Fine tuning drug levels in neuroblastoma patients is effective, St. Jude researchers show
...d. "And reducing the tumor size with topotecan and surgery means there is less risk that the cancer will develop resistance to the standard chemotherapy drugs that are subsequently administered." "Our results are a proof-of-principle that children who previously would not have benefited from topotecan may...Only transplant center that developed comprehensive protocol for liver transplants in kids with MSUD
...d Susan Jasin, Jakob's mother. "We knew transplant surgery had risks, but the alternative was a life that cou...et. A multi-disciplinary approach to treatment and surgery was utilized to plan for every conceivable situation to ensure the child remained healthy up until t...Cancer patients do better with surgeons, hospitals that treat higher volume
...gnificantly better outcome, at least after complex surgery for cancer. These findings support the centralization of oncology services."...Restoring flow to all blocked areas of the heart improves 5-year survival rate, study says
...ents to learn more about the fundamentals of heart surgery and recognize that surgeons are faced with a numbe...se," he said. "To the patient, the big decision is surgery or no surgery. Once that decision is made, they assume one operation is the same as another. But we'...Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for June 2005
... LOOKS FORWARD TO YARD WORK Lung volume reduction surgery is undergoing a renaissance as a treatment for emp...ECOVERY AND FEWER COMPLICATIONS "When it comes to surgery and how kids' bodies heal, it's important to realize that children are not small adults, and they re...Keyhole surgery is a safe option for colon cancer
Keyhole surgery can be safely used for the removal of tumours from...OGY. The safety and short-term benefits of keyhole surgery for colon cancer have been debatable. Minimally invasive surgery for cancer reduces surgical trauma ...Pregnant women at risk for injury in summer
...stantial with about 40 per cent of women requiring surgery and ten per cent staying in hospital for more than a week. "Treating pregnant women who sustain major trauma is very worrisome for both the patient, family, and health care professionals," says Redelmeier. "Because most medications and surgeries have...Study examines characteristics of cancers of the esophagus
...umor characteristics in 215 patients who underwent surgery for cancer of the lining of the far end of the esophagus from January 1992 to December 2002. Pathology reports were reviewed to determine whether there was adjacent Barrett mucosa and whether these tumors represented distinct tumor types. The resear...Some male breast cancer patients may have unnecessary radiotherapy
...ficant predictors for receiving radiotherapy after surgery included tumour size, the status of the margins around the tumour, whether chemotherapy was given and whether the nodes were affected," said Dr Macdonald. "But when we added the sex of the patient into the analysis we found a statistically higher pro...Researchers improve lung cancer survival rates
...inical trial has found that chemotherapy following surgery for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer signifi...cantly improves survival for the disease over just surgery alone. The research, funded by the Canadian Cancer Society and appearing in tomorrow's issue of the ...Conservative surgery preserves fertility in women with borderline ovarian tumours
...ws that fertility can be preserved if conservative surgery is used, a scientist said at the 21st annual confe... However, the recurrence rate with conservative surgery was quite high at 16.6% over an average 70-month period. "But we would recommend conservative surge...Drugs for blood pressure and seizures among treatments recommended for essential tremor
...shed in the June 28 print issue. For limb tremors, surgery can be an option if drug therapy is ineffective. E...ion to treat head or voice tremor. Another type of surgery called gamma knife thalamotomy lacked evidence to be recommended for treatment of essential tremor....Young athletes' post-concussion migraine may signal greater neurocognitive impairment
...hor Joseph Maroon, M.D., professor of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "We are concerned because even though headache may be noted as a symptom in the young athlete with a concussion, he or she may be allowed to return to play before the headache resolves and later may...Vaginal cancer detected more often with PET than CT scans
...ch as where to target radiation and whether to use surgery or chemotherapy. The results of this study suggest that the use of PET, or positron emission tomography, would make diagnosis of vaginal cancer much more accurate and allow better selection of treatment, according to study author Perry W. Grigsby, ...Thyroid-cancer test reveals recurrence early
...llicular or Hurthle cell thyroid cancer. Following surgery and radioactive iodine treatment, the patients were injected with Thyrogen and tested for Tg levels between January 1999 and March 2001. The patients were divided into three groups based on their Tg reading. Group 1 patients had Tg levels below 0.5,...New report calls for recovery units to boost surgery survival rates
...itals could improve survival rates following major surgery by streamlining their critical care units, accordi...could reduce the number of complications following surgery along with the average length of hospital stay. Measures such as 'fast-tracking' more patients throu...Jefferson neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists wrap radiation around spine for cancer pain relief
...hey couldn't treat before, often avoiding invasive surgery and speeding the patient's recovery. Neurosurgeon...as Jefferson University Hospital, used shaped beam surgery to treat the patient, a 46-year-old woman from Levittown, Pa., who had two tumors on her spine that ...New guidelines: Common drugs can calm essential tremor
...or, according to the guidelines. For limb tremors, surgery can be an option if drug therapy is ineffective. ".... Zesiewicz said. "However, patients who underwent surgery experienced more adverse side effects, so the procedures are only recommended for those who do not r...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
...r dosage of medication, a patient having the wrong surgery performed, or errors impacting a larger group, as when a hospital fails to properly sterilize surgical equipment. 6) Palliative treatment for the terminally ill The concern of doctors over appropriate dosages of pain medication when it could poten......ncision about half the length used for traditional surgery works just as well in removing diseased thyroids, ...s with cancerous or benign thyroid disease who had surgery between September 2003 and May 2004 at Medical College of Georgia Medical Center or the Veterans Aff...