Radiotherapy error could affect hundreds
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Hundreds of brain cancer patients in France and perhaps others in the United States may be contacted about their radiation treatments from malfunctioning machines, which were ordered shut down by the French government after a manufacturer's warning.
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Doctors are told too many patients have been let down by poor use of freeze therapy to remove diseased tissue.
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Five percent of breast cancer Web  sites have mistakes, with those involving alternative or  complementary medicine the most likely to be misleading, U.S.  researchers reported on Monday.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are now worried that tens of thousands of doses could
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A recent study says doctors are performing too many unwarranted CT scans, exposing patients to cancer-causing radiation
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A short-term dose of hormone therapy coupled with radiation significantly increases survival for many prostate cancer patients - compared to radiation alone - says a new study by Boston researchers.
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TUESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority of potentially harmful errors in chemotherapy for children with cancer do find their way to these young patients, a new study finds.  And they are more often caused by dispensing or administration mistakes than by prescribing mix-ups, the researchers found.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are now worried that tens of thousands of doses could go to
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As a treatment for breast  cancer, radiation, even modern regimens, appears to increase  the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a report in  the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for March 7.
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Patients should beware of so-called stem cell wonder cures as most have not been properly tested, experts say.
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TREATING prostate cancer with a combination of radiation and hormone therapy could cut the death rate from the disease by half.
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It turns out the common practice of using stents to open the heart may not be right for some patients.
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NEW YORK  - As a treatment for breast cancer, radiation, even modern regimens, appears to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for March 7.
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Scientists identify a gene fault linked the development of lung cancers.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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A hospital tries to contact patients after admitting errors were made by a pathologist in diagnosing cases of cancer.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.