A new blood test using gold nanoparticles could soon
give oncologists an early and more accurate prognosis of how cancer treatment is progressing and help guide the ongoing therapy of patients.
A new blood test using gold nanoparticles could soon
give oncologists an early and more accurate prognosis of how cancer treatment is progressing and help guide the on - going therapy of patients.
«Therefore, the approach may
give oncologists knowledge on how to intervene and stop circulating cancer cell dissemination that might prevent the development of metastasis,» she says.
The NantOmics Cancer Genome Browser platform on the BlackBerry Passport enables deep, interactive reporting on genomics data for physicians and other treatment providers in clinical settings — for example,
giving oncologists a powerful view into the individual genetic alternations that make each patient's disease unique and highlighting relevant treatment options.
Not exact matches
«Watson is able to
give us faster, better matching of patients to potential clinical trials that our
oncologists wouldn't have otherwise be able to see — and I sit with our
oncologists who work on this kind of thing,» Christopher Ross, CIO at the Mayo Clinic, told MobiHealthNews in an interview.
«Watson is able to
give us faster, better matching of patients to potential clinical trials that our
oncologists wouldn't have otherwise been able to see,» Mayo Clinic CIO Christopher Ross told the trade publication MobiHealthNews.
An
oncologist by training, Desmond - Hellmann's promotion has
given her more say over Genentech's expanding pipeline.
Melissa asked her
oncologist what advice he'd
give to his own daughter about getting pregnant if she were in Melissa's situation.
Oncologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center trained the system to provide appropriate treatment recommendations by
giving it descriptions of patients and then telling Watson the correct treatment.
During my research in Rochester, I developed relationships with
oncologists in Africa, primarily by participating actively in the inaugural Euro - African Cancer Congress in March 2001, where I
gave lectures and participated in panel discussions.
Although Lundblad expects a lot from her group, she's evenhanded and willing to
give people a chance to prove themselves, according to pediatric
oncologist Alison Bertuch.
The findings inject hard facts into a debate that has long divided the medical community, with many radiation
oncologists preferring adjuvant therapy — radiation
given soon after prostate removal to kill off any remaining cancer cells — and many urologists preferring salvage therapy — radiation
given later, when prostate - specific antigen tests suggest it's needed.
«It's
given us insight into one of the very early events» that disrupt chromosomes, says Alison Bertuch, a pediatric
oncologist and molecular biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
«We would
give this biologic — which has minimal side effects — to any patient we identify through a blood test as producing HE4,» he says, adding that
oncologists have recognized that women with high levels of HE4 do not respond to treatment and their survival rates are lower.
And so you saw things like cases like a woman coming in with breast cancer and there was no
oncologist, there are no treatment infusion rooms where you can put central lines in and
give the chemotherapy, but they could get the chemotherapies on the gray market — that's where there are pirated versions of the key drugs that you need — in India.
«There's some phenomenon here that seems to be true, and I think we can not just
give this therapy randomly to the patient,» the author of the study, Dr. Shumei Kato, an
oncologist at UC San Diego, said in an interview with STAT.
A trailblazing
oncologist who took on childhood leukemia by introducing combination chemotherapy — in which anticancer drugs are
given simultaneously rather than singly — retired in September after 50 years at MD Anderson.
Our team of board - certified genetic counselors works with scientists and
oncologists across the institution to research cancer prevention and therapies and to
give patients access to promising treatments through clinical trials.
My
oncologist on the other hand was very kind about the fact that I wanted to try alternative therapies and she
gave me a window of time for trying alternatives.
I personally would expect doctors dealing with patients on death row (sorry I know this sounds extreme) but as someone who's been diagnosed with terminal cancer & only
given a short time to live (3 years), I would expect my doctor to be a bit more open to even discussing the possibilities of alternate therapies, but unfortunately my
Oncologist won't even consider the options.
I hope that Dr. Gregor can explain why some
oncologists / doctors have this theory and then
give us the information we need to explain otherwise.
Naturopathic
oncologist, cancer survivor, and author of «The Definitive Guide to Cancer,» Dr. Lise Alschuler, stops by Dr Lo Radio to
give perspective on natural cancer care and prevention.
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A board certified veterinary
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Your veterinary
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The treatment results are almost identical for the 3 drugs; because cisplatin has to be
given as an IV infusion, most
oncologists are no longer using it.
Greg's work on the east coast with: neurologists, internists and
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The
oncologist said that even with chemotherapy, Dora would likely only live six months, but her owner refused to
give up.
We met with the
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It's also why people rely on doctors, and expert specialists like
oncologists, to
give them medical advice.