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Elasticity imaging identifies cancers and reduces breast biopsies

...Society (ACS) estimates that 212,920 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States this year. Early detection through screening is the best way to combat cancer at its early, most treatable stage. While mammography is the standard breast cancer screening exam, screening with magnetic resonanc...

Gene therapy study takes aim at prostate cancer

...ified to participate in this study are individuals diagnosed with high grade prostate cancer (Gleason grade 7 or higher), or who have a blood PSA level of 10ng/ml or higher and are contemplating surgery (radical prostatectomy). To register for the study or to obtain further information, patients may call 713-7...

Second opinion yields treatment changes for half of patients

...or a second opinion. The patients had already been diagnosed with breast cancer after having undergone initial evaluation, breast imaging and biopsy, and they already had a treatment recommendation from another hospital or care provider. Overall, 52 percent of the patients evaluated had one or more changes ...

Fat stem cells being studied as option for breast reconstruction

...14,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed by the end of 2006. For women who require mastectomy, the loss of one or both breasts can cause significant discomfort and psychosocial distress. More than 80,000 breast reconstruction operations are performed each year, according to American Society...

Inflammation markers identify fatigue in breast cancer survivors

...ing breast cancer is a daunting challenge to women diagnosed with the disease, but with advanced screening and treatment strategies, patients with early stage breast cancer are surviving longer. Breast cancer survivors are the largest group of patients to overcome any type of cancer in the United States. While...

New study calculates millions of years saved in lives of AIDS patients

... national surveillance and efficacy data for newly diagnosed adult AIDS patients under care in the United States from 1989 to 2003. They divided those years into "eras" corresponding to specific advances in AIDS care, and then used the simulation model to determine per-person survival time for each era, compar...

Combination therapy shows promising results in patients with advanced lung cancer

...er deaths. This year alone, 174,470 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States. Of those, 162,460 will die, according to the American Cancer Society. Only about 15 percent of people who get lung cancer reach five-year survival. Those with advanced disease usually survive less than a year. ...

Liquorice cancer care

...f primary livercancer and bile duct cancer will be diagnosed in the United States during2006, and around 16,200 people will die of liver cancer. Studies in mice by Zhi Yuan and his team at Nankai University, China, revealed that the liquorice compounds, glycerrhetinic acid and glycerrhizic acid, preferentiall...

More than drought affecting wheat yields

...handle. Ninety-five percent of these samples were diagnosed with the wheat streak mosaic virus. In addition, 5...es as any previous year," he said. Once a crop is diagnosed with one of the viruses, there is little the producer can do, Allen said. Widespread cases can reduc...

Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders

...sion impairment. Although the number of children diagnosed with autism has increased dramatically over the past 12 years, the upward spiral may be due to better, more widespread understanding and diagnosis of the mental impairment, CDC experts said. Trichotillomania, which affects 3.4 percent of women, and s...

Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'

...nce members from any of the military services were diagnosed as positive for the hepatitis C virus, their doctors told them about Sjogren's study so they could learn more about joining it. If they decided to participate, Sjogren's team performed a liver biopsy, if one hadn't already been done, to see how advan...

Prevention is the best option: fighting autoimmune diseases

...isease in an attempt to fight it." IBD is usually diagnosed in children and young adults. It affects 1 in 200 people and an estimated 100,000 Australians and there is no cure. "Regulatory T cells have previously been difficult to quantify in humans and conventional methods could identify fewer than a third o...

Researchers unveil strategy for creating actively-programmed anti-cancer molecules

...ast cancer can be a treatable disease, but only if diagnosed early. Since the prognosis grows considerably wors...ion indicate that more than 200,000 U.S. women are diagnosed with new cases of invasive breast cancer each year and that more than 40,000 of these women will die...

Gene therapy injected into the brains' of mice with Huntington's disease

...approach to forestall disease progression in newly diagnosed HD patients by delivering potent trophic factors with effects that are long-term and non-toxic." "If these results can be replicated in HD patients, it would represent a significant advance in the treatment of this tragic disease", agreed Dr. Jeffr...

Gene screen for breast cancer better than pathologist's 'eye'

...fluid samples, taken from high-risk women or those diagnosed with breast cancer, were obtained through a process called ductal lavage, a saline wash via a catheter threaded through openings in the nipple leading to the vast network of breast ducts. Cytopathologists correctly identified seven of 21 (33 percen...

Combined treatment extends life expectancy for lung cancer patients

...mplanted into the cancer or near it. Patients were diagnosed with Stage I or II lung cancer, meaning the lung cancer in most cases had not spread and was usually smaller than 3 centimeters, though not in all cases. While this study did not address the timing of combined treatment, brachytherapy radiation was t...

New findings offer more complete view of breast cancer gene mutations in US population

...proximately 200,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer. The majority of breast cancer cases are caused by genetic changes that occur during a woman's lifetime and not by genetic mutations inherited from her parents. However, researchers estimate that inherited mutations play a role in ...

Internal body clock dictates timing of different types of stroke

...d one of three types of stroke for the first time, diagnosed by brain scan. These patients' data had been collected on a stroke register, showing that cerebral infarction, where blood flow to brain arteries is restricted, was the most common type of stroke. The rate was 89 per 100,000 of the population. S...

Stanford doctors advance in bid to turn mice stem cells into blood vessels

...em cells." With an estimated 70 million Americans diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, the need for arterial vascular grafts continues to grow. In 2002, there were 1.5 million medical procedures done that required replacement blood vessels. "This is an exciting, emerging research front," said John Cook, MD...

New genetic test for breast cancer

... and Canada. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women, with an estimated 235,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer expected in the United States and Canada in 2006. Nearly 140,000 of these women will have estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer that has not yet spread to the lymph no...

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