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Understanding The Predictors Of Prostate Cancer

...sible and clinically relevant predictor of disease recurrence in patients with GS seven prostate cancer. They hope this will help doctors in the management of patients with GS seven prostate cancer....

Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

...ll patients diagnosed with the disease will have a recurrence after the initial surgery. Scientists tested vacc...ceived the vaccinations were still alive without a recurrence of the disease. This compares to 68 percent of those who did not receive the injections. Researche...

Combination Therapy Effective In Improving Lung Cancer Survival

...ho received no therapy. Researchers also found a recurrence or second primary cancer in 23 percent of the treatment group and 26 percent of the non-treatment group. Of the 482 patients who received treatment, only 10 patients experienced toxicity problems. Treatment was stopped if patients experienced a grade...

Prevention Of Recurrent Leg Ulcers

...onal benefit in terms of venous ulcer healing, but recurrence rates were significantly reduced from 28 percent to 14 percent at one year. 500 patients were assessed by venous duplex imaging, or an ultrasound, and were randomly assigned either compression treatment alone or in combination with surgery. Venous l...

The Benefits Of Dual Therapy for Patients With Prostate Cancer

...prostate cancer death, and higher survival without recurrence of cancer. Specifically, the survival of the combi...ation-only group. Rates of survival without cancer recurrence were 82 percent in the combination group vs. 57 percent in the radiation-only group. Lastly, there w...

Tissue Transfer For Treatment Of Massive Skin Cancers

... patients had no evidence of disease. Twelve had a recurrence in the same area and three had a nearby recurrence. The cancer was found to have spread to other areas of the body in three patients.Thus researchers conclude that free tissue transfer yields acceptable survival with functional and cosmetic outcomes....

The Benefits Of Chemotherapy For Women With Ovarian Cancer

...otherapy improves survival and reduces the risk of recurrence in women with stage I ovarian cancer // (cancer th...djuvant chemotherapy had a lower risk of death and recurrence than those who did not receive chemo. They also found adequate surgical staging, or taking biopsies,...

Shorter Radiation Schedules Found To Be More Effective For Patients With Breast Cancer

...rs say they are currently collecting data on tumor recurrence and quality of life in the patients who underwent the four-week course of radiation therapy....

Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Increase The Risk For Osteoporosis

...t disease that has spread or reduce // the risk of recurrence after surgery may be at increased risk for developing osteoporosis. The research showed men treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) after prostate cancer run a higher risk of developing the bone-thinning disease most common among women. Men...

Drug For Breast Cancer Found To Reduce Risk of Heart Disease

...has been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence by as much as 50 percent. Researchers conducted a study to evaluate whether tamoxifen reduces the risk of heart disease. For the study the medical records of 3,030 breast cancer patients treated with tamoxifen and 4,233 patients with other cancers n...

Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Effectively Treated With Chemotherapy

... similar reductions in breast cancer mortality and recurrence from regimens with aggressive chemotherapy. However, only 8 percent of patients studied were ages 65 or older, and about half of new breast cancer cases occur in the age group. Thus researchers conclude saying that based on their data clinicians sho...

New Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B

...ake the patient infected for a lifetime, with much recurrence of the symptoms. The side effects of the treatme...nitored for some time after treatment to check the recurrence of the illness. Reference: Food and Drug Administration, US, News Release, May 2005...

Aspirin may reduce he risk of colon cancer

...Society of Clinical Oncology said that the risk of recurrence reduces by about 50% for the patients who took regular aspirin after surgery, once they were diagnosed as suffering from colon cancer. Colon and rectum together form the colorectal area. That is why often colon cancer is also called colorectal cance...

Risk of breast cancer may be lowered by diet

...isk of breast cancer. Researchers had studied the recurrence or relapse of cancer in postmenopausal women with ... diets could go a long way in reducing the risk of recurrence of cancer in breast cancer patients. Reference: American Society of Clinical Oncology, Press Releas...

Genetics linked to leukemia treatment success rate in children

...genotype was responsible for treatment failure and recurrence of the disease. The research will be published in the new edition of the journal Blood....

Women with borderline ovarian tumors can still preserve their fertility

...he borderline ovarian tumors do have a tendency of recurrence within 70 months of the treatment, there are no reasons to believe that being pregnant is going to help or affect the situation in any way. Reference: European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, news release, June 2005...

Tumour marker for detecting early Recurrence of Thyroid cancer may be soon available

Early recurrence of thyroid cancer may be detectable using a blood ...ign of a tumor, about 80 percent of patients had a recurrence of their cancer within three to five years,” says first author Richard T. Kloos, associate professor...

Antidepressants linked to reduced risk of heart attacks

...th lessening of risk of death from heart attack or recurrence of non fatal heart attacks by about 43% in patients. The risk of death from recurrence of myocardial infarction was reduced by about 28% in patients under the influence of SSRIs than othe...

Chronic Sinusitis May Be Related To Nasal Mucus

...e mucus behind might predispose patients for early recurrence of the chronic sinus infection, said the scientists. Source: Newswise Medindia on Chronic sinus infection: Further information Chronic sinus infection: This is the condition of chronic or prolonged inflammation in the sinuses of the head. Chr...

Acupuncture May Be An Effective Treatment Against Tension-Headaches

...e dealt with the over-the-counter painkillers, but recurrence in a severe form needs intervention from the physicians. www.medindia.net/alternativemedicine/ index.asp?Choice=Acupuncture...

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