Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine including Theranostics
Using sugar to detect malignant tumours
Ordinary sugar could become a contrast agent of the future for use in magnetic resonance…
Browsing: Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine
International Childhood Cancer Day
“Much remains to be done to fight childhood cancer” – IARC New estimates by the…
Women who survive breast or thyroid cancer are more likely to develop the other type later
The incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer, which includes papillary and follicular cancers, has increased nearly…
Prostate cancer patients confused in urology versus radiation oncology wars
SMH – Harriet Alexander. Men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer face a confusing array…
Proton beam therapy offers potential to treat childhood brain cancer with fewer severe side effects than conventional radiotherapy
Proton beam therapy—a more precise form of radiotherapy—to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears…
Study finds significant cognitive impairment in adult survivors of childhood brain tumours
Cancer survivors of childhood brain tumours show significant deficits in intelligence, educational achievement and employment,…
Glowing tumours could help surgeons cut out cancer
A breast cancer patient is wheeled into the operating room. She is connected to an…
Nuclear medicine tools could be beneficial against several human cancers
Nuclear medicine tools could be beneficial in the fight against several human cancers. Silvia Jurisson,…
Targeted hormone-radiation treatment slows growth of midgut neuroendocrine tumours
Early results from a phase III study of patients with previously treated, advanced midgut neuroendocrine…
Regimen for locally advanced rectal cancer as effective but less toxic than chemoradiation
Findings from a Polish phase III study point to an additional treatment option for patients…