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Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

... seminoma—a cancer 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 yea...

Surgery Offers Better Treatment For Third Degree Piles

...rs mostly between the ages of 45 to 65. Surgical removal and Rubber band ligation (RBL) are the mostly used procedure for treatment of hemorrhoids. Surgical removal of severe hemorrhoids is more effective in the long run than tying them off with rubber bands, a les...

Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

... seminoma—a cancer 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 yea...

Its Possible To Grow Bone To Replace The Damaged Bone

.... Although this works well at the repair site, the removal operation is extremely painful and can produce serious complications. If the new method is confirmed in clinical studies, it will become possible to grow new bone for all types of repairs instead of removing it from existing bones. For people with se...

Patients Are Given Catheter Longer Than Necessary

...patients. Doctors are responsible for ordering the removal of catheters, but research has shown that many of them forget which patients have catheters and how long they have them. The reminder system installed by the researchers helps doctors do the right thing, reports the research. The controlled trial, ...

Arsenic in drinking water

...ic from drinking-water. The technology for arsenic removal for piped water supply is moderately costly and re...d-tested. There are no proven technologies for the removal of arsenic at water collection points such as wells, hand-pumps and springs. Simple technologies for...

New Treatment Option For Testicular Cancer

...inoma. Stage I seminoma is typically treated by // removal of the testicle followed by radiation. Radiation, though, poses a risk of developing a second cancer in another organ up to 20 years later. Researchers randomized more than 540 patients to receive a single course of the drug carboplatin and more tha...

New Treatment Option For Kidney Cancer

...s, the standard of care for kidney cancer has been removal of the kidney. Recently, partial removal has also been used successfully in some patients. But surgery is not ideal for all patients. Researc...

A Settlement Over Stem Cell Controversy Through Scientific Research

... reprogrammed state would be maintained even after removal of the embryonic stem cell DNA, currently a technical hurdle, the hybrid cells could theoretically be used to produce embryonic stem cells lines that are tailored to individual patients without the need to exploit human embryos. The hybrid cells cre...

Encephalitis Death Toll In U.P. Crosses 200 Mark.

... - the epicentre of the disease - had demanded the removal of pigs from residential areas. "Yes, we had decided to launch a drive against the proliferation of pigs in residential areas; but then local legislators have come in the way to pressurise the administration to defer its plan," a district official ...

Radio-guided Neurosurgery for treatment of Brain cancer

...ads to enormous risks and the success of the tumor removal entirely depends on the surgeon’s skill. By using the new technology the effectiveness of tumor removal is highly successful. The new procedure is done by inserting intravenously, an isotope called tech...

Initiation Of New Study To Help Children With Sickle Cell Anaemia

... with the less painful and more convenient monthly removal of blood (phlebotomy) at a medical facility. Half of the children in SWiTCH will remain on the standard treatment (transfusions and chelator) while the other half will be treated with the alternative treatment (hydroxyurea and phlebotomy). The stud...

Aromatase Inhibitors drug Femara after Tamoxifen therapy protects from breast cancer recurrence

...r. Treatment of breast cancer initially involves removal of the entire breast or part of the breast with the cancer lump followed by Radiation therapy and Chemotherapy. Cytotoxic drugs are given as chemotherapy for patients with breast cancer; usually 6 cycles of chemotherapeutic drugs are given such as Cy...

Recurrence of aggressive uterine cancer reduced by new form of therapy

...nt complete surgical staging, or hysterectomy with removal of lymph nodes and fat pads. Cancer recurred in 43 percent of early stage patients who did not receive chemotherapy, while in the 20 percent of patients who received platinum-based chemotherapy there were no recurrences. About 14 patients were spared...

Minimally Invasive Ear Implant Procedures Are Better

...lved a large scalp flap, mastoidectomy (a surgical removal of the mastoid air cells), posterior tympanotomy via the facial recess, creating an opening in the cochlea, and insertion of the electrode into the scala tympani. Researchers in Texas propose minimally invasive cochlear implantation (MICI) as a tech...

Wisdom Teeth: To Be Or Not To Be?

... position in the mouth, dentists advise that early removal reduces the risk of developing potentially serious infections in later life....

Prostate cancer recurrence attributed to obesity and rate of weight gain

...ans to consider additional diagnostic tests. After removal of the prostate gland, however, the PSA level should be undetectable. Obese patients had elevated PSA levels much sooner after surgery – 12 months earlier – than their lighter counterparts. The incorporation of body mass index at time of diagnosis ...

Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Helps In Removing Thyroid Cysts

...commonly develops nodules or becomes very big. Its removal is complicated by the presence of multiple vessels, including the vessels supplying the brain and head, and nerves, which affect speech. Conventional operation leads to a long incision (collar incision) stretching from one side of the front of neck ...

Radiation therapy effective against Eye cancer

...ier, the standard treatment for Uveal melanoma was removal of the eye. But, the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS), a multicenter national trial reported in 2001 that radiation was a safe and effective alternative to removing the eye. The current study involved plaque radiotherapy, which is the mos...

Cryosurgery – Freeze Therapy For Lung Cance

... undergone in patients where conventional surgical removal of tumor mass is not possible. It is estimated that about 20% of patients removing the diseased lung is not possible due to severe breathing problems for whom Cryosurgery would be helpful. The cryosurgery procedure involves making a cut of about 12 ...

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