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New Technology Reduces, Controls CT Radiation Exposure In Children
Patients at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are being exposed to significantly less radiation during CT scans because of new technology that allows doctors to more tightly control radiation doses. The first-of-its-kind imaging software reduced overall radiation exposure from CT scans by 37 percent, according to two new studies published online today in the journal Radiology... (Medical News Today)

Reducing Health Risks To Humans On Future Missions Into Deep Space
Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel... (Medical News Today)

Joint Damage Successfully Identified In Rheumatoid Arthritis
A new study presented at EULAR 2013, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, demonstrates the efficacy of the ARASHI method at evaluating radiographic (X-ray) joint damage in RA. The study validated the use of ARASHI to assess joint damage in RA, and clarified the pattern of progression of damage during two-year TNF-blocking therapies... (Medical News Today)

Patients With Tumors In Nerve- And Hormone-Sensitive Organs Live Years Longer Following Targeted Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy
Peptide-receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) has been a subject of growing research on neuroendocrine tumors, which take up residence in a variety of organs replete with nerve cells that respond to hormone signaling... (Medical News Today)

Improved Radionuclide Drug Treatment Planning With 3D Patient Models And Quantification Of Therapeutic Dose
External beam radiation treatment has long been manipulated into the unique shape of patients' tumors for personalized cancer care. Technology providing a means of patient-specific radionuclide drug therapies has not been standardized, as it has been limited to software that requires oncologists to manually define the areas of tumors... (Medical News Today)

Side Effects Of Radiation To Treat Prostate Cancer Reduced By Biodegradable Implant
Several years ago, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center became the first center in the United States to test an Israeli-invented device designed to increase the space between the prostate and the rectum in prostate cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy... (Medical News Today)

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Survival Predicted By Dose Analysis
Outcomes can be bleak for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a cancer that develops in the white blood cells of the immune system... (Medical News Today)

SPECT/MR Molecular Imaging System Makes Its Debut
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2013 Annual Meeting marks the unveiling of the successful application of a new preclinical hybrid molecular imaging system - single photon emission tomography and magnetic resonance (SPECT/MR) - which has exceptional molecular imaging capabilities in terms of potential preclinical and clinical applications, technological a... (Medical News Today)

Advanced Lymphoma Patients Receiving Radioimmunotherapy Likely To Live Longer
A new patient protocol for aggressive and recurrent lymphoma that combines intensive chemotherapy and radioimmunotherapy (RIT) may become the most powerful cancer-killing therapy available, with the hope that patients' lymphoma can be eradicated as they prepare for bone marrow transplant, said researchers at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging... (Medical News Today)

Prostate Enzyme Enables Detection Of Metastases During Molecular Imaging
No matter where they have hidden, metastatic prostate cancer cells still express some of the same signaling as normal prostate cells; in some cases even more so, as with the PSMA enzyme... (Medical News Today)

Breast Cancer Screening Does Not Reduce Deaths Says Study Of 40 Years Of Mammograms
A new UK study suggests screening for breast cancer does not reduce deaths from the disease. The study, which looked at nearly 40 years of breast screening, adds to the controversy surrounding whether it is screening or improvement in treatment that accounts for the fall in rates of death from breast cancer... (Medical News Today)

CT Scans Associated With Increased Cancer Risk
An analysis of seven healthcare systems in the U.S. has found that pediatric radiation exposure from CT scans can potentially double the risk of cancer caused by radiation. The study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, revealed that the number of CT scans among young children has more than doubled from 1996 to 2005. Scans rose from about 330,000 in 1995 to 1... (Medical News Today)

First For The NHS As Innovative New X-Ray Scanner Is Unveiled At RNOH, UK
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) is the first in the NHS to benefit from a state of the art imaging scanner that will deliver more accurate 3D images and result in safer surgery for patients. The new scanner will give RNOH surgeons the ability to carry out complex spinal operations more efficiently and safely... (Medical News Today)

Seeking A Less Toxic Radiation Treatment For HPV-Positive Oropharynx Cancer
Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center and other institutions have completed a phase II clinical trial that may help identify those patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer who do not require the full radiation dose given in a standard regimen of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)... (Medical News Today)

Researchers Calculate The Radiation Exposure Associated With A Trip To Mars
On November 26, 2011, the Mars Science Laboratory began a 253-day, 560-million-kilometer journey to deliver the Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. En route, the Southwest Research Institute-led Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) made detailed measurements of the energetic particle radiation environment inside the spacecraft, providing important insights for future human missions to Mars... (Medical News Today)

Best Treatment For High-Risk Low-Grade Glioma Is Still Radiotherapy
In a large, international, randomized trial, initial radiotherapy was compared to temozolomide chemotherapy. A statistically significant difference between the two treatment strategies was not observed for progression-free survival, although radiotherapy was numerically favored... (Medical News Today)

For Patients With Stage III Lung Cancer, Higher-Dose RT Results In Inferior Survival
In a randomized phase III clinical trial conducted by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), high-dose (HD), compared with standard-dose (SD), radiotherapy (RT) with concurrent chemotherapy (CT) did not improve overall survival of patients with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC)... (Medical News Today)

Randomized Clinical Trials In Radiation Oncology Clinical Practice Of Great Value
Cancer patients, physicians and insurers want to be sure that whatever therapy is recommended and provided to patients is based on evidence, preferably results from randomized clinical trials. But are there enough clinical trials data to provide this level of confidence? A University of North Carolina School of Medicine study says not necessarily... (Medical News Today)

Study Finds That Radiation Oncology Research Is Critically Underfunded By The National Institutes Of Health (NIH)
Radiation oncology research received 197 grants, totaling only 1.6 percent ($85.5 million) of the $5... (Medical News Today)

Possible Alternative To CT Lung Cancer Screening - Digital Chest Tomosynthesis
Most lung cancers are detected when patients become symptomatic and have late-stage disease. However, recently, computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer has been reported to reduce lung cancer mortality... (Medical News Today)

At Initial Screening Exam, Twice As Many Lung Cancers Detected By CT Compared To X-ray
National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) investigators also conclude that the 20 percent reduction in lung cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) versus chest X-ray (CXR) screening previously reported in the NLST primary paper is achievable at experienced screening centers in the United States... (Medical News Today)

Radioactive Nanoparticles Developed That Target Cancer Cells
Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can develop. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body... (Medical News Today)

Minimizing Hair Loss Due To Cancer Radiation Therapy
Discovering that mouse hair has a circadian clock - a 24-hour cycle of growth followed by restorative repair - researchers suspect that hair loss in humans from toxic cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy might be minimized if these treatments are given late in the day... (Medical News Today)

News From Annals Of Internal Medicine, May 21, 2013
1. Older, Sicker Men Unlikely to Benefit from Aggressive Therapy for Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer Older men with localized prostate cancer and other serious health conditions may not benefit from aggressive treatment for their cancer... (Medical News Today)

X-Ray Diffraction Shows How Frog Embryos Could Help Thwart Disease
An international team of scientists using a new X-ray method recorded the internal structure and cell movement inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ever before. This result showcases a new method to advance biological research and the search for new treatments for genetic diseases... (Medical News Today)

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