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A new imaging tool?
Mammography is the common way to detect breast cancer. But it’s not perfect: it struggles to image dense glandular tissue or early-stage tumours. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Read more …
Taking colorectal cancer control more seriously
With its request to all EU states concerning better colorectal cancer care, europacolon was prelude to the 10th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (WCGC) in Barcelona.
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Multiple-targeted therapies
The next big development in biological targeted therapies for advanced breast cancer will be drugs acting via multiple mechanisms, experts told delegates attending the 1st Asian Read more …
Interventional radiology
Along with paediatric radiology, interventional radiology will have a high profile at the 89th German Radiology Congress and 5th Joint Congress with the Austrian Radiology Read more …
Radiation treatment decisions in patients with prostate cancer and suspected lymph node metastasis based on USPIO-MRI
Prostate cancer is the most frequent cancer in men with about 49,000 newly diagnosed cancers in Germany and 6,000 in the Netherlands, annually. Read more …
Image-guided radiation therapy
Artiste is a linear accelerator and CT scanner combined. At the German Cancer Research Centre, a team of scientists led by Professors Wolfgang Schlegel and Uwe Oelfke of the Read more …
Fujifilm’s digital mammo goes mobile
Fujifilm Medical Systems USA, based in Stamford, Connecticut, reports that it’s CR for mammography (FCRm), a full-field digital mammography system, is now available for use in Read more …
New Optical Breast Imaging System
Advanced Research Technologies Inc. ("ART") announced the first sale of SoftScan® optical breast imaging system to the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Read more …
New system speeds-up UGI cancer diagnosis and treatment
The upper gastrointestinal (UGI) team at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has developed a rapid access service for upper gastrointestinal cancers. The new system means Read more …
Treatment of Bladder Cancer: Radiotherapy versus Surgery
According to a study recently published by Cancer Research UK scientists the survival rates of bladder cancer patients treated with radiotherapy are the same as those of patients Read more …
Cancer will kill 7.6 million people this year
A new American Cancer Society report estimates that there will be over 12 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths (about 20,000 cancer deaths a day) worldwide in Read more …
Neuroendocrine Cancer
The collaboration between two companies may pave the way for the development of new therapy options for neuroendocrine tumors: Covidien LTd, a global provider of healthcare Read more …
Finland’s colorectal cancer screening programme
Following the proposal of the European Union to all member states, Finland established a national screening programme for colorectal cancer in 2004. The programme is the first of Read more …
Screening
Switzerland - European experts presented and debates that controversial topic – breast cancer screening programmes – during a September symposium organised by Carestream Health. Read more …
Near-infrared contrast agent reveals microcalcifications related to breast and bone cancer
Near-infrared fluorescence mammography works with rays of near-infrared (NIR) light instead of X-rays. Although this is thought to be a very promising technique, there have been Read more …
Tissue-saving lung resection in malignant diseases
During operative therapy for bronchial carcinoma the surgeon is always faced with two seemingly diametrical demands: Maximum radicalness whilst preserving as much healthy lung Read more …
The European Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC)
The ERSPC is the world’s biggest study of screening of prostate cancer. It involves up to 260,000 men, 220,000 of them in the age group 55-75 years old. Professor Chris Bangma, Read more …
A website for breast cancer patients
For women (or friends and relatives of women with breast cancer), Read more …
Nanorods of gold blast holes in cancer tumours
USA – Miniscule gold ‘nanorods’ triggered by a laser beam can blast holes in tumour cell membranes, which then activates a complex biochemical mechanism that leads to the tumour Read more …
SPAIN: Reduced radiotherapy procedures
Andalusía – Surgery and chemotherapy have overtaken radiotherapy for cancer treatments Read more …
Determination of angiogenesis with MRI enables timely monitoring of therapy
The suppression of angiogenesis is an established procedure used to make a positive impact on tumour growth and the development of metastases – with varying success. Read more …