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09/09/2008

Breast cancer: new method is more effective than mammography in women with dense breasts

“Molecular breast imaging” (MBI), a new scintigraphy method developed by US researchers, might improve early detection of breast cancer in women with dense breasts. The …

09/05/2008

Arsenic pollution causes health disaster

Over 70 million people in Southern Asia ingest involuntary arsenic through the groundwater. Arsenic poisoning is the reason for many instances of ill-health, including a rising …

09/05/2008

PET scans save colorectal cancer patients' lives

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers to cause death. A PET scan improves prognosis and changes management of recurrent colorectal cancer in more than half of …

09/01/2008

Robot-assisted prostatectomy in practical use

At the Medizin Innovativ 2008 congress (9-10 July, Nuremburg, Germany) Professor Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg MD (right), Director of the Urology Clinic and Polyclinic at the University …

08/28/2008

Cancer patients are not informed enough

Two thirds of cancer patients receive little or no information about the survival benefits of having palliative chemotherapy before making a decision about treatment, according to …

08/27/2008

Drug might protect against tumour recurrence

Tumour cells can migrate, sometimes also during a surgery to remove the tumour. US researchers recently found, that perioperative treatment with a drug known as colchicine might …

08/26/2008

Welcome to ESTRO 27

More than 4,500 cancer and radiotherapy specialists will gather in Göteborg, Sweden, this September for the 27th annual congress of ESTRO. ESTRO 27 is to be held between the …

08/26/2008

Good prospects for drug/radiation combo

It was a mistery: Why didn't drugs which boost the tumor-killing power of immune cells in lab do well in clincal trials? Now researchers from Rockefeller University describe a way …

08/22/2008

Breast cancer: Good news, bad news

Women who survive breast cancer for at least five years have a 89% chance that it will not recure. But those, who are still suffering and on endocrine treatment are likely to get …

08/15/2008

Young woman underrepresented in breast cancer studies

More than 250,000 women under the age of forty are living with the disease in the US and 11,000 will be diagnosed in the next year. Even so, young women are underrepresented in …

08/15/2008

Prostate scanning too often performed?

Experts on a US panel expressed their doubts on the beneficial quality of prostate cancer screenings for elderly men. Prostate cancer often grows very slowly and may not kill an …

08/08/2008

Eradiction of H. pylori protects against stomach cancer

Almost all stomach cancers not related to the heart develop from the stomach ulcer causing bug H. pylori. A Japanese study shows that treatment to eradicate the mikrobe reduces …

08/05/2008

Every or every second year doesn't make a difference

Researchers compared the Norwegian organised population based mammogram screening every second year and a physician- or self-referrals annual test in the US. Both are equally …

07/29/2008

OTC-gel for painless mammograms

It sounds impressively simple: An over-the-counter pain-relieving gel from the drugstore may reduce the uncomfortable and even dolorous feeling women experience during mammography …

07/26/2008

New proton therapy software tool

Proton therapy is very sophisticated way of destroying tumours. Now the Swedish Medical company RaySearch Laboratories has signed a consulting agreement with Uppsala University …

07/23/2008

MR images reveal tumour pH

Diseases are often associated with a low tissue pH. Researchers from the UK and Sweden have now developed a MR imaging method to measure the pH in human body using 'baking soda'. …

07/21/2008

Happiness causes cancer?

Reseacher from the Univerisity of Zürich discovered a new function of the “happiness hormone”, serotonin. It boosts the growing of colon cancer by enhancing the vascular …

07/17/2008

Finding prostate cancer metastates in lymph nodes early

With the help of an engineered common cold virus spreadings of prostate cancer in the pelvic lymph nodes can be visualised with a PET scanner. It is now possible to treat the …

07/16/2008

Herceptin destroys breast cancer stem cells

The HER2 gene causes a very aggressive kind of breast cancer. It influences the number of cancer stem cells and therefore as well the spreading of metastases. The University of …

07/16/2008

Chip predicts progression of cancer therapy

So called circulating tumor cells (CTC) seem to be an indicator of the progression and therapy outcome for cancer patients. US- and UK-researchers have shown concurrently that …

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