News tagged with sentinel lymph node
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Microbubbles to light the way to sentinel lymph nodes of breast cancer patients
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are developing nonsurgical methods for identifying critical lymph nodes to help doctors determine courses of treatment for breast cancer patients. The ...
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Microbubble ultrasound and breast biopsies
Using "microbubbles" and ultrasound can mean more targeted breast biopsies for patients with early breast cancer, helping to determine treatment and possibly saving those patients from undergoing a second breast cancer surgery, ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Silicon nanocrystals map location of spreading tumors
Nano-sized fluorescent particles known as quantum dots have shown promise as powerful imaging agents capable of detecting a wide range of diseases, but these nanoparticles are usually made with toxic metals such as cadmium. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Largest-ever breast cancer surgery study published
A less invasive surgical procedure for detecting breast cancer spread has for the first time been proven to achieve the same cancer survival and recurrence control as traditional lymph node removal surgery in patients whose ...
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Routine breast cancer biopsy might predict lymph node cancer spread
Predicting breast cancer spread from a sentinel lymph node removed during surgery is a hit or miss affair, say researchers: there are still many false negatives, which means the node, when analyzed under a microscope, appears ...
Apr 18, 2010 |
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Gold Nanobeacons Detect Sentinel Lymph Nodes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtually every patient diagnosed with breast cancer or melanoma undergoes lymph node biopsy to determine if their cancer has begun spreading in the body. Taking this biopsy involves an invasive and uncomfortable ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Poorer breast cancer survival associated with micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes
Metastases that were 2 millimeters or less in diameter ("micrometastases") in axillary lymph nodes detected on examination of a single section of the lymph nodes were associated with poorer disease-free and overall survival ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Protein Markers Predict Risk of Melanoma Recurrence
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new prognostic tool that can determine the risk of recurrence in melanoma patients has been developed by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The technology, based on five proteins expressed in melanoma tissue, ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Nanoparticles Detect and Purge Metastases in Lymph Nodes
Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. In one step, a physician can find precancerous lesions in the colon and then cut them out, an on-the-spot intervention that prevents cancer from developing. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Golden Nanotubes Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Nodes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Predicting cancer prognosis
Researchers led by Dr. Soheil Dadras at the Stanford University Medical Center have developed a novel methodology to extract microRNAs from cancer tissues. The related report by Ma et al, "Profiling and discovery of novel ...
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Golden Nanotubes Used for Imaging Agent to Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Node
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent that is capable of molecular ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Surgeon training found effective in breast cancer sentinel lymph node trial
Training methods for surgeons who perform breast cancer sentinel lymph node resection were found to be effective in almost 97% of surgeons assessed, according to a new study published online August 24 in the Journal of th ...
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Novel technique changes lymph node biopsy, reduces radiaiton exposure
Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 13, 2009 |
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