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| SBRT eliminates tumors with promising survival for early-stage inoperable lung cancer patients Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(American College of Radiology / American Roentgen Ray Society) Highly-focused stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) can eliminate the targeted tumor while avoiding treatment-related illness and may ultimately improve survival for patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer, according to early findings of a Radiation Therapy Oncology Group study published in the March 17 cancer-themed issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. |
| 5th Annual Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research awarded Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(National Foundation for Cancer Research) The National Foundation for Cancer Research announced today that renowned scientist Peter K. Vogt, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif., is the recipient of the 5th Annual Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research. |
| 2 at 1 stroke -- how cells protect themselves from cancer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Cells have two different protection programs to safeguard them from getting out of control under stress and from dividing without stopping and developing cancer. Now for the first time, using an animal model for lymphoma, cancer researchers in Berlin, Germany, have shown that these two protection programs work together through an interaction with normal immune cells to prevent tumors. Their findings may be of fundamental importance in the fight against cancer. |
| Study evaluates costs and benefits of new chemotherapy drugs Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Emory University) New chemotherapy agents appear associated with improvements in survival time for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer but at substantial cost.David H. Howard, Ph.D., and colleagues at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, used a cancer registry database to measure trends in life expectancy and lifetime medical costs in 4,665 patients age 66 and older diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer between 1995 and 2005. |
| Precision radiation therapy may improve survival rates of some lung cancer patients Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A radiation therapy that uses multiple radiation beams to target tumors precisely has been shown to eliminate the primary tumor and ultimately may improve survival rates for lung-cancer patients unable to undergo surgery. |
| Increased radiation dose does not increase long-term side effects for prostate cancer patients Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Massachusetts General Hospital) Boosting the radiation dose given to prostate cancer patients to a level that cut tumor recurrence in half did not increase the severity of side effects reported by patients up to a decade later. The study also found that patients characterized the impact of continuing side effects on their quality of life as considerably less bothersome than would be expected, based on earlier studies. |
| Case managers help low-income women receive more timely breast cancer diagnosis Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(JAMA and Archives Journals) Case management appears to be associated with more appropriate follow-up and shorter time to diagnostic resolution among low-income women who receive an abnormal result on a mammogram, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. |
| Study evaluates costs and benefits associated with new colon cancer therapies Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(JAMA and Archives Journals) New chemotherapy agents appear associated with improvements in survival time for patients with metastastic colorectal cancer, but at substantial cost, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. |
| Media reports may paint overly optimistic view of cancer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(JAMA and Archives Journals) Newspaper and magazine reports about cancer appear more likely to discuss aggressive treatment and survival than death, treatment failure or adverse events, and almost none mention end-of-life palliative or hospice care, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. |
| Progress has been made in war on cancer, but still many challenges Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(JAMA and Archives Journals) Although there have been achievements in the battle against cancer, including a decrease in the rate of death and new diagnoses, cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in the US, with a need for continued improvement in the areas of prevention, detection and treatment, according to a commentary in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer. |
| Although most cancer centers have palliative care programs, scope of services varies widely Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(JAMA and Archives Journals) Palliative care services are available at most U.S. cancer centers, although the scope of services offered and the degree of integration between palliative care and oncology care varies widely among centers, according to a study in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer. |
| Potent radiation treatment provides tumor control for patients with inoperable lung cancer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(JAMA and Archives Journals) Early findings suggest a radiation therapy that involves numerous highly-focused and potent radiation beams provides targeted tumor control in nearly all patients, reduces treatment-related illness, and may ultimately improve survival for patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer, according to a study in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer. |
| Older patients with colon cancer less likely to receive chemotherapy after surgery Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(JAMA and Archives Journals) Even though older patients with colon cancer are less likely to receive chemotherapy following surgery because of concerns of adverse events, new research indicates that when they do receive this treatment, it is less toxic and of shorter duration than therapy younger patients receive, and older patients experience fewer adverse events, according to a study in the March 17 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer. |
| Colon cancer treatment frequently is less aggressive than recommended, RAND-UCLA study finds Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(RAND Corporation) New results from a major initiative on the quality of cancer care in the United States show that patients with a common type of colon cancer -- especially older patients -- often are not treated as aggressively with chemotherapy as research shows is necessary. The study is among the first to track how findings from research trials are applied in diverse practices in the community. |
| Society of Interventional Radiology announces gold medalists Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Three Society of Interventional Radiology members, John D. Fulco, M.D., FSIR; Irvin F. Hawkins Jr., M.D., FSIR; and David C. Levin, M.D., FSIR, were awarded the society's Gold Medal, an honor that is given to those who have helped ensure the future of interventional radiology by advancing the quality of medicine and patient care. |
| Going for gold with a novel interventional radiology treatment for pancreatic cancer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Pancreatic cancer -- known as the most fatal cancer with no known effective treatment-- requires a radical new therapy. A promising approach may come in the form of tiny gold nanoparticles -- loaded with a therapeutic agent to kill cancer -- in a novel procedure called "nanoembolization," said researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla. |
| Living longer: Colon cancer patients gain time with radiofrequency ablation treatment Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Approximately half of Americans living with colorectal cancer will develop liver metastases at some point during the course of their disease. Radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive treatment that applies heat directly in the tumor causing cancer cell death with minimal associated injury to the surrounding healthy liver, contributes to prolongation of their life by nearly three years, note researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla. |
| The hot -- and cold -- interventional radiology treatments for recurrent prostate cancer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Society of Interventional Radiology) The first known patient cases using magnetic resonance-guided heat (laser interstitial thermal therapy) or cold (cryoablation) to treat prostate cancer recurrence after surgical removal of the prostate gland were presented by physicians at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa. |
| Shutting out soft tissue cancers in the cold Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Cryotherapy, an interventional radiology treatment to freeze cancer tumors, may become the treatment of the future for cancer that has metastasized in soft tissues (such as ovarian cancer) and in bone tumors. Such patients are often not candidates for surgery and would benefit from minimally invasive treatment, say researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla. |
| Freezing out breast cancer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Interventional radiologists have opened the door to an encouraging potential future treatment for the nearly 200,000 women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year: image-guided, multiprobe cryotherapy. In the first reported study, researchers were able to successfully freeze breast cancer in patients who refused surgery; the women did not have to undergo surgery after treatment to ensure that tumors had been killed, note researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla. |
| Novel interventional radiology treatment with microspheres shows promise for liver cancer patients Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Society of Interventional Radiology) An interventional radiology treatment -- the use of intra-arterial yttrium-90 microspheres for liver cancer (also known as hepatocellular carcinoma) -- shows promise in prolonging life for many patients with this devastating condition, according to researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla. |
| Interventional radiology innovators: Advancing minimally invasive modern medicine Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EDT |
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Over the past 40 years, more than 2,400 patents and patent applications -- pioneering modern medicine with the devices and drugs that advance minimally invasive treatments -- have been filed by members of the Society of Interventional Radiology. |
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