The tool is designed for use by doctors and will still need to go through clinical trials to determine accuracy and effectiveness. This is a joint effort and will be tested at Harvard Medical School and the Cleveland Clinic. Radiation oncologists and urologists are the targeted physicians...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Cancer, Oncology, Prostate Cancer, PSA, Online Tools, Biopsy, Calculator
This procedure is not approved for us in the US. It is not inexpensive either at 25-30K per procedure, but good money for the physicians getting paid from 5-7k for their work. There are opinions on both sides of the fence and like anything else today, there has not been one cure all that works...
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on 08-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Cancer, FDA, clinical trials, Prostate Cancer, HIFU, Procedures
After all the recent news about the PSA test, here's a genomics answer. The MD Anderson Cancer Center, demonstrated a very high success rate for identifying the presence of Grade 3 or higher prostate cancer cells. The new prostate cancer test will be performed at Clarient's Clinical...
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on 08-07-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, Prostate Cancer, Pharmacogenomics, PSA, Cancer Test
An executive of the company had his own DNA tested and the results were shocking and unexpected to say the least. Recently deCode Genetics spoke about working more with physicians in the education process of personalized medicine . The test ran by the company he works for showed that he...
What a news flash here! I can see this one potentially becoming an event between couples, “honey I’m going to get cancer if I don’t get enough sex, so help me out ”…(grin). The study indicates that more than once a week is required to potentially remain outside the “risk” zone and that 3...
Watch for the events a local stores. The money raised is donated directly to charities , which provides grants to teaching hospitals and cancer centers doing leading edge research. A related story shows the recipients of this years awards. The affiliated hospitals included Massachusetts...
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on 06-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Health Care, Cancer, Research, Prostate Cancer, Charity, PCF, Safeway
Prostate cancer award recipients with high potential for solving problems with advanced prostate cancer. In addition, another outcome is the process of better treatments for patients. The awards range between $500,000 and 1 million for each program and hopefully one day will lead to a cure...