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PET Scanner detects more Vaginal cancer than CT scans

... can detect twice the number of vaginal cancer and cancerous lymph//nodes than CT scans. This was the finding ...shing papers showing that PET scans picked up more cancerous lymph nodes in patients with cervical cancer," Grigsby says. PET scans and CT scans have different...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

...cer of the testes—has been surgical removal of the cancerous testicle (hemi-castration) followed by three weeks radiotherapy. However, patients treated in this way and followed up for up to 30 years have shown increased risk of cancer in another organ and heart disease that begins after 15 years. Professor Oli...

Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

...cer of the testes—has been surgical removal of the cancerous testicle (hemi-castration) followed by three weeks radiotherapy. However, patients treated in this way and followed up for up to 30 years have shown increased risk of cancer in another organ and heart disease that begins after 15 years. St Bartholom...

Scientists Identify Cancer Pathway

...does lead to tumour growth in chickens and created cancerous cells in the cultured system. In the study, they f..., it degrades the connective tissue that holds the cancerous cell in place. The build-up of MT1-MMP also activates an enzyme called MMP2, which further degrades ...

Making operation and recovery time shorter

...eons have come up with a new technique of removing cancerous kidneys through a small incision with the help of their hands and a special camera and instuments. This is the hand-assisted Laproscopic technique, which can be done in significantly less time than the standard laproscopic procedure. The research, b...

Expandable metal stents used in digestive cancers

...f. However Dr. Baron asserts that in most cases of cancerous blockages, the benefit of expandable stents outweigh their risks. Expandable metal stents have also been used to bypass blockages in the bile ducts, thereby sparing the patient more invasive procedures and long periods of hospitalization, says ...

Scientists use plant hormones to fight cancer

...y cells were produced. By targeting only the cancerous cells, synthetic drugs based on IAA, called prodrugs, would be highly effective in killing the cancerous cells and would not produce side effects such as hair loss and nausea unlike conventional chemothera...

Oral Sex may carry AIDS related Cancer Virus

According to researchers in California, the cancerous skin lesions known as Kaposi's sarcoma are densely related to HIV/AIDS, but the virus that causes Kaposi's was widespread among US gay men before the HIV epidemic ever started. Their study also exposed that far into the HIV when more men were impleme...

Lessening operation and recovery time

...eons have come up with a new technique of removing cancerous kidneys through a small incision with the help of their hands and a special camera and instuments. This is the hand-assisted Laproscopic technique, which can be done in significantly less time than the standard laproscopic procedure. The research, be...

Nanocells cancer combination therapy acts as chemotherapy as well as anti-angiogenic drug

...f the `nanocells' to wreak complete destruction of cancerous cells is aided by the cancerous cells themselves. "Tumour vessels suck things into their environment and the nanocells get trapped i...

Chocolate To Combat Cancer: So Indulge!

... in chocolate // can stop the constant division of cancerous cells in laboratory trials. The study, published in the April issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, found that the compound pentameric procyanidin inhibits cancer's progression by targeting and deactivating the proteins involved in the proliferatio...

Radio-guided Neurosurgery for treatment of Brain cancer

... in the patient. The isotope then latches onto the cancerous tissue in the brain, making it glow like a light i...o a patient with a brain tumor is that some of the cancerous tissue will escape the notice of the surgeon, because in some cases the tumor closely resembles the ...

Flu Vaccine Can Be Used To Treat Lung Cancer

...ncer, as it cannot distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells. But now they had succeeded in altering an existing influenza vaccine so that it acted on the immune system like a sparkplug, giving it a kick-start. Then the system becomes so highly sensitised that it could recognise cancer cells and destro...

Gene Fusion Test to screen children’s with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemi

...ia cells and allows the bone marrow to produce non cancerous cells. Chemotherapy can get rid of the leukaemia cells in about three-quarters of people with ALL, putting them into disease remission. This new gene test helps to detect more resistant and serious ALL disease which helps to provide more effective ...

First PET-CT guided radiotherapy in India was performed by Apollo Hospitals

...t reveals the size, shape and location of abnormal cancerous growths. By using the PET-CT, the cancer is localized and the radiotherapy is coupled with the procedure, Radiotherapy sends radiation to the scanned and marked site leading to killing and destroying of cancer cells and tissues by radiation. The su...

Microscopic Nanobombs Blow Apart Breast Cancer Cells

...e shockwaves generated by the explosions kill "the cancerous cells as well as the biological pathways that carry instructions to generate additional cancerous cells." Panchapakesan said that they were working to direct these therapies towards treating breast...

CT scan hope for head and neck cancer patients

...y defined borders on the CT scan as opposed to the cancerous nodes which were fuzzy. Based on these criteria 549 patients who were treated with radiotherapy at UF for advanced head and neck cancer underwent CT scans to either rule out surgery or advise it. Only about 341 patients needed surgery and 33 were spa...

Testicular Cancer Patients Have Improved Reproductive Outcomes After Treatment

...for those followed by surveillance alone after the cancerous testicle was removed was much higher (92 %). Assisted reproductive techniques have helped these patients to a larger extent (22 %).The study results highlight the finding that the ability to conceive has increased over the years. It would be importan...

Lung Cancer: Nutritional Intervention Comes To The Rescue

... who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The cancerous tumors found in D.H.'s lungs have shrunk to 10 % of what they were in 2000, according to last year's computed tomography (CT) scans. Pardini's previous research showed that omega-3 fatty acids significantly depressed the growth of human mammary, ova...

VELscope instrument to detect mouth cancer

... than the conventional white light in detection of cancerous lesions in the mouth. The VELscope would be very useful for early detection of oral cancer as better treatment is achieved when oral cancer is treated in its early stages. A clinical trial involving 400 patients is being undertaken using the new in...

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