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Emerging Therapies for Skin Cancer Treatment

...cancerous cells are specifically destroyed thereby sparing the healthy cells and minimizing side effects. This is a significant benefit over various forms of treatment that cannot distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells and therefore target both. Another benefit is that targeted therapies can be used...

Radiation Therapy Made More Compatible

...hile retaining the technique's hallmark feature of sparing healthy tissue outside that target. First, they ex...ntually be used to destroy selective targets while sparing healthy tissue,’ Dilmanian said. Said collaborator Eliot Rosen, a radiation oncologist at Lombardi C...

Sexual dysfunction does not spare even the young men.

... problem with the Middle-aged and older men, while sparing the young, college aged men. But now, Dr. Najah S. Musacchio, a fellow at Children's Memorial Hospital// in Chicago, went a step further in finding out if this problem could have hit even the young! To delve deeper and understand, Musacchio and f...

Canadians Grow Fatter By The Day

...m of obesity and being overweight In Canada is not sparing the country’s children either...

Methyl-DNA binding Proteins To Fight Cancer

...ristic markers. This will save resources and time, sparing the need of analyzing the entire genomic profile. In cancer therapy, chimeric Kaiso protein could be created. The ordinary Kaiso protein (via DNA methylated binding) inhibits the work of cancer suppressor genes. However, using the same properties o...

What Will Primary Care Look Like In England by 2015?

...n messages and regularly attend wellbeing centres, sparing doctors and nurses to spend more time with the sickest patients. The concept of "patients as partners in their own healthcare" would also become a reality. GP Dougal Jeffries envisions a return of a system based on social values. Expenditure on wea...

Radiology advance points way to non-invasive brain cancer treatment

...ls and penetrate them, down to their nuclei, while sparing the normal brain. Then, the patient's head is irradiated with X-rays. The whole brain is transparent to X-rays, while gadolinium is opaque. Then, where gadolinium is localized—in the nuclei of the cancer cells only—the “photoelectric effect" takes pl...

Rolling Stones Guitarist Wants Chemotherapy

...giving the patient a better chance of survival and sparing the trauma of chemotherapy as well as radiation therapy. ... www.medindia.net/news/ view_news_main.asp?x=5572 Radiation And Chemotherapy, A Better Option For Head And Neck Cancer: Radiation therapy has a better timbre of voice than patients ...

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

...giving the patient a better chance of survival and sparing the trauma of chemotherapy as well as radiation therapy. This is the first time that an attempt has been made to deliver a therapeutic agent against oral cancer...

Recurrence of aggressive uterine cancer reduced by new form of therapy

...gressive uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC) sparing the need for additional therapy in some patients. According to the study, it has been that a combination of platinum-based chemotherapy and vaginal radiation to be the most effective treatment for the disease. This has infact led to the establishme...

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

... claimed four lives in a week in Kolkata, not even sparing the city's upscale neighbourhoods. West Bengal health Chief Prabhakar Chatterjee has admitted that the fever that swept through some areas of south Kolkata is // dengue or brain fever. There have been reports of 4 casualties and blood tests have rev...

Expandable metal stents used in digestive cancers

...sed to bypass blockages in the bile ducts, thereby sparing the patient more invasive procedures and long periods of hospitalization, says Dr. Baron in his report published in the May 31st issue of the The New England Journal of Medicine....

Frequent Mammograms Can Decreases The Risk of Death

...urs to a degree that is likely to reduce the life- sparing potential of screening and they feel it is necessary to research the underlying factors that determine levels of screening use....

Artificial discs available as replacements for damaged discs

...ons through the the abdomen, just below the navel, sparing the large muscles of the back. Compared to traditional fusion surgery, inserting the disc takes lesser time at the operating table (about one and half years) and the patients are mobile right away contrary to those undergoing fusion surgery, who have...

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

...hout. The test catches 95 percent of cancers while sparing men without the disease painful, expensive biopsies"....

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