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Cancer patients monitor fatigue in real time
05-03-2007 · EurekAlert!Nurse researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are studying fatigue in cancer patients undergoing stem cell transplants using a method successfully used to monitor behaviors such as smoking cessation and alcohol use.
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- Cancer patients monitor fatigue in real-time
05-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
Nurse researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are studying fatigue in cancer patients undergoing stem cell transplants using a method successfully used to monitor behaviors such as smoking cessation and alcohol use.
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- Mayo Clinic real-time 3-D ultrasound speeds patient recovery
07-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Mayo Clinic physicians have adapted real-time 3-D ultrasound imaging devices -- including one designed to look at an infant's heart -- so that they can watch as they use a needle filled with anesthetic to numb individual nerves located inches under the skin. In this way, they can quickly block nerve function in selected areas of the body prior to surgery, an advance that may spare patients from use of general anesthesia, and sends them home faster and with less need for pain medication.
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- Jefferson radiation oncologists use real-time system to plant 'seeds' against cancer
09-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
Radiation oncologists and urologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have begun using a real-time system to implant radiation-emitting seeds in prostate cancer patients. While the system is only being used for imaging and planning so far, it ultimately will help in placing the seeds. The team hopes that the technology will make a good system even better, adding scientific precision to a treatment that currently relies mainly on physician experience and skill.
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- OHSU Cancer Institute shows findings of immunotherapy vaccine in prostate cancer patients
06-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
The study showed that sipuleucel-T did not significantly delay the time it took for a patient's PSA to reach a value of 3 ng/ml, the primary endpoint of the study, but it did show a prolongation in prostate-specific antigen doubling time (PSADT).
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- What's going on in the body? Advanced time-of-flight PET takes a superior 'look'
06-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Moving from computer simulation to patient images, researchers are now demonstrating the benefits that time-of-flight/PET imaging can provide for cancer patients. The result? Superior images and shorter patient scan times for starters, according to a study released at the 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals, June 2-6 in Washington, D.C.
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- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center -- individualizing treatment for multiple myeloma patients
12-10-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, in cooperation with industry partners, have, for the first time, identified tumor specific alterations in the cellular pathway by which the multiple myeloma drug bortezomib (Velcade) works, and they have identified nine new genetic mutations in cancer cells that should increase a patient's chance of responding to the agent.
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- Cancer patients may benefit from reporting symptoms online in real time
11-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center finds that even the sickest cancer patients are willing and able to "self-report" symptoms using the Internet, thus supplying key data in real time to their health-care providers.
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- Study calculates patient time costs associated with cancer care
01-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
In 2005, the overall cost of patients' time spent on cancer care was $2.3 billion in the first year after diagnosis, according to a new study in the Jan. 3 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The time costs for the 11 cancers studied and for different phases of cancer care varied widely, they write.
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- New biomarker test could predict outcome for bladder cancer patients
02-01-2007 · UT Southwestern Medical Center
A set of molecular biomarkers might better predict the recurrence of bladder cancer than conventional prognostic features such as the stage or grade of the malignancy at the time it is discovered, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
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- PSA doubling predicts prostate cancer recurrence
04-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
A detectable level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is the first indicator of recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy. In a new Mayo Clinic study, the concept of PSA doubling time is found to be a reliable tool to distinguish which patients have prolonged innocuous PSA levels after therapy from those who are at great risk for disease recurrence and death from prostate cancer. Doubling time is defined as the duration for PSA levels in the blood to increase by 100 percent.
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