Bone Pain Control Using MRI and Ultrasound
Saturday, 15 November 2008 13:49
Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS), a noninvasive thermal ablation technique that has been shown to be clinically effective in the treatment of uterine fibroids, is now being evaluated as a method for treating painful bone metastases.
Now physicians in North America are running a full scale clinical trial to see if the method really does work as well or better than traditional pain management methods.
Minority Patients Prefer Empowering Cancer Messages
Equal Cancer Care - African American
Thursday, 30 October 2008 00:00
Harping on negative consequences of a lack of cancer screening among minorities can actually make African-Americans less likely to go for screening, according to behavioral science research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Selenium Blood Levels and Prostate Cancer Risk, European Results
Last Updated (Thursday, 18 December 2008 12:13) Monday, 08 December 2008 07:10
Selenium is widely sold to men who takein supplement form witht he aim of preventing prostate cancer. Now evidence from a large study suggests that selenium does not offer the protection hoped for.
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Pre-Existing Diabetes Raises Cancer Patients' Risks
Prostate Cancer Plus - Diabetes
By Monday, 15 December 2008 18:56
People with diabetes at the time of a cancer diagnosis have an increased risk of death compared to patients without diabetes, according to a study led by Frederick Brancati, M.D., Johns Hopkins University and published in the December 17 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association today.
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Low-Income Men More Likely to be Diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancers
Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:00
Low-income men are more likely to present with advanced prostate cancers, most likely because they don’t receive screening services shown to reduce the diagnosis of later-stage cancers, a UCLA study found.The study focused on a group of disadvantaged men enrolled in the state’s IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling and Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) program, which provides high-quality care to poor, underinsured and uninsured men. Researchers found that of the 570 men studied, 19 percent had metastatic cancer at diagnosis, compared to 4 percent of men from the general population who were followed in other studies.
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