Cancer treatment improved

A new technique, Nano-Carbon Suspension Injection, will greatly improve the surgical treatment of gastric cancer, according to the latest research.

The result of the study was presented at a forum held in Chengdu, Sichuan province, by the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association of the Professional Committee of Gastric Cancer.

Cancer What is radioimmunotherapy?

Radioimmunotherapy is a revolutionary cancer treatment that is producing remarkable results in treating blood cancers, including leukemia and lymphoma. The technique combines two types of therapy: radiation therapy & immune therapy, using monoclonal antibodies
Monoclonal antibodies are man-made immune proteins used to target and attach to the surface of a cell. In radioimmunotherapy, radiation-emitting molecules, called radioisotopes, attach to the monoclonal antibodies. Those monoclonal antibodies carry the radiation-emitting molecule to the cancer cells and result in a more localized, target-specific irradiation. As the radioisotope attaches to the surface of the cancer cell, the cancer cells are killed

Riverview pioneers skin cancer treatment

A Wisconsin Rapids medical center took the national stage this week after becoming the first facility in the world to begin administering what some call a breakthrough skin cancer treatment.

University of Wisconsin Cancer Center Riverview's chief medical physicist, Yi Rong, presented the new process this week at the 51st annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Anaheim, Calif.

Ultrasound for prostate cancer

A pioneering treatment for the UK’s most common male cancer is more successful than surgery or radiotherapy,’ The Daily Telegraph reported. The newspaper said that new research shows that intensive ultrasound therapy is as effective as traditional treatments (surgery or radiotherapy) but that side effects are dramatically reduced..

read more at http://www.nursingtimes.net/whats-new-in-nursing/behind-the-headlines-archive/ultrasound-for-prostate-cancer/5003619.article

Genetic clue to brain cancer risk

Genetic warning signs of an increased risk of the commonest kind of brain cancer have been discovered.

UK and US scientists identified genetic indicators that someone is at greater risk of developing a glioma - which accounts for 50% of all brain tumours.

However, the teams from London, Texas and California write in Nature Genetics that environmental factors also affect if someone will develop the cancer.

A UK charity said the work opened up new avenues for research and treatment

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