External beam partial breast irradiation most cost-effective treatment
External beam partial breast irradiation (EB-PBI) is the most cost-effective method for treating postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer based on utilities, recurrence risks and costs when compared to whole breast radiotherapy (WBRT) and brachytherapy partial breast irradiation (brachy...Partial Breast Irradiation Now Provided by Rocky Mountain Oncology Center
CASPER, Wyo., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rocky Mountain Oncology Center (RMOC), is the first cancer center in Wyoming to offer and perform partial breast irradiation treatment. This ground-breaking treatment, offers many patients with early-stage breast cancer a new treatment option. Partia...Prophylactic cranial irradiation in small cell lung cancer significantly increases survival
Prophylactic cranial irradiation after chemotherapy significantly reduces the risk of brain metastasis and doubles one-year survival in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), according to the results of the multicenter phase III randomized EORTC trial 08993-22993, published in the New England Journal of M...Risk of Thyroid cancer is increased after Childhood Irradiation of Neck region
Professor Alice Sigurdson and Colleagues has reported the dosage difference which is required for treatment and the dosage which increases the risk of thyroid cancer. The study was conducted in 72 patients // who were treated for thyroid cancer during their childhood. The thyroid gland which is...Medulloblastoma Irradiation In Young Children Found To Impair IQ And Reading Skills
Radiation could be doing more harm than what you think. Low doses of radiation have been found to result in a reading impairment in children. It is not uncommon for children who suffer from medulloblastoma to undergo irradiation therapy // . The fact that this could result in affecting IQ and re...Partial-Breast Irradiation an Unproven Therapy
It's called partial-breast irradiation, and proponents see it as a promising alternative treatment for breast cancer patients who've just had a lumpectomy.// Thousands of women have already sought out the therapy, which requires just one week or less of radiation after breast cancer is diagno...Research Finds Lesser Rectal Cancer Risks Associated with Prostatic Irradiation
According to a new study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, no appreciable risks were found to be associated// with prostratic irradiation and the development of rectal cancer. Wayne S. Kendal, M.D., Ph.D., an Associate Professor in Radiation Oncology at the Ottawa Ho...St. Jude Study Finds Treatment With New Drug Might Make Tumor Cells More Sensitive to Therapy
...e useful in sensitizing tumor cells to therapeutic irradiation and potentially some chemotherapies MEMPHIS, Ten... be possible to make tumor cells more sensitive to irradiation and some types of chemotherapy by treating them wi...ch as neurodegeneration, cancer and sensitivity to irradiation that leads to irreparable, double-stranded DNA bre...Doctor Declares War on Hospital Infections, Patents MRSA-Killing Machine
...ide distribution rights for the patented TRU-D Rapid Room Sterilizer to Lumalier Corporation of Memphis, Tennessee, a leader in Ultraviolet Germicidal irradiation since 1963. Chuck Dunn, President of Lumalier, believes the timing for TRU-D is perfect. "While infection rates are rising at alarming rates, expanded...Two DOXIL(R) Studies to be Presented at American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting
...f total cumulative dose -- Cardiac toxicity may also occur at lower cumulative doses (400 mg/m2) in patients with prior mediastinal irradiation or who are receiving concurrent cyclophosphamide therapy -- Acute infusion-related reactions including, but not limited to, flushi...Twelve DOXIL(R) Clinical Studies to be Presented at American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting
...ations of total cumulative dose -- Cardiac toxicity may also occur at lower cumulative doses (400 mg/m2) in patients with prior mediastinal irradiation or who are receiving concurrent cyclophosphamide therapy -- Acute infusion-related reactions including, but not limited to, flushing, shor...UV Sterilizing PCR Workstations
Description:... PCR Workstation brings together UV irradiation and antimicrobial stainless steel to create a dual-attack environment against PCR contamination. PCR Workstation now available with a UV/Air Circulato...Neer II* Total Shoulder System
Description:...esponsive to conservative treatment due to osteoarthritis, avascular necrosis, post-traumatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, sickle cell infarction, irradiation necrosis. Ideal for total shoulder arthoplasty. Indicated for pain due to incongruity of both the glenoid and humeral head, with intact or repairable ...First genetically-engineered malaria vaccine to enter human trials
...vaccines are under development that use whole malaria parasites weakened by irradiation to protect against infection, their safety and effectiveness rely on a precise irradiation dose and trial results have been variable," Professor Cowman said. "We beli...Lithium may help radiation target cancer, spare healthy tissue
...st that lithium treatment could offer a way to protect healthy brain tissue from damage that may occur during cranial radiation treatments. Cranial irradiation is part of standard therapy for both primary and metastatic brain tumors. However, as with all treatment modalities, radiation often causes long-term ...UConn chemists find secret to increasing luminescence efficiency of carbon nanotubes
...otubes with helical assemblies and probing their luminescence properties. The more luminescent the nanotube, the brighter it appears under infrared irradiation or by electrical excitation (such as that provided by a light-emitting diode or LED). A number of important applications may be possible as a result o...Tips from the American Journal of Pathology
... Fat Tissue Is Sensitive to irradiation Researchers led by Dr. Batrice Cousin at Institut Louis Bugnard found that irradiation damages fat tissue. They report their findings in the January 2009 issue of...Argonne scientists discover possible mechanism for creating 'handedness' in biological molecules
...magnetic fields are prevalent throughout the universe. Based on the Argonne results, it is conceivable that chirality could have been introduced by irradiation of molecules as they traveled through the universe while adsorbed on a magnetized substrate in a dust cloud, meteor, comet or on a primitive planet. ...Molecular cubes in the sunlight
... Nafion membrane. Housed within the aqueous channels of this membrane, the catalytic species is stabilized and has good access to the water molecules. irradiation with visible light under an applied 1.2 volts leads to the effective electro-oxidation of water. This anodic half-cell could be easily paired with ...Pesticide build-up could lead to poor honey bee health
...s at the high end of that used to irradiate foods. irradiation broke down about 50 percent of the acaricides in t..., professor of entomology, Penn State. "Commercial irradiation firms usually decontaminate medical instruments or foods." The researchers tried irradiation at a commercial plant and though some modification...A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels
...xample, Australia's Nullarbor Plain would be a prime location for this process, as it has 10 000km3 of limestone and soaks up roughly 20MJ/m2 of solar irradiation every day.' The process of making lime generates CO2, but adding the lime to seawater absorbs almost twice as much CO2. The overall process is ther...IAEA helps recover stray radioactive sources in Nigeria
...two hospitals and a research centre over a weeklong period last July, and recovered sources that were formerly used for cancer treatment and an insect irradiation project. The seven high-activity sources were expired, but would have posed a public safety threat had anyone come into contact with them. A high degr...Total marrow irradiation using TomoTherapy System performed at City of Hope
Madison, Wis. - Madison-based TomoTherapy's HI-ART System was put to a new use June 8, with its first application of it for whole marrow irradiation at City of Hope Cancer Center near Los Angeles. "We wanted to explore the use of TomoTherapy to selectively deliver radiation therapy to the enti...First genetically engineered malaria vaccine to enter human trials
...vaccines are under development that use whole malaria parasites weakened by irradiation to protect against infection, their safety and effectiveness rely on a precise irradiation dose and trial results have been variable," Professor Cowman said. "We beli...Spectrum Announces Fetal Bovine Serum Product Line
...ium FBS, secondary treatments such as heat inactivation, dialysis, or gamma irradiation are available as standard catalog items. Spectrum also announced the avail...ium FBS, secondary treatments such as heat inactivation, dialysis, or gamma irradiation are available as standard catalog items. Spectrum also announced the avail...A breakthrough toward industrial production of fluorescent nanodiamonds
...due to amorphization and the loss of moving vacancies to the surface during irradiation and annealing. A top-down processing of diamond microcrystals, which are ...nd nanoparticles with high yield. The fabrication procedure starts with the irradiation of finely controlled micron-size diamonds and requires subsequent milling a...Spring 'blockbuster' movie now showing
...ic scale." Rubbing graphene off the end of a pencil tip and suspending the specimen in an observation grid, Zettl and his colleagues used prolonged irradiation from TEAM 0.5's electron beam (set at 80 kV) to introduce a hole into the graphene's pristine hexagonal carbon lattice. Focusing the beam to a spot on...Sangamo BioSciences Initiates Phase 1 Trial of CCR5-ZFP Therapeutic to Treat HIV/AIDS
...plantation (bone marrow taken from a different person) is not widely applicable as a therapeutic approach for HIV as it is a risky procedure requiring irradiation and ablation of the immune system and matched donors who also carry the CCR5-delta32 mutation are likely to be rare. Small molecule or antibody antago...Germicidal UVC Lights Improve Clinical Pregnancy Rates for IVF Lab, New Study Finds
...d abates the proliferation of airborne and surface embryotoxic organics. Of equal significance to the developing embryo is the suggested impact of UVC irradiation on the degradation of VOCs. Our work has demonstrated that VOC levels as low as 2.2 ppb can be embryotoxic to the embryo cultured in vitro." The aut...Sterilizing UV PCR Workstation from UVP
Description:... PCR Workstation brings together UV irradiation and antimicrobial stainless steel to create a dual-attack environment again...sity UV tubes for inactivation of DNA between experiments The ultraviolet irradiation can be used as a standard laboratory practice to reduce surface and airborn...