Prostate Cancer Detection From An Implantable, Flexible LED
9/21/2011
Can a flexible LED conformably placed on the human heart, situated on the corrugated surface of the human brain, or rolled upon the blood vessels, diagnose or even treat various diseases? These things might be a reality in the near future...
Prostate Cancer Breakthrough Pioneered By Queen's
9/21/2011
Scientists at Queen's have pioneered a new combination treatment for prostate cancer. The treatment, which has been successful in phase one of trials, will now be tested for efficacy in a second phase. The treatment, aimed at men with an advanced and aggressive form of prostate cancer which has spread to the bone, is the first of its kind to be developed...
Improving Cancer Communication To Patients
9/21/2011
Oncologists and their patients are increasingly challenged with making difficult decisions about screening, prevention and treatment. Unfortunately, most patients are neither armed with adequate knowledge nor the means of interpreting the information they do have in a qualitatively and quantitatively useful way...
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Sept. 19, 2011
9/20/2011
IMMUNOLOGY: New genetic cause of Boy in the bubble syndrome Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a rare but devastating genetic disorder sometimes known as 'Boy in the bubble syndrome', because the patient lacks one or more type of immune cell, making them very susceptible to infections...
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Sept. 19, 2011
9/20/2011
IMMUNOLOGY: New genetic cause of Boy in the bubble syndrome Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a rare but devastating genetic disorder sometimes known as 'Boy in the bubble syndrome', because the patient lacks one or more type of immune cell, making them very susceptible to infections...
Global Pain Crisis Documented By UBC Journalism Project
9/20/2011
In advance of a United Nations conference on the global challenges of treating cancer and other diseases, the UBC Graduate School of Journalism launched an ambitious multimedia site, The Pain Project*, which documents one of the greatest challenges to treating chronic illnesses: severely constrained access to morphine...
Common Genetic Variants Associated With Development Of High-Risk Neuroblastoma
9/20/2011
Patients with a high degree of African ancestry had a greater incidence of high-risk neuroblastoma and poorer outcomes, according to preliminary results presented here at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Sept. 18-21, 2011...
When To Administer Food And Drugs Together
9/20/2011
A regulatory bias against taking oral anti-cancer medications with food places many patients at increased risk for an overdose and forces them to "flush costly medicines down the toilet," argues Mark Ratain, MD, an authority on cancer-drug dosing. In a commentary published early online Sept. 19 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Ratain, the Leon O...
Scientist Suggests That Squalamine Be Explored As A Human Antiviral Agent
9/20/2011
A compound initially isolated from sharks shows potential as a unique broad-spectrum human antiviral agent, according to a study led by a Georgetown University Medical Center investigator and reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition online September 19...
First Fluorescence-Guided Ovarian Cancer Surgery
9/20/2011
The first fluorescence-guided surgery on an ovarian cancer patient was performed using a cancer cell "homing device" and imaging agent created by a Purdue University researcher. The surgery was one of 10 performed as part of the first phase of a clinical trial to evaluate a new technology to aid surgeons in the removal of malignant tissue from ovarian cancer patients...