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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 …
Embracing Excellence in Prostate and Kidney Cancer
The first European Multidisciplinary Meeting on Urological Cancers will take place in Barcelona, Spain, November 2nd to 4th, 2007. The meeting is co-organized by the European Read more …
Effectiveness of multidrug combinations for chemotherapy
Professor Loennidis, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece, and a team of researchers examined 242 randomized trials, performed during the last fourty years and Read more …
Increasing incidence of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus
A new study from researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center shows the relation between chronic acid reflux and malignant mutation Read more …
Study shows relation between LKB1 gene and lung cancer
Lung cancer has a high mortality: Despite prevention programms each year 1.3 million people die due to malignant mutation of lung cells. It’s the most common cause of Read more …
Tumor paint distinguish between cancer cells and normal tissue
Researchers at A Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center developed a tumor paint that will help surgeons see where a tumor begins Read more …
State governments unite to lower mortality
Australia - The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has reported a 26% decrease in the breast cancer mortality rate among women aged 50-69 years between 1990 and 2004. Read more …
Evaluating breast tomosynthesis for the Netherlands
Combining a scientific research laboratory with specialised clinic, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, in the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL), in Amsterdam, aims for a Read more …
A world-class radiotherapy service
United Kingdom – An independent report that suggests better ways to use the UK’s current radiotherapy resources, as well as predicting the needs of a radiotherapy service in the Read more …
Breakthrough in lymphatic cancer treatment
Celebrating his 71st birthday this year, Czech chemist Professor Antonin Holy will also be able to celebrate the launch of clinical testing of a drug to treat non-Hodgkins Read more …
Radiofrequency ablation in breast cancer
By Beate M Stoeckelhuber MD, Associate Professor and Radiology (Interim) Director at the Department of Radiology, Luebeck University, Germany, with Smaragda Kapsimalakou MD, also Read more …
World’s largest gathering of cancer specialists told: Mammography is still key to survival
Rapid diagnosis and treatment are the keys to breast cancer survival – and an elastogram mammography continues to play a central role in breast cancer detection according to Read more …
New technology to reduce biopsies
]Although about 75% of biopsies are negative, the side effects of that invasive procedure, plus the length of time to results, disturbs patients. Now, however, a new technology Read more …
Tissue elasticity reveals tumours
When equally compressed, the tissue and structure of tumours and inflammations are harder than normal tissue. Hitachi explains that, taking advantage of these alterations, the Read more …
Ireland Pulling into Europe’s fast lane for digital screening
In Ireland, breast cancer is particularly virulent: 18.5% of all cancer related deaths among the women are due to breast cancer.
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3D USCT nears reality
Back in the 70s, when scientists first speculated on the development of 3-D ultrasound computed tomography (3-D USCT) the available technology could not equal their dreams. Now, Read more …
Hospital group streamlines screening
Italy – One of the biggest RIS/PACS implementations in Europe is being co-ordinated the Area Vasta Centro (AVC) group, which runs 12 hospitals in central Tuscany. Among these, CPA Read more …
Why MRI should not be a health-political decision
During the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) congress, the paper of Professor Christiane K Kuhl* and her colleagues has been selected as ‘Best of ASCO’ , for Read more …
Buzz words: digital mammography
Full field digital mammography (FFDM) and computed radiography (CR) based mammography systems may bring hospitals and breast imaging services closer to gaining digital Read more …
CTLM for cancer detection in dense breasts
Paolo Belli MD, Carmen Malaspina MD and Professor Lorenzo Bonomo, of the Department of Radiology, UCSC, Policlinico A. Gemelli, Rome, discuss results from using computed Read more …