the variation seen in penetrance estimates....A computer-based, self-help system for the space age
...cle wasting, balance and orientation problems, and radiation exposure. While focusing on space health issues, the Institute will quickly transfer the solutions to Earth patients suffering from similar conditions. The NSBRI is funded by NASA....New treatment for skeletal metastases
...rated into skeletal tissue, where it will give off radiation that kills cancer cells. "Today, this type of 'internal' radiation therapy is usually based on pharmaceuticals that contain strontium. Strontium has a scope of six to ...Breakthrough! UNC scientists' research promises improved X-ray machines using carbon nanotubes
...ls sciences. Dr. Sha Chang, associate professor of radiation oncology at the UNC School of Medicine, also participated in the project. "Scientists and others, including the popular press, have shown a lot of interest in carbon nanotubes because of numerous potential applications," Zhou said. "They are very str...Jefferson Lab/Hampton University partnership results in new medical instrumentation center
... from one field to another. It's not just bouncing radiation off particles. It's understanding the interaction of radiation with matter, human or otherwise." Such collaborations have led to the development of compact gamma ...Vaccines prevent cancers of the liver and cervix
...tment difficult. Two hospitals provide surgery and radiation for a population of 13 million people. While waiting for vaccines to prevent cervical cancer, new screening strategies are needed in low income countries which have no infrastructure for PAP smear screening. So far visual inspection with acetic acid ...Bladder-sparing procedure found effective for treating invasive bladder cancer
...emove the patient's tumor from the bladder. Then, radiation and chemotherapy treatments were administered; chemotherapy complements the cancer-killing effects of radiation, which is directed at the bladder itself. One-third of patients enrolled in the study did eventually require bladder removal, because tes...Misclassification of cause of death in cancer patients
... under which all deaths within 1 month of surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy are attributed to the cancer for which the treatments were initiated. In an accompanying editorial, Colin B. Begg, Ph.D., and Deborah Schrag, M.D., of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, caution that the ...Temple and Fox Chase developing interactive program to assist prostate cancer patients
...tion of several treatment methods such as surgery, radiation or seed implantation," says Diefenbach. "There ar...e can use the software to talk to a urologist or a radiation oncologist and then ask the physician questions, which the program will answer. They'll be able to...The Lancet Neurology press release
...body most exposed to low levels of radio frequency radiation emitted by handsets. This month's Leading edge discusses some of the issues surrounding mobile phone use and concludes that more studies that directly investigate the effects of mobile phone use in the human population are urgently needed. Genetics...Gene therapy boosts cancer chemotherapy
...se-2 human trials, that combines gene therapy with radiation therapy. "The radiation therapy approach appears to be quite effective, aiming a powerful anticancer arsenal at the tumor," ...Dietary change may prevent the most serious form of prostate cancer
...isease can be treated with either prostatectomy or radiation therapy. While almost all men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer survive for more than five years, only 34 percent of men diagnosed after the disease has spread to distant organs are alive after five years, according to the American Cancer So...Findings support shorter course of radiation therapy after breast lumpectomy
A shorter, more convenient course of radiation therapy after breast lumpectomy appears to be just...o a consensus about the most appropriate length of radiation therapy that a patient should receive. In the United States, radiation is delivered in smaller doses...Medical physicist treats spinal tumors faster with new procedure
...s a tumor's location to deliver a powerful dose of radiation that avoids healthy areas of the spinal cord, kidn...compressive surgery require multiple lower does of radiation to protect the spinal cord while treating the tumor. To treat the tumor more effectively, the resear...Gene therapy may increase cancer cure rates, medical physicists show
...ination of two medical procedures-gene therapy and radiation therapy--can increase cancer cure rates by signifi...compared to the cure rates offered by conventional radiation therapy alone, a Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) team has concluded. The researchers present...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
...Alnawaz Rehemtullah, Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology, "To see cancer at a molecular level, and to see in real-time if a new drug is working, is very exciting. And soon, that ability may increase the chance that only the best drugs make it to clinical trials." U-M CCC director Max Wicha, M.D.,...Making cancer cells susceptible to therapeutic attack
...fenses against tumors, as well as chemotherapy and radiation therapy, more effective in combating cancer," said... standard clinical course is to change the drug or radiation strategy, but that may not be feasible or useful. As an alternative, based on the studies Cook is un...Blocking pathway overcomes tumor vessel resistance to radiation
...e blood vessels more susceptible to the effects of radiation and improve tumor control, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cance...ercome an ironic discovery found in the study. The radiation therapy intended to kill the blood vessels that feed cancer cells can actually trigger a chemical pa...