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Radiotherapy advance points way to noninvasive brain cancer treatment

With an equal rate of incidence and mortality-the number of those who get it, and the number of those who die from it-Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a brain cancer death sentence. Of the approximately 12,000 people who are diagnosed with GBM annually in the U.S., half will die within a year, and the rest within 3 years. Currently, the only treatments that stretch survival limits are exce...
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Radiotherapy helps in colon cancer

According to new analysis, it is better to give radiation therapy before surgery rather than afterwards. Hitting colon cancer with radiation as well as surgery can reduce the risk of recurrence. Generally the timing of radiotherapy varies when it comes to practice. In Scandinavia and the Netherlands, the therapy is given before surgery while doctors in the UK and the US wait until afterwards.//<b...

Lung cancer gets better with new radiotherapy rule

Lung cancer can be effectively controlled with a higher dose of radiotherapy, with weekends off to recover. Standard treatment for lung cancer involves a daily dose of radiotherapy five days a week, for six weeks.// But better results have been found from a more intensive programme known as CHART which uses three doses a day for 12 days. Now researchers at the Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex, E...

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 Emission Tomo...

New sensors developed to predict effectiveness of radiotherapy treatment

The human population is exposed to both natural and artificial sources of radiation, which can cause cancer and other defects. Strangely, the same radiation that causes such effects is used for the treatment of cancer, //referred to as radiotherapy. It is however very difficult to assess if the precise dose of radiation is being delivered. New sensor systems have now been developed th...

Drug TEMODAL and Radiotherapy for brain cancer treatment

Canada Health Government has approved the drug TEMODAL in combination with Radiotherapy for treating patients with glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer. // The drug TEMODAL that contains Temozolomide is produced by Schering-Plough Corporation and is used in treating two forms of brain cancer Glioblastoma multiforme and anaplastic astrocytoma. Clinical study using the drug TEMODAL was te...

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YM BioSciences Announces Preclinical Data Confirming Nimotuzumab Binds to the EGF Receptor and Potentiates Radiotherapy

MISSISSAUGA, ON, July 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - YMBioSciences Inc. , an oncology company that identifies, developsand commercializes differentiated products for patients worldwide,today announced that a study presented by investigators from KinkiUniversity School of Medicine and Kyoto University at the 11thmeeting of The Japanese Association for Molecular Target Therapy ofCancer...

Aranesp Phase 3 Study in Patients with Active Cancer Not Receiving Concurrent Chemotherapy or Radiotherapy Presented at AACR Annual Meeting

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 16, 2007 - Amgen(Nasdaq:AMGN) today presented the results from a randomized,double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 study evaluating theefficacy and safety of Aranesp(R) (darbepoetin alfa) for thetreatment of anemia in patients with active cancer not receivingchemotherapy or radiotherapy ("the 103 study"). Aranesp is notapproved for use by the FD...
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