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Showing posts with label radiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radiation. Show all posts
Saturday, February 04, 2012

open access: Cancer risks associated with external radiation from diagnostic imaging procedures - Linet - 2012 - CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

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Blogger's Note: extensive (long) analysis; important to assess individual circumstances and as the research article indicates - risk v...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

abstract: Predictors of Long-Term Outcome from Intraperitoneal Radioimmunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer.

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"A statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival (p≤0.05) was noted for less bulky disease and younger age. Admi...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

abstract: Radiation-Induced Micro-RNA Expression Changes in Peripheral Blood Cells of Radiotherapy Patients

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Conclusions Exposure to ionizing radiation leads to the upregulation of the expression of a considerable proportion of the human miRNAom...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

medical news: Protection Against Cell Damage From Antioxidant Formula Prior To Radiation Exposure

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"A unique formulation of antioxidants taken orally before imaging with ionizing radiation minimizes cell damage, noted researchers at ...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

NIH summit to focus on management of radiation dose in computerized tomography, Tuesday, February 1, 2011 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Radiation Dose with CT Scan-Mayo Clinic - video

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Image-Processing Algorithm Reduces CT Radiation Dose By As Much As 95 Percent (perfusion CT)

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Monday, May 03, 2010

Computer-based system automatically tracks radiation dose exposure in patients receiving CT scan

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"Computer-based-system-automatically-tracks-radiation-dose-exposure-in-patients-receiving-CT-scan. "The fact that Valkyrie works w...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

open access - free: Imaging in Radiation Oncology: A Perspective -- The Oncologist

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Note : not specific to ovarian cancer; paper addresses the importance of imaging techniques (ie; MRI/PET) while planning radiation therapies...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Radiation recall dermatitis triggered by multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors: sunitinib and sorafenib

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Note: other treatments such as Gemzar/Gemcitabine have been noted in radiation recall

Accurate accumulation of dose for improved understanding of radiation effects in normal tissue

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Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 Mar Jaffray DA, Lindsay PE, Brock KK, Deasy JO, Tomé WA. Princess Margaret Hospital, Department of Rad...
Monday, February 01, 2010

Use of CT Scans Linked to Cancer Risk, Studies Say | netReturns | e-Newsletter

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"There is considerable disagreement in the scientific community about the validity of these models," notes Rosaleen Parsons, M.D...