November 27th, 2006
Presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) are the findings that the use of elasticity imaging (a new ultrasound technique) enabled radiologists to accurately distinguish benign from malignant breast lesions.
Thus, correctly identifying both cancerous and harmless lesions in nearly all of the cases studied.
According to Richard G. Barr, M.D., […]
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November 26th, 2006
Sorry I forgot to tell you sooner but I’ve been on long weekend not because it was Thanksgiving weekend (am not US-based) but because I was in a blogger meet-up.
One common denominator of everyone in the photo below is B5media (we are all b5media bloggers).
From L-R: Rico (almost a b5media blogger, his b5media blog is […]
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November 22nd, 2006
Lung cancer is most treatable when detected early.
But how early is early?
The Lung Cancer Alliance, in its effort to educate people at risk for lung cancer about the importance of yearly low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) screening to promote early detection of the disease, has just launched screenforlungcancer.org
Screenforlungcancer.org is a website that provides information on the […]
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November 22nd, 2006
According to study that appeared in the November 25 issue of JAMA (a theme issue on men’s health), testosterone replacement therapy for men with low testosterone levels appears to have little effect on the prostate gland, contradicting some reports that this therapy may be harmful.
Serum levels of testosterone decline with age, and many aging men […]
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November 22nd, 2006
An Austrian study recently published in the November issue of Archives of Dermatology (one of the JAMA/Archives journals) suggests that marathon runners, having more atypical moles and other skin lesions are at a higher risk for skin cancer than a comparison group of age- and sex-matched controls.
Regular exercise is strongly linked to improved health. However, […]
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November 21st, 2006
The good news that Herceptin® (trastuzumab) (the world’s first targeted therapy) is now available for many women with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer, marks a significant advancement in breast cancer management.
According to Edith Perez, M.D., director of Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida:
“…signifies the importance for women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer to […]
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November 21st, 2006
An emerging emerging cross-disciplinary field that brings the thinking of ecologists and evolutionary biologists to shed light on cancer biology stands on the view that the dynamics of evolution are fully in play within the environment of a tumor.
Insights from the research conducted under the umbrella of this new discipline may offer profound implications for […]
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November 20th, 2006
In some types of cancer (testicular, bladder, lung, oesophageal, stomach, ovarian) the chemotherapy drug cisplatin is one of the ever present component.
So imagine if the cancer patient develops resistance to cisplatin? No treatment effect = not getting better.
Introgen Theapeutics, Inc. (a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted molecular therapies for […]
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November 17th, 2006
Every woman’s worst nightmare (aside from getting raped) is I guess being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Anyway, if you’ve heard of The Sister Study – the largest effort ever in order to find the causes of breast cancer – is hoping to enroll 50, 000 women.
Interested? You must satisfy the following criteria:
Women ages 35 to 74 […]
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November 16th, 2006
Fox Chase Cancer Center suggests that men with prostate cancer who choose radiation therapy should seek treatment centers that will offer high-dose radiation because their new study findings revealed that higher doses of 74 to 82 Gray (Gy) greatly reduce the risk that the cancer will spread later (even 8-10 years) after treatment.
Such findings were […]
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