Search Tag: Cancer
2018 07 Nov
I am a cancer patient. I have experience first-hand how society’s view on patients deals a massive blow to your own sense of self-worth. Friends stop calling you, or they call you way too much. Healthcare professionals are too stressed out to talk to you. To top it all, you are limited to doing absolutely nothing for several months, or even years....Read more
2018 07 Nov
Hyperthermia can further enhance the therapeutic outcomes of radiation and chemotherapy, while keeping side effects at a minimum. A treatment method with many advantages. What is hyperthermia? Hyperthermia is the intentional overheating for therapeutic purposes, either throughout the body or in individual organs. The method of directly...Read more
2018 16 Oct
Recent advances and new challenges. It has been thought for years that cancer patients have not benefitted from intensive care unit (ICU) admission when they suffer from severe and potentially reversible acute illnesses. Fortunately, numerous studies have shown that this is not the case. Today, the number of cancer patients in ICUs around the...Read more
2018 21 Aug
In healthcare, the tendency is more on managing events after they happen rather than adopting a proactive approach to prevention. This is a major reason why the number of CVD patients continues to increase each year and why cardiovascular disease continues to be one of the leading causes of death and disability. Approximately 17.7 million people...Read more
2018 20 Jul
Several leading medical centres, together with start-up companies, associations and foundations, will attend HEALTHIO 2018 with the aim of sharing and publicizing the latest technological breakthroughs and applications for doctors and patients currently being applied in the fight against this disease. Fira de Barcelona's innovation in health...Read more
2018 21 Feb
We look back on a very successful and inspiring Annual congress in Amsterdam in February. A lot of you have participated, received a lot and given even more. That’s what life asks from us. We’ve collected the powerpoint presentations of the speakers and recorded all the talks. Together with the program and the minutes of the working sessions you find...Read more
2018 30 Jan
Cancer patients having a stroke are one-third less likely than stroke patients without cancer to get a gold-standard drug to help dissolve the clot, according to results of a study presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles. Strokes in cancer patients can be caused by traditional risk factors such...Read more
2017 27 Sep
New research finds that heart attack patients with a history of cancer received suboptimal treatment for myocardial infarction and were more likely to die in hospital, compared to those without cancer. The study, published in European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care, included 35,249 patients enrolled in the acute myocardial infarction in Switzerland...Read more
2017 14 Sep
Radiomics is an image analysis approach that has the potential to improve the management of cancer patients, but further research is required before it can be adopted into routine clinical practice, according to an article published in the journal eLife. Medical imaging techniques underpin much decision-making in cancer medicine and can be used to...Read more
2017 20 Jun
According to new research presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), prostate-specific molecular imaging could improve clinical management, especially in patients whose cancer returns. The study includes data from four Australian medical centres and several hundred patients who were examined...Read more
2017 16 Jun
New research presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) shows that simultaneous injections of flourine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) and 18F-sodium fluoride (18F-NaF) followed by quantitative scanning significantly improves image quality and detection of bone metastases at a lower dose....Read more
2017 07 May
Despite advances in healthcare, new research shows that men and women suffering from heart failure have a higher risk of death than people with most common types of cancer. As heart failure is a leading cause of death worldwide, the finding will be important in informing strategies to improve the outcomes of heart failure patients. The study led by...Read more
2017 04 Feb
Worldwide cases of cancer predicted to reach 21.7 million by 2030 Today, on World Cancer Day, millions are urged to get active to help combat the world’s most deadly disease. Under the banner ‘We can. I can.’ the day will encourage people to be more active - in every sense - in the fight against a disease that, in less than two decades, will...Read more
2016 22 Nov
Multidisciplinary teamwork is vital when planning for cancer patients in the ICU, according to a narrative review published in ESMO Open . The care of cancer patients requires close collaboration between the intensive care team and cancer specialists, with each specialty needing good awareness of cancer-specific problems and organ dysfunction. Peter...Read more
2016 23 Aug
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ) talks about a gene therapy approach called sonoporation which combines ultrasound energy and microbubbles to poke holes in cells. This new tool could help fight against cancer and cardiovascular disease. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC explain...Read more
2016 16 Aug
Despite cancer accounting for less than half the number of deaths than CVD in Europe as a whole, in nine of the 15 countries which were members of the European Union before 2004 (EU-15) and in another country that was among those that joined the EU afterwards (EU-28), more men now die from cancer than CVD. These countries are: Belgium, Denmark,...Read more
2016 10 Aug
A multidisciplinary project led by physicists from the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has been designed to develop a novel multifunctional platform that will integrate imaging and photo-induced cancer therapy in a single,...Read more
2017 27 Jan
ECCO is a not-for-profit federation that exists to uphold the right of all European cancer patients to the best possible treatment and care, promoting interaction between all organisations involved in cancer at European level. It does this by creating awareness of patients’ needs and wishes, encouraging progressive thinking in cancer policy, training...Read more
2016 01 Jul
Sonoporation with Chemotherapy Increases Porosity of Pancreatic Cells Introduction By enhancing the ability of cells to absorb chemotherapeutics, an ultrasound technique has nearly doubled the median patient survival time from diagnosis in a phase I clinical trial. During our research at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway,...Read more
2016 03 Jun
ASCO Promotes and Provides For Lifelong learning for oncology professionals, Cancer research, An improved environment for oncology practice, Access to quality cancer care, A global network of oncology expertise, and Educated and informed patients with cancer. ASCO is supported by its affiliate organization, the Conquer Cancer Foundation,...Read more