When it comes to cancer today there are many different options to look at and discuss with your physician as to which option, depending on your diagnosis and condition would be the best plan, but as this article states, we really won’t know how effective some of the new technology really is until enough...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-28-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Cancer, Oncology, Prostate Cancer, PSA, Online Tools, Biopsy, Calculator, CyberKnife
Physicians can now implant seeds to any and every region of the gland and the device is finding cancer cells that previously were previously undetected, yet blood test were showing cancer cells were present. Video at the link below. If this can locate and find cancer cells that were previously...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-28-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Medical Devices, Prostate Cancer, Diagnosis, TargetScan Touch
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
According to this article, a patch would transmit the results direct to a cell phone, more telemedicine in the works? If the efforts are successful, this would allow more to be tested though the technology as the results could be relayed back to the physician or hospital. Biotech at work...
The treatments are delivered with just one 360 degree rotation, the machine moves around the patient. It is also helpful for those patients who have a hard time lying still for long time increments. The time spent by patients for treatment is dramatically decreased. This could in time...
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