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Vitamin B12 can help in detecting cancers

In some of the cancer patients the Tumors can't be easily deected. A new procedure being done at Mayo Clinic using vitamin B12 that helps doctors locate hard to find tumors. During the processes a patient is injected with radioactive vitamin B12. After three hours a gamma camera takes pictures of the body. Dr. Collins treated a patient with breast cancer and he says that, "The cancer stan...

Better prostate cancer detection

Recently a more extensive biopsy detecting technique for prostate cancers has been found out by researchers. At Ohio State University, researchers said that it is better to take more samples.// Dr.Robert Bahn...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

Researchers in Germany have developed a new risk assessment methodology to detect any anomaly in heart beat rythm and patient's risk of cardiac death. ECG is the basic data with which patient's risk of cardiac death can be determined and analysed by the computer.The time interval between successive heartbeats is the first variable to be calculated.// When the programme has complet...

Early detection of prostate cancer

A new study, conducted by teams in Stockholm and Boston, looked at the relationship between prostate-specific antigen, or PSA (the chemical currently used as a ‘marker’ for prostate cancer progression), and two other blood proteins. It was found that men with prostate cancer who could not be detected by the PSA test could potentially be picked up by measuring levels of the two oth...

Early detection of heart attack

Researchers have found a new test to assess chest pain is accurate in more rapid diagnosis of a heart attack.Chest pain does not always signify a heart attack. It can be caused by indigestion or a panic attack. But the symptom is always treated as a medical emergency, and a series of tests is given to the patient to determine whether they have indeed suffered a heart attack.// These...

Detecting Lung Cancer In Its Initial Stages

Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death worldwide, accounting for more than 1.3 million deaths a year. // Since the disease is hard to detect in early and treatable stages, most cases are found only after the cancer has spread. Studies have shown CT scans can identify the disease in an early stage in individuals considered at high risk for lung cancer, but they also identify m...

Detecting brain aneurysms

An aneurysm is an abnormal dilation of a blood vessel. This involves all layers of the vessel wall. Aneurysms pose a risk to health due to their potential to rupture, thrombose or embolize. The most common blood vessels involved are the abdominal and thoracic aorta, and brain. Potential blood vessel problems in the brain can be detected by non-invasive techniques, but only if they are abo...

Detection of Cancer

A simple blood test which may allow the early detection of all forms of cancer has been developed by the British research team.Similar to a cholesterol test, the 'C-Test' will be evaluated in a clinical trial in Edinburgh over the next 10 months. It is based on scientific work by the John Baskin's School of Medical Research at the Engalnd National University. Professor Rodrigues Pa...

New device for detecting artery blockages

According to a recent study a device was found using new technology which helps prevent stroke. One important way of screening people for potential stroke involves looking, by ultrasound, at any blockages in the carotid arteries that serve the brain.// Researchers at Texas University in the US have pioneered the use of a portable device, based upon a technique called Power Doppler Imagi...

Detecting Colorectal Cancer

An innovative test to detect colorectal cancer may be certain and more comfortable than current methods. Researchers in Boston, have developed a new technique that identifies a specific protein in a patient's stool that is only present in cancerous colorectal cells. Researchers say the screening method may prove more reliable// than the standard tests, colonoscopy and fecal-blood assessme...

Camera gives hope for detection of breast cancer

Researchers at the Hopkins University have observed a high resolution camera which detects tumours and may not appear on standard mammography. They have been comparing mammography with a technique called scintimammography, which involved the injection of a radioactive tracer chemical.// Scintimammography, is good at distinguishing between malignant and benign tumours, has been done on a s...

Associated scan for detecting ovarian cancer spread

Researchers have found that two types of scan are better than one when it comes to detecting spread of ovarian cancer within the abdominal cavity. Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning is useful// for detecting the activity of tumour tissue, while computed tomography (CT) is good for imaging anatomical detail. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical School have found that combining the...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

Glaucoma, according to doctors, is a disease of the eye, which has no early warning signs and many affected patients are unaware they have the disease until it has advanced. And once someone has lost his or her vision from glaucoma, it cannot be regained. Researchers in New York and Sweden, focusing on a previous study called The Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial, conducted a study which look...

Early detection of colorectal cancer may be hindered by coloured toilet disinfectants

A new study published in the British Medical Journal has argued that the cause of failure in detecting colorectal cancers at an early stage could be attributed to coloured toilet disinfectants. Researchers claimed that nine out of ten bowel and colon cancers detected early can be successfully treated and that once the cancer has spread cure rates drop dramatically. The National programme/...

Early Detection Of Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the number two cause of cancer death among American men. A report shows that, in patients who have received definitive local therapy, prostate cancer recur in 21% of them. Treatment for recurrent prostate cancer are based on whether the disease is localized or includes distant metastases. However the presence of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) or rising PSA has proven t...

Awareness increase Prostate cancer detection

Occurrence of prostate cancer is common among older men. Being the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in men, after skin cancer, it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men, after lung cancer. Because of better detection there has been a increase in number of detected cases. Most men are uncomfortable as the screening consists of digital rectal exam and a prostate-specific...

Skin Cancer “Reflection” Detectin

Doctors agree that early detection is important for preventing disease. In the future, skin cancer detection may be as easy as mirrors with no tricks, just light.Jim Hattaway is a nine-year survivor of melanoma. He’s lucky doctors were able to treat him despite a delayed diagnosis. "They never found a primary, which is what you call the skin cancer as it first forms on the surface...

Early Detection of Lung Cancer

Health officials may be one step closer to a widespread screening policy aimed at detecting lung cancer in its earliest and most treatable phase.// If further studies confirm findings from Italian researchers, doctors may one day use a combination of spiral computed tomography and positron emission tamography scanning to uncover the cancer before it becomes more difficult to treat....

Photographs An Effective Tool In Detecting Skin Cancer

Researchers say atypical nevi are the strongest risk factors for melanoma skin cancer.// Previous research also shows patients have a better chance of survival if melanoma is detected early. New research shows patients who use photographs of their own skin for reference are more likely to keep better track of new or changed moles. Researchers in New York studied 50 patients who had five...

Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

Researchers say they now think they have discovered a way to detect prostate cancer earlier and more accurately. A protein called the early // prostate cancer antigen, or EPCA can indicate the earliest changes that occur in cells during the development of cancer . However specialists, says one of the problems with using PSA testing as an indictor of prostate cancer is that PSA levels of...

Early Detection Of Facial Abnormalities in a Fetus

A cleft happens when the tissues of the face fail to fuse during gestation. It is a repairable birth defect. Cleft lip and palate are the most common facial malformation in newborns. It affects about one in 700 babies.//New research shows fetal magnetic resonance imaging may be more accurate at detecting cleft lip and palate than a sonogram. The detection rates when using sonography for...

Mammograms The Best In Detecting Breast Cancer

A new study shows women who have their breast cancer detected by a mammogram are less likely to have their cancer come back in other parts of the body.// Researchers studied more than 2,500 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer 9.5 years ago. Results of the study show women whose tumors were detected by mammograms had a better disease-free survival than women whose tumors were det...

Early Detection Of Lung Cancer

Diagnosing lung cancer before it’s in a more advanced stage is key to survival of patients say researchers based on findings of a recent study.// While a CT scan can detect early lung cancer, researchers wanted to determine if it is a cost-effective option. A new study conducted by researchers who wanted to look at the cost-effectiveness of a CT scan for high-risk patients. The research...

Detecting Lung Cancer Early

Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death worldwide, accounting for more than 1.3 million deaths a year. // Since the disease is hard to detect in early and treatable stages, most cases are found only after the cancer has spread. Studies have shown CT scans can identify the disease in an early stage in individuals considered at high risk for lung cancer, but they also identify m...

A New Way Of Detecting Osteoporosis

A new study shows panoramic X-rays can identify postmenopausal women with low skeletal bone mineral density. Dental panoramic X-rays // are taken for the diagnosis of conditions affecting the teeth and jaws in clinical practice worldwide, to look at the mandibular cortical shape and width and refer the appropriate women for further BMD testing. Researchers studied more than 300 women wh...

Gold to be used for cancer detection

Gold nanoparticles may be used to detect cancer, says a new study that is// published in the journal Nano Letters. The father and son research team had been able to bind the gold nanoparticles to the antibodies for cancer cells, a process that will make the tracing of cancer cells much easier. Often cancer cells have a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor (EFGR) o...

Early detection of bed sores possible

New research can now help the clinicians to predict which wounds like bedsores// are likely to turn chronic. Bed sores, also known as pressure sores or pressure ulcers, affect people mostly when they are lying on their beds in the hospital or at home without much movements. Bedsores arise from poor circulation problems and people with diabetes, who are mostly bedridden. About 5-10% of...

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

Early recurrence of thyroid cancer may be detectable using a blood test to detect// a protein called ‘Thyroglobin”(Tg) according to a study published by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. The findings were published June 21 online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & M...

Detecting DNA Damage With In-Vivo Alkaline Comet Assay

The comet assay has gained rapid importance in detecting various forms of DNA damage and repair.// The conventional methods have numerous disadvantages and are time consuming, resource intensive and require a large proliferating cell population. The comet assay attracts adherents by it’s simplicity, speed, versatility and economy and is an ideal alternative supplementary in-vivo study...

Early detection of alcohol abuse is better option for treatment

Speakers at the Congress for the International Society for Biomedical Research// on Alcoholism in Mannheim, Germany, while presenting their research paper on alcohol abuse and cure had said that early detection of alcohol abuse and treatment is more beneficial than any other forms of treatment. Researchers suggest that there is a need to use newly emerging biomarkers and detailed quest...

MRI with nanoparticles highly sensitive in detecting prostate cancer metastases

High-resolution MRI with magnetic nanoparticles is highly sensitive in detecting clinically occult lymph-node metastases in prostate cancer, according to a new report. In fact, routine use of this modality preoperatively could obviate many unneeded surgeries.// The nanoparticles, which are given intravenously 24 hours before scanning, work by binding to lymphatic cells. The particles only...

Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer may be detected earlier using a computer-assisted detection system ( CAD) , according to a recent study. CAD is a computer-based analysis designed to find breast abnormalities. // It identifies calcifications in the breast that appear only as tiny white specks on mammography film. These tiny white specks could be early cancers. Researchers reviewed the cases of 519 patient...

CT Pulmonary Angiography Scan More Effective In Detecting Dangerous Blood Clots In The Legs

Researchers now say an indirect CT venography ( CTV ) could identify blood clots in the legs that have the potential to break free, travel to the lung, and block an artery a life-threatening condition known as pulmonary embolism // as smaller arteries are not visible in a commonly used lung scan, CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA), which is used to detect the presence of these blood clots in...

Researchers Develop Device For Detecting Atherosclerotic Plaques

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center had developed a device that will use light emissions from body tissues to detect the inflammation that is //part of plaque formation in the condition of atherosclerosis. Now, in a study involving laboratory rabbits, a device that stimulates, collects and measures light emissions from body tissues has been able to detect the presence of infla...

Do Not Neglect Your Abdominal Pain/ Swelling - Help Your Doctor In Early Cancer Detection

A majority of cancer in women can be detected early if the early symptoms are not neglected and the right tests be ordered to diagnose the aggressiveness of the fast growing tumor. // Elderly women with ovarian cancer are twice as likely to visit a doctor and report symptoms such as abdominal swelling or pelvic pain. If these symptoms are taken into careful consideration, ovarian canc...

Patient Negligence - Significant Problem In The Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. Despite the awareness programmes and the massive screening strategies, it has not possible to eliminate the fear associated with the disease. Mammography is one of the routine tests // used in the early identification of the disease. However, a new study finds the number of women getting routine screening mammography may be l...

Digital Mammogram For Detection Of Breast Cancer In Women With Dense Breasts

Mammography is used for early detection of breast cancer and the health officials recommend women to undergo mammogram tests every year and self examination of the breasts for lumps every month for early diagnosis // of breast cancer. Early detection of cancer is necessary to start an early treatment which will give better treatment. Recent research study reported in the New England Jo...

Early Detection Of Prostate Cancer For Complete Recovery From Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting men and occurs in men 65 years or older. It is advised that Men above the age of 50 years should undergo the routine examination of prostate and also test for presence of // Prostate Specific Antigen, by monitoring the levels of PSA in blood. African-American men or men with a family history of the disease should begin regular prostate s...

PET Scanning can help in early detection of Alzheimer’s diseas

Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder with no known cause or cure, first diagnosed in 1901. From, what was known at that time, we have come a long way in understanding the disease process. // The disease is characterized by symptoms of memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, personality changes, disorientation and loss of language skills. Mild cognitive...

A Novel Method Of Detection Of High Nuclear Grade Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma

Elective nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) is considered appropriate for small renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumors; however, it is still difficult to detect high nuclear grade RCC preoperatively. // Although no specific tumor markers have been identified for RCC, immunosuppressive acidic protein (IAP) is a variable predictor of lymph node and distant metastasis in patients with RCC. At present...