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November 28th, 2007

Cryoablation for Pain Management?

While cryoablation is working wonders in kidney cancer patients will unoperable tumors, the procedure has been found to offer durable pain relief of cancer that has spread to the bone – according to Mayo Clinic.
According to Matthew Callstrom, M.D., Ph.D., a radiologist at Mayo Clinic who presented his latest findings on cryoablation for pain management […]

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January 27th, 2007

Increased Chemotherapy Dose, Not Beneficial to Osteosarcoma Patients

Compared to standard doses of chemotherapy, a dose-intensive regimen of cisplatin and doxorubicin offered no clinical benefit in patients with the bone cancer osteosarcoma.
Such were the findings of a randomized clinical trial whose data has been reported in the January 17 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
In other cancers such as non-Hodgkin […]

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