Men who have just had their cancerous prostate gland removed have one pressing question for their doctors: Am I cured? But conventional tests haven’t been sensitive enough to provide a concrete answer. Current tests that measure the level of protein called PSA (prostate-specific antigen), which signals the presence of [...]
Prostate cancer patients on leuprolide who were offered to continue on FIRMAGON (degarelix for injection) after one year of treatment reduced prostate specific antigen (PSA) recurrence, according to results of a Phase III extension study(1) presented here at the American Urological Association 2010 meeting. PSA is commonly used [...]
Our purpose is to describe and demonstrate basic console dissection techniques in robotic hysterectomy, aortic and pelvic lymphadenectomy for endometrial carcinoma, and efficient methods to direct the assistant. The operating room and patient are prepared as previously detailed, researchers in the United States report.
Fresh data on ovarian cancer are presented in the report ‘Functional proteomic analysis of advanced serous ovarian cancer using reverse phase protein array: TGF-beta pathway signaling indicates response to primary chemotherapy.
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Exposure in the womb to chemicals like Bisphenol- A (BPA) and Diethylstilbestrol (DES) can increase an offspring’s risk of breast cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in a study published in current issue of Hormones and Cancer, a journal of The Endocrine Society.
A University of Rochester study helps to explain why men get liver cancer more often than women and opens the door for a new treatment pathway, by showing a direct link between the androgen receptor, which is more active in men, and the hepatitis B virus as it relates to [...]
Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. announced that the first patient has been screened in a randomized Phase 2 study of the Company’s novel, first-in- class antibody-based vaccine candidate from its Precision Targeted Immunotherapy (PTI) platform.
Carrie Greene’s cancer doctor called her on a Saturday morning a few months ago and said he wanted to change her chemotherapy treatment. What do you think about losing your hair, he asked. Greene, 41, who has recurring breast cancer, had already been through that. Twice. One of the [...]
Few people are taking advantage of pills that have been proven to prevent a substantial number of common cancers. If you didn’t realize such pills exist, you are not unusual. Which is part of the problem. This barely used arsenal in the war on cancer has grown to four drugs [...]
A team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers has discovered that common intestinal bacteria appear to promote tumor growths in genetically susceptible mice, but that tumorigenesis can be suppressed if the mice are exposed to an inhibiting protein enzyme.
Scientists discuss in ‘Intensity-modulated radiation therapy with noncoplanar beams for treatment of prostate cancer in patients with bilateral hip prosthesis-a case study’ new findings in prostate cancer. Megavoltage photon intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is typically used in the treatment of prostate cancer at our institution. Approximately 1% to [...]
University of Miami doctors have developed a new method of catching and killing tumor cells floating through the human bloodstream they say could be a potent new weapon against most kinds of cancer within a decade.
The International Journal of Epidemiology today published a combined data analysis from a multi national population-based case-control study of glioma and meningioma, the most common types of brain tumour. This is the first in a series of combined data analyses of head and neck tumours published as part [...]
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Midwestern Regional Medical Center (Midwestern) joins hospitals nationwide in recognizing the 3.1 million registered nurses who save lives and maintain the health of millions.