Sentences with phrase «of radiation medicine»

«I don't think too many radiologists would recommend this as any sort of screening method,» says Janna Andrews, MD, a breast and gynecological cancer specialist and assistant clinical professor of radiation medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell in New York.

«After seven years, 74 percent of patients with the combined treatment were alive as compared to 66 percent in the ADT group alone,» noted study author Dr. Padraig Warde, deputy head of the radiation medicine program at the University of Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital.

Rangnekar, a professor in the department of radiation medicine, also holds the Alfred Cohen Endowed Chair in Oncology Research.

Not exact matches

Her discovery of radium lead to the development of using X-rays in medicine, and Curie was at the forefront for cancer research, directing the first studies that used radiation to treat tumors.

See W. R. Adey, «Neurophysiologic effects of radio frequency and microwave radiation,» Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 55 (1981), 1079 - 93.

Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer: Two new studies from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have upended the widely held view that it's best to delay radiation treatment as long as possible after the removal of the prostate in order to prevent unwanted side effects.

In a study featured in the December issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Australian researchers demonstrate that PET scans can identify which of these prostate cancer patients would benefit from salvage radiation treatment (SRT).

«iCCA is resistant to standard treatments like chemotherapy and radiation,» said Josep Maria Llovet, MD, Director of the Liver Cancer Program, Division of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and contributing author.

A single scan could diagnose the cause of foot pain better and with less radiation exposure to the patient than other methods, according to a study in the March 2015 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that cervical tumors that don't respond to radiation may be vulnerable to therapies that also attack the cancer's fuel supply.

D.s who go into family and emergency medicine, dermatology, and ophthalmology have the highest likelihood of ending up in private practice, whereas pathology, psychiatry, pediatrics, neurology, radiation oncology, and internal medicine have the lowest percentages of M.D. - Ph.

«As with other areas of personalized medicine, we would seek to create individual treatment and prevention plans for astronauts we believe would be more susceptible to cognitive deficits from radiation exposure,» she says.

«Our preclinical data suggest that combining low doses of these inhibitors will enhance the clinical effects of both drugs as a potential treatment for patients with AML,» says the senior author, Feyruz V. Rassool, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).

When astronauts are outside of Earth's magnetic field, spaceships provide only limited shielding from radiation exposure, explains study leader Robert D. Hienz, Ph.D., an associate professor of behavioral biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«This is not positive news for astronauts deployed on a two - to - three - year round trip to Mars,» said the professor of radiation oncology in UCI's School of Medicine.

With standard treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, the median survival time is only 14.6 months, and improvement will only come with the ability to kill tumor cells resistant to standard treatments, according to Alfredo Quiñones - Hinojosa, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the research team.

«This finding has immediate clinical applications, because either mutation - PPM1D or TP53 — cause the tumor cells to be resistant to radiation,» said senior author Hai Yan, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pathology at Duke University School of Medicine.

In a related editor's note, JAMA Internal Medicine Editor - in - Chief Rita F. Redberg, M.D., M.Sc., writes: «These findings suggest that the current practice of performing a stress test on low - risk patients in the ED is unnecessary and prolongs the length of stay in EDs as well as increases unnecessary medical imaging, with significant associated radiation risk for tests that include nuclear imaging.

However, some of these cancers become resistant to the effects of radiation over time, according to Venu Raman, Ph.D., an associate professor of radiology and radiological science and of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

The work «builds on a notable amount of literature showing that space radiation produces negative consequences on brain and behavior,» says Amelia Eisch, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medicine Dallas.

At the same time, here in Kiev physicist Elena Bakhanova at the Research Center for Radiation Medicine is adapting the principles used to three - dimensionally model radiation fields at Chernobyl to help investigate the health effects of medical radiation.

«Even before the patient completes all of the MRIs, CT scans and other imaging procedures following diagnosis, we can have a recommendation for which drug and dosage to prescribe,» said Kareem Azab, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center member who leads the research.

Scientists from ITMO University, Australian National University, Ioffe Physical - Technical Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht and Institute of Experimental Medicine RAMS demonstrated that the quality of MRI images could be substantially increased with the aid of metamaterials — artificial periodic structures that can interact with electromagnetic radiation in an extraordinary fashion.

«The moral of the story is you definitely don't want to be eating a bunch of cheeseburgers before you get chemotherapy or radiation,» said Christopher Lengner, an associate professor in Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine.

«The way I think of radiation is it's like building a brick wall,» said study co-lead author Dr. Nicholas G. Zaorsky, a radiation oncologist and assistant professor of radiation oncology at Penn State College of Medicine.

Study coauthor Ronald Levy, an oncologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says that physicians generally take their cues from the disease, waiting to see how fast it is moving — and treating it with toxic chemotherapy (sometimes with radiation) only if it becomes aggressive.

A recent Penn State College of Medicine physician's study review suggests that shorter courses of radiation are preferable to longer ones for older patients receiving treatment for slow - growing skin cancers.

It was led by Dr. Tim Whelan, professor of oncology with McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and a radiation oncologist at Hamilton Health Sciences Juravinski Cancer Centre.

Alizadeh and assistant professor of radiation oncology Maximilian Diehn, MD, PhD, share senior authorship of the study, which will be published Nov. 9 in Science Translational Medicine.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford have developed a way to scan young cancer patients» bodies for tumors without exposing them to radiation.

«This study, one of only a few large studies to have follow - up beyond five years, demonstrates that patients who have head and neck cancers and who are being treated with radiation therapy alone have improved local - regional control and no increase in late toxicity when radiation therapy is delivered twice a day in two smaller doses which we call hyperfractionation,» said Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FASTRO, lead author of the study and professor of radiation oncology, otolaryngology and hematology / medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

«We didn't see an improvement in overall survival or a statistically significant increase in progression - free survival, as defined in the context of this trial,» says the study's senior author, Minesh P. Mehta, M.B., Ch.B., Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a radiation oncologist at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

It could also help streamline radio - medicine, including radiation therapies and scanning diagnostics, boost the effectiveness of unmanned radiation monitoring vehicles in mapping and monitoring contaminated areas following disasters, and revolutionize radiometric imaging in space exploration.

In a new study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center concluded that overuse of cardiac stress testing with imaging has led to rising healthcare costs and unnecessary radiation exposure to patients.

Gregg Semenza is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine and a professor of pediatrics, oncology, radiation oncology and biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

This complexity contributes to its aggressive nature and resistance to conventional therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at Massey Cancer Center, professor and chair of the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine, and director of the VIMM.

When you consider that during this 10 - year period the number of physical science job openings is projected to be about half the number of physical science degrees granted by U.S. universities, occupations such as radiation therapy (median salary $ 74,980, according to BLS) and nuclear medicine technology (median salary $ 68,560) start to seem attractive.

Men who attended a structured yoga class twice a week during prostate cancer radiation treatment reported less fatigue and better sexual and urinary function than those who didn't, according to a clinical trial led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Pediatric oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians attend weekly multidisciplinary treatment planning meetings to discuss each patient's progress, drawing upon our collective expertise to provide a thorough, comprehensive approach to the care of children with cancer.

A pioneer in the diagnostic uses of radiation and the development and testing of radiotracers in the early days of nuclear medicine, Robert N. Beck, professor emeritus in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago, died at the University of Chicago Medical Center on August 6, 2008, from myelodysplasia, a form of leukemia.

The hospital provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients, with particular expertise in cardiology, diabetes, emergency medicine and trauma, neurosciences, oncology / radiation oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, and surgery.

A set of references was developed by the IOMP Science Committee covering the medical physics aspect of radiation therapy, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, and radiation safety.

Jim Hu, a urologic oncologist at NewYork - Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, said he was struck by the «significant differences in the likelihood of metastatic disease,» which he said could eventually translate into a survival benefit for the men who got surgery or radiation.

Pediatric oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians attend the Tumor Board, allowing for our collective expertise to provide a thorough, comprehensive approach to the care of children with cancer.

The new Radiation Safety + Review and Essentials program provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of radiation safety for nuclear medicine technologists preparing to take the NMTCB's Radiation Safety Certification Examination.

For graduate students enrolled in the medical physics program, clinical training in radiation therapy is conducted in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Leo Jenkins Cancer Center in the Brody School of Medicine in the course PHYS 7992.

At the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, our expert cancer team includes surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, physical therapists, speech / swallowing therapists and other experts who provide compassionate, patient - centered care.

At Silver Cross Dr. Anne McCall, medical director of radiation oncology at University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross, performed a unique breast cancer treatment, 3 - D Surface Imaging to Facilitate Deep - Inspiration Breath - Hold (DIBH) on Bakker.

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital provides a breadth of expertise and state - of - the - art radiation therapy techniques not typically available in a community hospital setting.

University of Chicago Medicine radiation oncologists and medical physicists are at the forefront of research into new and better ways to treat cancer.