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Radio-guided Neurosurgery for treatment of Brain cancer

Radio-guided Neurosurgery using a gamma probe for the treatment of brain cancer is the new technology developed by doctors at The Manipal Institute of Neurological Disorders at Manipal Hospital in Bangalore. // The new technique effectively removes the brain tumor. Removal of brain tumors surgically leads to enormous risks and the success of the tumor removal entirely depends on the s...

First PET-CT guided radiotherapy in India was performed by Apollo Hospitals

PET-CT guided radiotherapy for monitoring and treatment of cancer patients by doctors in Apollo Hospital. This PET-CT guided radiotherapy procedure was performed for the first time in India. // Apollo Cancer Hospital is one of the first hospitals in the country with a PET-CT guided radiotherapy technology, Director, Vijay Anand Reddy reported in a news conference. PET is a Positron Emiss...

Echocardiography-Guided Genetic Test Could Improve Screening For Lethal Heart Condition

Mayo Clinic researchers say that the distinctive features of the heart muscle could be used to accurately diagnose the presence of a genetic quirk that is linked to a lethal, inherited heart condition // called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Steve Ommen, M.D., director of Mayo’s HCM Clinic and co-lead investigator of the Mayo Clinic research team said that the currently available tes...

Image-Guided Biopsy Can Alter Clinical Decisions In Kidney Patients

Researchers from the University of Michigan say that percutaneous image-guided biopsy is of a great help in kidney disease and can help significantly in accurately// diagnosing and predicting clinical outcomes. The researchers arrived at these conclusions after reviewing reviewed 153 kidney biopsies in 126 patients. They found that the biopsy results altered the decisions in 60 percent of...

Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Therapy Proved Effective in CAP Cure

Lower serum procalcitonin levels were found to be associated with reduced length of antibiotic treatment for hospitalized patients with community-acquired //pneumonia (CAP) – Study finds. A biomarker of infection, procalcitonin appeared to be a good indicator for early discontinuance of antibiotic therapy as compared with other parameters. The study, which is the first researc...

MRI-guided Breast Biopsy Pronounced a Success

An MRI-guided breast biopsy successfully removed the breast lesion by taking x-ray of the lesion as well as slices of the lesion, according to radiologists. "Contrast-enhanced// MRI of the breast is becoming increasingly useful in patients with lesions that cannot be detected with other techniques," said Basak Erguvan-Dogan, MD, radiologist in Breast Imaging at the University of Texas M.D...

Specimen Radiography Confirms Success of MRI-Guided Breast Biopsy

Radiologists can help confirm that an MRI-guided breast biopsy has successfully removed the lesion by taking an x-ray of the lesion and slices of the lesion, a new study// shows. “Contrast-enhanced MRI of the breast is becoming increasingly useful in patients with lesions that cannot be detected with other techniques,” said Basak Erguvan-Dogan, MD, radiologist in Breast Imaging at the...

Promoting Circumcision to Prevent HIV is Misguided and Will Backfire: ICGI

African men are being led to believe that, if they get circumcised, they are protected from HIV. Proponents are calling it a ‘vaccine;’ but it is not a vaccine// and these men are being prompted to get circumcised under false pretenses. “The century-old circumcision ‘experiment’ in the United States is a failure, why should sub-Saharan Africa be any different?” asks Dan Bollinger, dir...

Cancer Patients in New South Wales to Receive Advanced Image Guided Radiation Therapy Treatments

North Coast Cancer Institute (NCCI) Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie began providing radiotherapy treatment services for the first time in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia . Cancer patients in New South Wales now have access to state-of-the-art treatments as the latest in image-guided radiation therapy ( IGRT) equipment from Elekta went clinical at both sites. The...