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Sonablate HIFU device is now available in Brazil to treat prostate cancer

USHIFU LLC, a world leader in minimally invasive high intensity focused ultrasound technologies and manufacturer of the Sonablate 500 medical device, announces that HIFU with the Sonablate is available to prostate cancer patients for the first time in Brazil at Hospital Nossa Senhora das Gracas in Curitiba, capital city of the state of Parana in southern Brazil.

17 Feb 2011

Oncolytics begins enrollment in 2-Arm carboplatin Phase II randomized study for pancreatic cancer

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. announced today that enrollment has begun in a 2-Arm randomized Phase II study of carboplatin, paclitaxel plus REOLYSIN versus carboplatin and paclitaxel alone in the first line treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic pancreatic cancer.

17 Feb 2011

First lung cancer treatment with BSD's MicroThermX ablation system delivered at Rhode Island Hospital

BSD Medical Corporation today announced the successful delivery of its first lung cancer patient treatment with the MicroThermX® Microwave Ablation System. The treatment was conducted by Damian E. Dupuy, M.D., at The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.

16 Feb 2011

CTI's fourth quarter net loss increases to $34.1 million

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. today reported recent accomplishments and financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010.

16 Feb 2011

RPCI offers first FDA-approved cancer treatment vaccine

The nation's first FDA-approved cancer treatment vaccine, Provenge, is being offered for the first time in Western New York at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

15 Feb 2011

Unmet need for medical help to address sexual issues in breast, gynecologic cancer survivors

Many women who survive breast and gynecologic cancers want medical help for their sexual issues, but most do not get it. A survey of hundreds of cancer survivors, published online in the journal Cancer, confirms that more than forty percent want medical attention for their sexual health needs.

15 Feb 2011

State Roundup: Calif. adult day care; S.C.'s budget cuts; Minn. 'boomer bust'

As Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed slashing government aid for poor people, he argues that California still provides more generous benefits than many other states. … State-by-state comparisons are complicated. ... While California pays health costs for a larger share of its population, it spends less per person. It reimburses health care providers less and covers a younger, healthier group of people (Yamamura, 2/14).

14 Feb 2011

Indiana University creates Institute for Personalized Medicine

Indiana University has announced a major commitment to research in one of health care's most promising fields with the creation of the Indiana Institute for Personalized Medicine.

10 Feb 2011

Study: 30% of older patients with vulvar cancer die from treatment complications, ICD

Research by the American Academy of Family Physicians demonstrates that vulvar cancer occurs most frequently in women age 65 to 75 years of age. Thirty percent of patients with vulvar cancer are age 70 or older, and the rate increases with age, reaching a peak of 20 per 100,000 women by 75 years of age.

10 Feb 2011

Breakthrough in cancer research can help reduce heart failure, increase survival rates

A breakthrough by scientists at Queen's University Belfast could help reduce heart failure in cancer patients around the world, and ultimately increase survival rates.

10 Feb 2011

NYBC ends emergency appeal for blood donations

Thanks to the support of blood donors – who answered the emergency call after winter snowstorms drove blood supplies to critical levels – New York Blood Center is ending its emergency appeal for blood donations and returning to its normal collection schedule. The supply of several blood types, including O-negative blood, has returned to recommended 3-5 day inventory levels.

10 Feb 2011

CeNeRx announces FDA approval of CXB909 IND for neuroprotection and neurodegenerative disorders

CeNeRx BioPharma, Inc., a clinical-stage company developing and commercializing innovative treatments for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), today announced FDA approval of its IND and reported the first clinical results in humans for CXB909, a novel agent that has demonstrated utility in preclinical models of neuroprotection and neurodegenerative disorders.

9 Feb 2011

Men with high levels of CCP genes more likely to have fatal form of prostate cancer

A genetic pattern could predict how aggressive prostate cancer is before treatment, and whether the disease will come back in men who have already been treated, according to research published1 in the Lancet Oncology.

9 Feb 2011

Tower announces formation of Cancer Support Network to provide high quality of care

As part of its commitment to providing the highest quality of care to the community, Tower Hematology Oncology Medical Group has announced the formation of Tower Oncology's Cancer Support Network.

8 Feb 2011

Genomic study identifies link between Native American ancestry, relapse in young leukemia patients

The first genome-wide study to demonstrate an inherited genetic basis for racial and ethnic disparities in cancer survival linked Native American ancestry with an increased risk of relapse in young leukemia patients. The work was done by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Children's Oncology Group.

6 Feb 2011

Patients receiving cancer treatment may experience skin, hair, nail problems

A cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment, which commonly includes chemotherapy or radiation, can be taxing physically and emotionally on any patient. If that is not enough, dermatologists are cautioning patients receiving cancer treatment and cancer survivors that they may experience a host of skin, hair or nail problems as a direct result of their therapy that may require additional treatment by a dermatologist.

5 Feb 2011

EpiCareSRT, Sensus Healthcare aim for mobile non-surgical skin cancer treatment service

EpiCareSRT announced today it has entered into a strategic partnership with Sensus Healthcare to take new aim at skin cancer by providing the first mobile service to bring low-dose superficial radiation therapy directly to the point-of-care in dermatology offices.

5 Feb 2011

Surrogate questions imaging can answer about cancer

A Professor who is investigating how modern body imaging techniques can be adapted to answer new questions - such as the anti-cancer properties of fish oils and green tea, or establishing cause of death in forensic investigation - is to give a free public lecture at the University of Leicester.

3 Feb 2011

PanCare Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivor Care and Follow-up Studies to kick off in Lund, Sweden

By learning more about these late effects of treatment, the health care services can, on the one hand, improve and reduce the intensity of the treatment, and, on the other hand, find appropriate ways to care for those suffering from side-effects of the treatment in adolescence and adulthood.

3 Feb 2011

Losartan improves effectiveness of nanotherapeutics against cancer

Low doses of an inexpensive, FDA-approved hypertension medication may improve the results of nanotherapeutic approaches to cancer treatment. In a report in the early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators describe experiments showing that the generic drug losartan, by modifying the network of collagen fibers that characterizes most solid tumors, improved the effectiveness of two nanotherapeutics against several types of cancer.

3 Feb 2011

Cancer Treatment News and Research

Sonablate HIFU device is now available in Brazil to treat prostate cancer

Oncolytics begins enrollment in 2-Arm carboplatin Phase II randomized study for pancreatic cancer

First lung cancer treatment with BSD's MicroThermX ablation system delivered at Rhode Island Hospital

CTI's fourth quarter net loss increases to $34.1 million

RPCI offers first FDA-approved cancer treatment vaccine

Unmet need for medical help to address sexual issues in breast, gynecologic cancer survivors

State Roundup: Calif. adult day care; S.C.'s budget cuts; Minn. 'boomer bust'

Indiana University creates Institute for Personalized Medicine

Study: 30% of older patients with vulvar cancer die from treatment complications, ICD

Breakthrough in cancer research can help reduce heart failure, increase survival rates

NYBC ends emergency appeal for blood donations

CeNeRx announces FDA approval of CXB909 IND for neuroprotection and neurodegenerative disorders

Men with high levels of CCP genes more likely to have fatal form of prostate cancer

Tower announces formation of Cancer Support Network to provide high quality of care

Genomic study identifies link between Native American ancestry, relapse in young leukemia patients

Patients receiving cancer treatment may experience skin, hair, nail problems

EpiCareSRT, Sensus Healthcare aim for mobile non-surgical skin cancer treatment service

Surrogate questions imaging can answer about cancer

PanCare Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivor Care and Follow-up Studies to kick off in Lund, Sweden

Losartan improves effectiveness of nanotherapeutics against cancer

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