New therapy may give options to those with neuroendocrine tumors
...- principal investigator on the trial. "Other than surgery to remove a tumor, treatment for these cancers usually focuses on easing the symptoms. It is critical to find therapies that offer treatment options for these cancers." Today, only 18 percent of patients diagnosed with metastatic neuroendocrine canc...Ablation therapy improves survival for patients with inoperable liver tumors
...from colorectal cancer. Patients were treated with surgery when possible. Inoperable tumors were treated with ablation or a combination of surgery and ablation. The median survival time for patients who had surgery alone was 39 months. For patien...Aspirin use may protect against colon cancer recurrence, reduce risk of death
...mized trial of two chemotherapy regimens following surgery for colon cancer. They all had stage III disease that had spread to lymph nodes but not elsewhere in the body. The researchers interviewed the patients about medication use and lifestyle midway through their chemotherapy, and again six months after t...Exercise reduces risk of recurrence and death in early stage colon cancer patients
...40 to 50 percent in the 2 1/3 to 3 years following surgery and chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer, reported a team headed by Jeffrey Meyerhardt, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The data (abstract 3534) is from the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALBG) and will be presented during a poster discus...Procedure setting, technique and cost are key for effective colorectal cancer screening
...clinicians used similar equipment in an ambulatory surgery center. The median detection rate of adenomas--potentially pre-cancerous polyps--was 25.2 percent among the screened subjects. The investigators noted lower than average polyp detection rates among clinicians with shorter than average procedural wit...Expandable electrodes safe and effective for radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors
...e and effective, making it a useful alternative to surgery in selected patients, say researchers from the Uni...hat it can also be considered as an alternative to surgery in selected cases," said Dr. Cabassa. Dr. Cabassa will present the full results of the study on May ...Physiotherapists cure incontinence
...ysiotherapy as a first option, but the outcomes of surgery have not always been positive with success rates a... tried first, which carries no risks, and keep the surgery option open to people who fail pelvic floor muscle training. "To find out how effective physiotherap...New MRI techniques may help patients avoid knee surgery
...s to their knees may be able to avoid arthroscopic surgery by having a 3-Tesla MRI examination instead, two s...2 meniscal tears that were found when arthroscopic surgery was performed, said Tom Magee, MD, from Neuroskeletal Imaging in Merritt Island, FL, and the lead au...Surgery no better than rehabilitation for low back pain
...he UK. 176 patients were assigned to spinal fusion surgery and 173 to an intensive programme of rehabilitatio...ved rehabilitation and surgery, whereas just seven surgery patients received both treatments. There appeared to be a slight advantage to surgical treatment, bu...Facial trauma may cause significant social and behavioral problems
...sing, M.D., professor and section chief of plastic surgery in the Department of Surgery. The subjects had lacerations slightly over one inch or larger and/or a fractured facial bone that required surgery. "Emotionally, these patients are reporting higher levels of depression, anxiety, and discomfort regard...University of Pittsburgh study shows using expanded critera donors is safe
.... Michael E. de Vera, M.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute and lead author of the study, concluded based on these research findings that the use of HBV and/or HCV positive livers for organ donation is safe. HBV recurrence is minimal...Patients' favorite music during surgery lessens need for sedative
... favorite music required much less sedation during surgery than did patients who listened to white noise or operating room noise, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published in May. The senior author, Zeev Kain, M.D., professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, said previous studies have shown...Studies suggest that donation criteria can be expanded
...l stay, incidence of acute rejection, infection or surgery complications. The study involved 31 transplants from conventional donors and nine transplants from extreme kidney-pancreas donors. "Our results suggest that the pancreas donor criteria can be liberalized to include selected female donors who are ove...Transplanting kidneys which have stones poses little risk to organ's viability
...rformed an average of 10.5 months after transplant surgery in 14 patients showed no stones in six patients, stable stone size in four patients and increase in stone size averaging 2.9 millimeters in four patients. No loss of the transplanted kidneys occurred due to stone obstruction in the patients studied. ...Enhancing innate immunity improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...s off sections of the intestine, and patients need surgery to eliminate those blockages. Korzenik and co-principal investigator Brian K. Dieckgraefe, M.D., Ph.D., a Washington University gastroenterologist and staff physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, have been investigating the treatment of Crohn's disea...Increase in heart surgery mortality from SSRIs or depression?
... (SSRI) prior to undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery have significantly higher death and rehospitalizat...700 heart patients, that physicians treating heart surgery patients should not only screen for depression prior to surgery, but that they should also pay close...Patients with metabolic syndrome, moderate coronary calcium have greater risk of blocked arteries
...whether it is necessary to consider angioplasty or surgery at that time. To test whether the presence of metabolic syndrome might help identify patients at highest risk for coronary artery blockage, the researchers evaluated 1,043 patients without any known heart disease who underwent a coronary calcium sca...Psychosocial aspects of genetic testing for hereditary cancers meeting at Jefferson June 9-10
...ld I have genetic testing? What are my options? Is surgery an effective choice? How can I help my children? What do I tell my health insurance company and my employer? These are some of the questions confronting individuals who have a history of breast and ovarian cancer in the family and who are considered...Mayo Clinic Proceedings studies risk factors for blood clots
...fter the surgery. The risk of blood clots prior to surgery and after surgery is explored in several articles in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, providing patients ...Skin infections caused by MRSA are cured more often when treated with Pfizer's ZYVOX
...d professor and vice chairman of the department of surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "These data also reinforce the value of having a pill for patients which may allow patients to leave the hospital sooner on oral therapy." Because of the oral availability of ZYVOX, patients in the ZYVOX arm ha...