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Recognising Low Blood Sugars Could Help Prevent Brain Damage In Newborn Babies
Jun 13, 2013
Researchers from The University of Manchester studying a rare and potentially lethal childhood disease - which is the clinical opposite of diabetes - have made an important discovery. The team has found newborn babies with transient (also known as short-term) congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) are at risk of developing, long-term disability or brain damage due to low blood sugars... Read More
Studies Demonstrate The Strategy To Kill Melanoma Using Diabetes Drugs To Sensitize Resistant Cells
Jun 13, 2013
Advanced metastatic melanoma is a disease that has proven difficult to eradicate. Despite the success of melanoma-targeting drugs, tumors inevitably become drug resistant and return, more aggressive than before... Read More
Childhood Cancer Survivors At Increased Risk For Chronic Diseases
Jun 13, 2013
Childhood cancer survivors are at a significantly increased risk for undiagnosed, chronic diseases through adulthood, emphasizing the importance of life-long clinical health screenings for this high-risk population... Read More
Improved PET Medical Image Analysis To Optimize Radiotherapy Treatments
Jun 13, 2013
Elena Prieto-Azkarate, a graduate in Telecommunications Engineering at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and member of the Nuclear Medicine Service of the University College Hospital of Navarre, has implemented 12 algorithms to process medical images produced by means of PET (Positron Emission Tomography)... Read More
Improved Radionuclide Drug Treatment Planning With 3D Patient Models And Quantification Of Therapeutic Dose
Jun 13, 2013
External beam radiation treatment has long been manipulated into the unique shape of patients' tumors for personalized cancer care. Technology providing a means of patient-specific radionuclide drug therapies has not been standardized, as it has been limited to software that requires oncologists to manually define the areas of tumors... Read More
Patients With Tumors In Nerve- And Hormone-Sensitive Organs Live Years Longer Following Targeted Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy
Jun 13, 2013
Peptide-receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) has been a subject of growing research on neuroendocrine tumors, which take up residence in a variety of organs replete with nerve cells that respond to hormone signaling... Read More
Breast Cancer Survivors Motivated To Exercise By Telephone Counseling Combined With Physician Advice
Jun 13, 2013
Telephone-based counseling, when combined with physician advice, can help breast cancer survivors become more physically active, which can improve quality of life and lessen the side effects of cancer treatment, according to new research from The Miriam Hospital... Read More
Prostate Enzyme Enables Detection Of Metastases During Molecular Imaging
Jun 13, 2013
No matter where they have hidden, metastatic prostate cancer cells still express some of the same signaling as normal prostate cells; in some cases even more so, as with the PSMA enzyme... Read More
Hybrid Molecular Imaging System As Good As PET/CT Gold Standard For Restaging Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Jun 13, 2013
When prostate cancer makes a comeback, it becomes increasingly important to have exceptional imaging available to find all possible regions where cancer has spread to other parts of the body, or metastasized, in order to plan the best possible treatment... Read More
Side Effects Of Radiation To Treat Prostate Cancer Reduced By Biodegradable Implant
Jun 13, 2013
Several years ago, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center became the first center in the United States to test an Israeli-invented device designed to increase the space between the prostate and the rectum in prostate cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy... Read More
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