Clinical News: Page 1701

American Cancer Society recommends CT lung screening
By Eric Barnes
Persuaded by an analysis of clinical studies demonstrating the benefits of lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society on Friday published guidelines recommending CT screening for long-term current and former smokers. The new rules, however, hew closely to previous guidance that has been criticized as being overly cautious.
January 10, 2013
Screening is best reserved for those expected to live longer
By Eric Barnes
Patients signing up for breast or colon cancer screening should have a minimum remaining life expectancy of at least 10 years to boost the chances of benefiting from the exams and overcoming their inherent risks, say researchers from the University of California, San Francisco in an article in BMJ.
January 9, 2013
Large study supports tomo; getting your 1st job; prostate CAD
By Brian Casey
January 9, 2013
Spin, bias high in published breast cancer studies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Spin and bias occur in a high proportion of published studies of the outcomes and adverse events in phase III trials of breast cancer treatments, according to new research published online in Annals of Oncology.
January 9, 2013
Nocimed awarded 2 patents
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nocimed has been issued a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to the company's technology using nuclear MR spectroscopy to evaluate pain and degenerative properties of tissue.
January 9, 2013
Frequent PET/CT may boost cancer risk in eye melanoma patients
By Wayne Forrest
California researchers are warning that eye melanoma patients who receive "aggressive" CT or PET/CT scans to monitor spread of the disease are at greater risk for developing a secondary malignant tumor. Their findings were published in the January issue of JAMA Ophthalmology.
January 9, 2013
Prostate cancer CAD requires zone-specific techniques
By Erik L. Ridley
Location is everything. If recent research results are any indication, that old real-estate maxim also appears true for applying computer-aided detection (CAD) technology to the detection of prostate cancer.
January 9, 2013
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SUSME, AIUM declare Year of Ultrasound
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education (SUSME) and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) have launched the 2013: Year of Ultrasound (2013YOU) campaign.
January 9, 2013
ACR donates film to Curie Museum in Paris
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) said it has donated to the Curie Museum in Paris a film of Marie Curie receiving the ACR Gold Medal in 1931. The film has been stored in the ACR archives for 81 years.
January 9, 2013
RT of the brain effective with smaller margins
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Patients who undergo radiation therapy (RT) for glioblastoma experience the same patterns of failure regardless of whether smaller or larger radiation fields are utilized, according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology.
January 9, 2013
Beta-blockers improve outcomes of NSCLC patients
By Cynthia E. Keen
In a large study from MD Anderson Cancer Center, patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survived longer if they took beta-blockers while receiving treatment that included radiotherapy. Results were published online January 8 in the Annals of Oncology.
January 8, 2013
Lantheus launches LEU TechneLite generator
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Diagnostic imaging agent developer Lantheus Medical Imaging has added a technetium-99m generator created using low-enriched uranium (LEU) technology to its nuclear imaging product portfolio.
January 8, 2013
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