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Oncology Drug Development Update-Ushering the Next Decade (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
New Medicine’s Oncology KnowledgeBASE residing at http://nmok.net became available on the Internet 10 years ago and, since then, the oncology field has evolved into one of the most challenging, complex and promising drug development sectors, both in terms of its potential contribution to medicine and to its market opportunities. Â The global market of... »
World’s first Cs-131 implant for colorectal cancer performed at Weill Cornell Medical Center (News-Medical-Net)
IsoRay, Inc., announced today that on October 10, 2009, Dr. Bhupesh Parashar, Dr. A Gabriella Wernicke and Dr. KS Clifford Chao from the Department of Radiation Oncology, and Dr. Jeffery Milsom from the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, at Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world’s first Cesium-131(Cs-131) implant for the treatment of colorectal cancer. (read... »
Heat Treatment With Chemotherapy Kills Large Tumors; Approved By FDA; Next Stage Clinical Trials Start This Year At … (Medical News Today)
A new treatment developed and tested by University of Oklahoma researchers not only killed large cancer tumors, but reduced the need for mastectomies by almost 90 percent. The latest results appear in an upcoming issue of the Annals of Surgical Oncology. Building on this success, researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center, plan to... »
Breakthrough breast cancer therapy reduces mastectomies, saves breast (PhysOrg)
A new treatment developed and tested by University of Oklahoma researchers not only killed large breast cancer tumors, but reduced the need for mastectomies by almost 90 percent. The latest results appear in an upcoming issue of the Annals of Surgical Oncology. (read here…) Related items Breakthrough breast cancer therapy reduces mastectomies, saves breast (Science Daily) Heat Treatment... »
Breast cancer treatment shows promise in trials (The Oklahoman)
Heating up breast tissue with microwave technology boosts the power of chemotherapy and shrinks cancerous tumors, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center researchers say.The finding means that more women with late-stage breast cancer may avoid losing breasts to mastectomy, said Dr. William Dooley, a researcher at the OU Cancer Institute and director of surgical... »
