American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
... rest in a sanitarium, to a condition successfully cured by use of chemotherapy. The initial key step in the development of modern chemotherapy for tuberculosis was the demonstration in clinical trials, starting in 1946, that the antibiotic streptomycin might be a viable drug for the disease. The results...Gene expression pattern predicts multiple drug resistance, treatment failure in pediatric leukemia
... the most common form of childhood cancer, are not cured with the same drug therapy that cures the remaining 80 percent of children with this disease. A report on the study that produced this new information appears in the April issue of Cancer Cell. Drug resistance is a major cause of treatment failure, ...Surgery for children with sleep apnea improves quality of life
... authors write. "Even though not all children were cured of OSA (using PSG parameters), the improvement in QOL was nevertheless significant. This indicates that some of the effects of sleep-disordered breathing on QOL are not measured by the PSG."...Zevalin safe and effective for non-Hogdkin's lymphoma patients with advanced disease
... describes tumors that grow slowly, yet are rarely cured and often widespread at the time of diagnosis. The type and grade of the disease are important in helping physicians determine appropriate treatment for patients....Physiotherapists cure incontinence
...o took part in the study, the majority were either cured or significantly improved and were happy with the outcome. After one year about 80 per cent of the study participants who responded to a questionnaire indicated that they were still happy with the outcome of treatment. In all, 15 of the women went on...Skin infections caused by MRSA are cured more often when treated with Pfizer's ZYVOX
...lin-susceptible infections, the number of patients cured with ZYVOX was comparable to those cured with vancomycin. In addition, patients taking ZYVOX spent up to five fewer days on IV treatment bec...Visual screening could prevent 37,000 deaths from mouth cancer worldwide
...combination of betel leaf, lime, areca nut and sun cured tobacco) chewing in the population. Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan (International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France), Kunnambath Ramadas (Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India) and colleagues randomly selected 13 population clusters in th...Antibiotic treatment not necessary for majority of children with conjunctivitis
... after 7 days. 86% of the children were clinically cured in the antibiotic group compared with 83% in the placebo group. Even in children who had a bacterial infection, the clinical cure rate did not differ significantly between the antibiotic (85%) and the placebo groups (80%). The researchers suggest par...Hopkins researchers identify risk factors for prediction of lethal prostate cancer after recurrence
...reening, prostate cancer is treatable and is often cured by a surgical procedure called radical prostatectomy. However, as many as one-third of those who undergo surgery will eventually show signs that the cancer has recurred, said Freedland. The risk factors are based on: The amount of time, in months, ...Penn named a 'Breast Cancer Center of Excellence' by Department of Defense
...ndetected state. Consequently, cancers that appear cured may resurface as local or distant recurrences 10 to 20 years later. Breast cancer progression from disease onset to distant metastasis and recurrence is ultimately responsible for essentially all breast cancer deaths. "While tumor progression is a ...Children and adolescents with advanced cancer can make complex end-of-life care decisions
...r families. The program cares for children who are cured as well as children for whom treatment ultimately fails. The program is now developing a research-based "model of excellence" for end-of-life care that will guide not only staff members, but also the patient and family as they make decisions about th...Radiation after prostate cancer surgery increases survival
...ere not statistically significant. In patients not cured by radiation, the treatment delayed the need for further treatments by four years. "We have known for a long time that men who undergo surgery and are found to have cancer extending outside their prostate gland are at a very high risk for recurrence,...Doctors can halve dose of radiation and still cure Hodgkin's
...If caught early, Hodgkin's lymphoma can usually be cured and most patients are living many years after their diagnosis. However, they often must live with side effects caused by the treatment. In this study, doctors wanted to see if they could reduce the amount of radiation given to patients in order to cu...New analysis supports starting with VFEND for life-threatening fungal infections
...idered successful if the infection improved or was cured after 12 weeks of total therapy. Therapies that were used as salvage therapy included lipid formulations of amphotericin B, itraconazole, a dose reduction in amphotericin B, and other systemic antifungal therapy. Results of the Analysis Patterson e......can be completely obliterated," he says. AVMs were cured in three of 12 patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery in the past 10 years with an average of three treatments per year. AVMs in the rest of the group were reduced by an average of 64 percent. Side effects included persistent headaches in ...Fatherhood possible for many testicular cancer survivors, study finds
...0 to 40, has a high cure rate: 95% of patients are cured through treatment. Because many of these patients are diagnosed at an age when they are starting a family, the ability to father children after treatment is often a concern. However, there are little reliable data on post-treatment fertility availabl...Minimally invasive surgery may increase options for octogenarians with some lung cancers
...en detected at an early and localized stage may be cured with surgical resection. NSCLC accounts for about 75 percent of all lung cancers....Combination treatment for brain cancer not detrimental to patients' quality of life
...ies and is most relevant in patients who cannot be cured of disease". He continues, "This new treatment might be not only an effective approach for these patients, but also treatment without a detrimental effect on HRQOL during the first year of follow-up"....Mayo Clinic finds kidney cancer patients are unlikely to respond to potential treatment drug
...phobe kidney tumors, which are usually effectively cured by surgery -- not requiring additional therapy. Wanting to verify results found a 2004 study published in The Journal of Clinical Pathology, and another the same year in The Journal of Urology that reported frequent KIT expression in these tumor typ...Treatment method improves survival for advanced laryngeal cancer, U-M study finds
...atients with advanced laryngeal cancer will not be cured with chemotherapy and radiation. The survival rates for such patients have traditionally been poor. That's why these patients should be identified as early as possible. When we did that, we found that the survival rate for these patients was markedl...