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Overuse of colonoscopies
Oct 01, 2014
A retrospective study led by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), has found an overuse of colonoscopies for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance. Read More
Making diagnostic medical imaging safer
Oct 01, 2014
Medical imaging is at the forefront of diagnostics today, with imaging techniques like MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computerized tomography), scanning, and NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance)... Read More
Study defines an interaction between key proteins in cell division
Oct 01, 2014
The results may aid in improving oncological therapies designed to block these division processes, and therefore limit the proliferation and expansion of tumor cellsResearchers from Guillermo... Read More
Acetate supplement research could lead to new ways to treat anemia
Oct 01, 2014
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers seeking novel treatments for anemia found that giving acetate, the major component of household vinegar, to anemic mice stimulated the formation of new red... Read More
Lungs from donors who die from drowning, asphyxiation may be safe for transplant
Oct 01, 2014
Researchers claim transplanting lungs from donors who die from drowning or asphyxiation appears to be safe and may be a way of 'expanding the donor pool.' Read More
Progression-free survival for meta or recurrent cervical cancer improved by adding cediranib to chemo
Oct 01, 2014
For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and... Read More
Discovery of shining cells responsible for developing tumors
Oct 01, 2014
This finding will help to track the origin of chemical resistance and to launch personalized medicine by means of developing novel therapies against these cancer stem cellsTumours are mosaics of... Read More
Medicare law aimed a reducing chemotherapy cost turned out to have little impact
Oct 01, 2014
Legislation passed in 2003 to slow the spiraling costs of drugs paid for by the federal government to treat Medicare patients has had no meaningful impact on cancer chemotherapy drug costs, say a... Read More
Study examines medical professional liability claims related to esophageal cancer screening
Sep 30, 2014
An analysis of liability claims related to esophageal cancer screening finds that the risks of claims arising from acts of commission (complications from screening procedure) as well as acts of... Read More
Zytiga® (abiraterone acetate) survival data in chemotherapy-naïve men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) revealed
Sep 30, 2014
Data from the final analysis of the Phase 3 study COU-AA-302 have shown that Zytiga® (abiraterone acetate) plus low dose prednisolone significantly prolongs overall survival (OS) with a median... Read More
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