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Prostate Cancer > Adjuvant
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Adjuvant Defined
An additional treatment used to increase the effectiveness of the primary therapy; radiation therapy is often used as an adjuvant treatment after a radical prostatectomy if the surgical margins are involved by PC
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Change In HER2 Status After Treatment With Herceptin Discovered By M. D. Anderson Study
Published September 5, 2008, 7:15 am, Medical News Today
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that when treated with Herceptin prior to surgery, 50 percent of HER2 positive, breast cancer patients showed no signs of disease at the time of surgery.
International Team Reveals First Prognosticator Of Survival In Aggressive Cancer
Published September 5, 2008, 3:15 am, Medical News Today
The tumor suppressor gene pRb2/p130 may provide the first independent prognostic biomarker in cases of soft tissue sarcoma (STS), according to an international collaboration of researchers, including scientists at the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine at the College of Scie
Breast cancer care faulted in community hospitals
Published September 5, 2008, 12:28 am, The Sun
NEW YORK (Sept 5, 2008): Women who have advanced breast cancer treated in a local community hospital appear to have a lower long-term survival rate than their counterparts treated at academic medical centers, a new study indicates.
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
Published September 4, 2008, 3:04 pm, Moldova.org
EPA issues new gas-powered engine standardWASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued new standards for small gas-powered engines to reduce pollutants from machines including lawn mowers.The EPA said the new standards are designed to substantially reduce the amount of gas fumes, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and smog-forming pollutants emitted from a wide ...
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Published September 4, 2008, 2:47 pm, UPI
EPA issues new gas-powered engine standard … FDA approves hepatitis B viral DNA test … New air traffic control system developed … Aggressive cancer survival predictor ID'd ... Health/Science news from UPI.
First Prognosticator Of Survival In Aggressive Cancer Revealed
Published September 4, 2008, 9:20 am, Science Daily
The tumor suppressor gene pRb2/p130 may provide the first independent prognostic biomarker in cases of soft tissue sarcoma, according to new research.
International team reveals first prognosticator of survival in aggressive cancer
Published September 4, 2008, 8:10 am, PhysOrg
The tumor suppressor gene pRb2/p130 may provide the first independent prognostic biomarker in cases of soft tissue sarcoma (STS), according to an international collaboration of researchers, including scientists at the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine at the College of Science and Technology at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, the Department of Human Pathology and ...
Aggressive cancer survival predictor ID'd
Published September 4, 2008, 8:04 am, Moldova.org
An Italian-led international study has identified a tumor suppressor gene as the first independent prognostic biomarker in cases of soft tissue sarcoma.The scientists said they examined specimens taken from 41 patients with soft tissue cancer. In a subset of 31 cases of non-metastatic cancers, they found a direct relationship between gene pRb2/p130 expression and the clinical outcome of ...
Aggressive cancer survival predictor ID'd
Published September 4, 2008, 7:48 am, UPI
SIENA, Italy, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- An Italian-led international study has identified a tumor suppressor gene as the first independent prognostic biomarker in cases of soft tissue sarcoma.
Xoft to Present at the Citi Investment Research Radiation Oncology Conference
Published September 4, 2008, 5:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Xoft, Inc., developer of the Axxent® Electronic Brachytherapy System, a proprietary cancer treatment platform that utilizes X-rays to deliver non-radioactive, isotope- free radiation therapy directly to cancer sites, today announced that it will present at the 2008 Citi Investment Research Emerging Medical Technology Conference on Radiation Oncology.
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- Trastuzumab in the Adjuvant Treatment of Early-Stage Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials -- Dahabreh et al. 13 (6): 620 -- The Oncologist: just a recent summary indicating that adjuvant treatment with herceptin helps HER2+ patients, no evaluation of HER2-
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- EBBC: Aromatase Inhibitors Do Not Increase Cardiovascular Risks: In postmenopausal women with breast cancer, adjuvant treatment with aromatase inhibitors does not raise the risk for cardiovascular events. That is good news for patients.
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- Novel Molecules Developed at UB Can Boost Vaccine Potency - UB NewsCenter: UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, developed and patented the LT-IIa and LT-IIb enterotoxins and their respective mutant proteins as new mucosal adjuvants, or "boosters ," that can enhance the potency of existing and future vaccines.
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- ScienceDirect - Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hemat ology : Breast cancer in the elderly: the role of adjuvant radiation therapy
- ScienceDirect - The Lancet : Aromatase inhibitors for the endocrine adjuvant treatment of breast cancer
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