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Adding Radiation Therapy To Chemotherapy Improves Survival In Patients With High-risk Breast Cancer

For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy, the addition of radiation therapy leads to better survival outcomes with few long-term toxic effects, according to a 20-year follow-up of a randomized trial, which appears in the January 19 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The British Columbia randomized radiation the...

New Treatment Rivals Chemotherapy For Lymphoma, Study Finds

A new form of treatment for lymphoma that takes a fraction of the ti...

Bevacizumab Combined With Chemotherapy Improves Progression-Free Survival for Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

Preliminary results from a large, randomized clinical trial for patients with previously untreated recurrent or metastatic breast cancer ?cancer that has spread from the breast to other parts of the body ?show that those patients who received bevacizumab (Avastin? in combination with standard chemotherapy had a longer time period before their cancer progressed than patients who received the same...

Report that delayed motherhood decreases life expectancy of mouse offspring

The June 2005 issue of Biology of Reproduction includes a special paper by a team of Spanish scientists indicating that delayed motherhood in mice results in shorter life expectancy and reduced body weight in their offspring. Negative effects of late maternal age in women, such as abnormal numbers of chromosomes in their children, are well known. However, other potential negative effects o...

Tendency to hair loss inherited from the mother

It begins with receding hairlines, the forehead becomes higher, the hair at the back of the man's head gets thinner and thinner. Every second man suffers from greater or lesser hair loss. There are hardly any successful counter-measures ?despite an enormous range of obscure lotions and tinctures. It has long been suspected that hereditary factors are important in causing hair loss. However...

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TomoTherapy reports 86% revenue jump, $131M net loss in Q1

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TomoTherapy opens technical training center

The company, which recently raised $213 million in an initial public offering of stock, said engineers, physicists, and radiation technicians are among the professionals who will receive on-sit...

TomoTherapy raises $223 million in IPO

TomoTherapy, a portfolio company of , offered common stock at $19 per share, and expects to receive $185 million in ne...

TomoTherapy revises IPO money target

, raising to $213 million the amount it could raise in its pending initial pubic offering of stock.<...

Hospital named for Madame Curie installs TomoTherapy system

The Madison-based medical imaging and device manufacturer has sold its Hi-Art system to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_...

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Acupuncture May Help Chemotherapy Side Effects

Oriental medical practice of Acupuncture along with commonly used medications may help ease the distressing and disabling side effects of chemotherapy for breast cancer patients, if researchers at National Institute of Health (NIH) are to be believed. According to Dr. Joannieshen MD, MPH, research associate at NIH, electro-acupuncture was more effective in controlling vomiting than...

Allergies are related to mothers' menses

Researchers say that the age at which your mother started menstruation could affect whether you suffer allergies.This is due to the influence of the mother's hormone levels on the development of the child. The study of Finnish families was based on measurements taken more than 30 years ago. More than 4,740 pregnant women had been asked about the age at which they began menstruating....

Mothers with periodontitis may deliver premature babies

The more the mouth affected with periodontal disease, the more likely a woman is to deliver a premature baby, according to an ongoing study of more than 1500 pregnant women.// Past studies have shown that women with periodontal disease may be up to seven times more likely to deliver a preterm low birth weight baby. The women in the study had no other major risk factors for preterm bir...

Chemotherapy Pill Has Fewer Side Effects Than IV

A chemotherapy pill is as effective for treating advanced colorectal cancer as intravenous treatment with a similar drug.Patients taking the pill capecitabine survived just as long as those on standard chemotherapy, but the pill caused fewer side effects.// Capecitabine is the oral form of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), the chemotherapy regimen most commonly used to treat advanced colorectal cancer.<br...

Boys reduced mother's life expectancy

According to researchers, scientists, having sons cut mothers' lives short, looking at families 250 years back. They felt that the pattern might still be seen in developing countries today. The team from Toronto looked at church records// for the Sanu people, who lived in Scandinavia between the 18th and 20th centuries. The Sanu depended on reindeer herding, fishing and hunting for th...

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AquaTherm Water-Induced Thermotherapy (WIT) System

Description:One of the most innovative and elegantly simple alternatives for BPH treatment, Water-Induced Thermotherapy (WIT) provides an ideal solution for physicians seeking to treat patients in the office. No other option provides a better combination of safety, simplicity, and proven outcomes. The AquaTherm System heats, circulates, and maintains precise control of water in a closed-loop catheter system....
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CoreTherm™ Microwave Thermotherapy System

Description:The CoreTherm Microwave Thermotherapy System is the Next Generation thermotherapy device for the treatment of symptomatic BPH. Other thermotherapy systems treat patients on standard treatment protocols, discounting the effect of each patient's individual intraprostatic blood flow characteristics will have on achieving the desired therapeutic temperatures and therefore, the treatment outcome.The C...
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TherMatrx® Dose Optimized Thermotherapy™

Description:TherMatrx® Dose Optimized Thermotherapy™ is an advanced transurethral microwave thermotherapy system designed for in-office treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). TherMatrx is the most widely used in-office BPH thermotherapy treatment in the United States. Unlike surgical solutions for BPH, TherMatrx does not require cutting, heavy sedation or hospitalization. A single TherMatr...
Company:AMS

Mother E-Base™ device

Description:E-Gel® 96 and E-Gel® 48 gels run in the specially designed E-Base™ electrophoresis bases, which combine the base and power supply in one device. The mother E-Base™ power supply contains an electrical plug that can be connected directly to an electrical outlet and is used to electrophorese one E-Gel® 96 or E-Gel® 48 gel...
Company:Invitrogen

Kisses mother/infant matching

Description:The optional Kisses component of the Hugs system is designed to assist nursing staff in matching infants with their mothers while in the hospital. With the Kisses component, you have an easy, effective and electronic enhancement to manual band-matching systems....
Company:VeriChip Corporation

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Pharmacyclics Announces Interim Results From Two Ongoing Phase 2 Trials Supporting Potential of Xcytrin Plus Chemotherapy to Treat Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

WAILEA, Hawaii and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 27, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announcedpreliminary results from two open-label, multi-center Phase 2clinical trials supporting the potential use of Xcytrin(R)(motexafin gadolinium) Injection, the company's lead productcandidate, in combination with Alimta(R) (pemetrexed) and incombination with Taxotere(R) (docetaxel...

July Issue of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Highlights Study of Factive Tablets for Five-Day Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 12, 2007 - Results from thesuccessful clinical trial of Oscient Pharmaceuticals' (Nasdaq:OSCI) FACTIVE(R) (gemifloxacin mesylate) tablets for the five-daytreatment of community-acquired pneumonia of mild to moderateseverity (CAP) have been published in the July issue of thepeer-reviewed Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, currentlyavailable in advance...

New Data Show Pfizer's Axitinib Prolonged Overall Survival in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer When Combined with Standard of Care Chemotherapy

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Pfizer announced today thataxitinib (AG-013736), an investigational oral, selective inhibitorof VEGFR 1, 2,3 (vascular endothelial growth factor receptors 1, 2,3) combined with gemcitabine showed a trend towards prolongedoverall survival (OS) in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer,compared with gemcitabine alone, according to preliminary data from...

Eloxatin (oxaliplatin injection)-Based Chemotherapy Sets New Treatment Benchmark in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

FOLFOX4 Chemotherapy Results in Improved Long-term [Five-years]Overall Survival for these Seriously Ill Patients CHICAGO, June 04, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FOLFOX4, anEloxatin(R)-based chemotherapy regimen, provided significantimprovements in long-term [five- years] overall survival (OS) andtime to disease progression (TTP) - a longer period of stabledisease - in patients with metas...

Hyperthermia Plus Chemotherapy Nearly Doubles Disease-Free Survival Compared to Chemotherapy Alone for Sarcoma Cancer Patients

SALT LAKE CITY, June 04, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BSDMedical Corp. announced today that the results of a 340 patientrandomized Phase III clinical trial testing the benefit of addinghyperthermia therapy to chemotherapy were presented at the annualAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference underway inChicago, Illinois. According to the results of this clinical study,whic...

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