News tagged with cryotherapy
Freezing out breast cancer
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. ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Drug therapy shows significant benefit in treating a leading cause of childhood blindness
A readily available, inexpensive drug therapy showed a significant benefit in treating premature infants with the worst and historically most difficult-to-treat cases of retinopathy of prematurity.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Multidisciplinary approach is key to successful treatment of aggressive prostate cancer
A research team from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Kimmel Cancer Center (KCC) at Jefferson has concluded – for the first time – that a multidisciplinary clinic approach to aggressive prostate cancer ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Conventional, annual Pap smear cost-effective follow-up after cervical lesion treatment
A study of the options for reducing cancer incidence and mortality among women who have been treated for precancerous cervical lesions found that an annual conventional Pap smear is a cost effective strategy.
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Mayo Clinic finds early success with laser that destroys tumors with heat
Physicians at Mayo Clinic's Florida campus are among the first in the nation to use a technique known as MRI-guided laser ablation to heat up and destroy kidney and liver tumors. So far, five patients have been successfully ...
Oct 14, 2010 |
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HPV screen-and treat-intervention effective in cervical cancer prevention
Women in South Africa who underwent human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA-based testing or visual inspection of the cervix followed by treatment of test-positive women with cryotherapy had a statistically significant reduction in ...
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Liquid nitrogen most effective at removing warts
Cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen is the most effective method to remove common warts, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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Sep 13, 2010 |
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The Medical Minute: The worry with warts
Common warts are harmless skin lesions that are usually found on the hands or soles of the feet, the latter referred to as plantar warts. Warts have a fleshy and hard feel to them, can be associated with skin thickening, ...
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Keeping patients 'in good hands'
Hand therapy is one of the most vital treatment steps in recovery from hand injury surgery, according to a literature review published in the August 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS ...
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Strategy to help doctors determine when to treat retinopathy of prematurity
Scientists have shown that through eye examinations, doctors can identify infants who are most likely to benefit from early treatment for a potentially blinding eye condition called retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), resulting ...
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Apr 29, 2010 |
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Ethiopia to benefit from new cervical-cancer diagnostic tool
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gynecologist Paul Blumenthal, MD, MPH, is launching a program to train Ethiopian doctors and nurses in the use of a simple, low-tech approach for detecting and treating cervical cancer. ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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