After the therapy, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound was introduced into the environment of medicine, opened a new and effective option for fight against prostate cancer treatment of localized cancers, also for those patients who have failed other treatments located such as brachytherapy or cryotherapy and RT.
By Gilberto Chechile, A urologist who specializes has already tested [...]
Assess the current state of the use of High frequency Ultrasound (HIFU) in the treatment of prostatic cancer (Cap).
HIFU technology is currently being implemented and regularly in Europe in the treatment of PC. The main indications today are twofold: the application of HIFU therapy as a first step and as rescue therapy in post-radiotherapy recurrences. [...]
In a study published in the journal Science 24 October 2003, the New York Breast Cancer Study Group (New York Group for the study of breast cancer) not only confirms that every woman carries a mutation in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 is at a high risk of breast cancer but, against what had been [...]
A new study finds that women who carry BRCA gene mutations have the same mortality rates for malignancies those women who do not have this variant DNA.
These findings were published in the July 12 edition of New England Journal of Medicine, and contradict much of the current medical belief.
“Our main finding that female carriers have [...]
A current alternative for the management of patients with breast cancer has been the study of the BRCA gene (BRCA 1 and BRCA 2), as a hereditary mutation is present in approximately 5 to 8% of cases. The risk of breast cancer increases significantly in women with BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 mutant. These genetic [...]
New digital mammograms emit significantly lower doses of radiation the conventional study, especially in women with breast cancer, U.S. researchers said.
A study of 50,000 women, filed Thursday, mammography compared both systems and found that the dose of radiation was 22 percent lower with the digital system with the traditional method.
“Reducing the radiation dose is another [...]
Francis Levi, cancer (1), just to show that we can improve chemotherapy
Cross. You have just published an article (2) showing interest in patients with cancer receiving treatment, taking into account the biological clock of each individual. What is this therapy?
Francis Levi: We have shown that taking into account the biological clock of patients in the [...]
