Hospitals Look to Nuclear Tool to Fight Cancer
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A push by medical centers to turn nuclear particle accelerators into weapons against cancer reflects the best and worst of Americaâs health system, experts say.
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Implanting tiny radioactive "seeds" in the prostate, a treatment called brachytherapy, may be all that is needed to combat low-risk forms of prostate cancer, new research suggests.
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Researchers have developed a  checklist of measures they say could improve the quality of  care for people undergoing colon cancer surgery.
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FURTHER research to discover whether fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion has caused an increase in cancer in the north west has been demanded by the region&#39;s public health boss.
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A paint which illuminates cancer cells could help surgeons remove tumours accurately, scientists say.
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The U.S. National Cancer Institute  announced a new five-year plan on Monday to develop the use of  tiny tools to fight cancer, saying nanotechnology just might  provide the edge needed to defeat the disease.
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NEW YORK  - The number of breast cancer surgeries that a hospital performs seems to be associated with the likelihood of subsequently dying from breast cancer, Milwaukee-based researchers have found.
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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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NEW YORK  - Workers at one U.S. nuclear facility have suffered higher-than-average rates of certain cancers, a study shows -- suggesting that on-the-job exposures are to blame.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- There were important advances in the detection and treatment of cancer this year -- more people than ever are now surviving the disease -- but cuts in government cancer research dollars could slow progress in the fight.
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will announce the largest hospital fund-raising campaign in New England history today, hoping to raise $1 billion to turn the rapidly growing scientific understanding of cancer into better treatments for cancer patients.
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Flamanville on Normandy&#39;s Atlantic Coast is already home to one nuclear facility, and it&#39;s about to get another. Paris plans to start building the first of a new generation of nuclear plants in 2007.
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Some fear that doctors will steer patients to I.M.R.T. radiation therapy because it has higher profit potential.
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A third of cancer patients are using complementary and alternative therapies, research suggests.
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The Canadian government is rushing through legislation to reopen a nuclear reactor that produces most of the worldâs supply of a medically important diagnostic isotope.
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When a cancerous lump is discovered in a woman&#39;s breast, a lumpectomy, or removal of the lump, may be performed, followed by radiation.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.