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Interventional Radiology Y-90 Liver Cancer-busting Treatment: Safe, Fast, Extends Life
Interventional radiologists have been the leaders in the use of intra-arterial yttrium-90 radioembolization, since its introduction in 2000, to treat liver cancer. Now, new results from a large multi-institutional study show ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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BNCT, a new-generation radiation treatment, is effective in advanced head and neck cancer
Biologically targeted BNCT treatment is based on producing radiation inside a tumour using boron-10 and thermal neutrons. Boron-10 is introduced into cancer cells with the help of a special carrier substance (phenylalanine), ...
Mar 04, 2011 |
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More candor urged in care of dying cancer patients
(AP) -- Patients don't want to hear that they're dying and doctors don't want to tell them. But new guidance for the nation's cancer specialists says they should be upfront and do it far sooner.
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Death teaches US doctors lessons in art of living
Farrah Daly is a doctor who helps people die. The 33-year-old neurologist spends most of her days on the road. Her car's GPS is filled with the addresses of people who may have only days to live.
Dec 24, 2010 |
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Men dying of prostate cancer referred too late to hospice care, study finds
More than half of men dying of prostate cancer use hospice care — a significant increase over the last two decades — but most wait too long to enroll and can't take full advantage of the palliative care that could ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Pazopanib shows promise in Phase II trial for relapsed/refractory urothelial cancer
An ongoing Phase-II trial investigating a new, targeted therapy for metastatic urothelial cancer has generated promising early results, Italian researchers reported at the 35th Congress of the European Society for Medical ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Lung cancer patients receiving palliative care had improved quality of life, extended survival
Integrating palliative care early in the treatment of patients with advanced lung cancer not only improved their mood and quality of life, it also extended their lives. In the August 19 New England Journal of Medicine, Massac ...
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Americans are treated, and overtreated, to death
(AP) -- The doctors finally let Rosaria Vandenberg go home. For the first time in months, she was able to touch her 2-year-old daughter who had been afraid of the tubes and machines in the hospital. The little girl climbed ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Best care for the oldest lung cancer patients
Although more than two fifths of lung cancers are diagnosed in patients over 70, data from clinical trials on the safest and most effective treatments for this age group are scarce. Now Italian oncologists are conducting ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Killing cancer like a vampire slayer
Like vampires, cancer tumors require an ample supply of blood to stay alive. Without fresh blood for sustenance, cancer cells shrivel up like raisins and die.
Sep 17, 2009 |
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