We cannot escape the realities of biology. Just as children rescued from leukemia and lymphoma live to grow into adults who must confront the adverse effects of their curative treatment, people rescued from AIDS by HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) are showing a substantially increased risk of cancers other than the "AIDS-defining" malignancies designated by the Centers for Disease Control in the 1980s: Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL),...
Stand Up to Cancer 'Teams' Up with CBS' Survivor for Online Fundraising Program to 'Challenge The Odds'
Top fundraising teams will be highlighted during Sept. 10th nationally televised broadcast
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of a new long-term alliance, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is gearing up for its next Team Fundraising Challenge by joining forces with one of television's most popular shows, Survivor on CBS. For the first time ever, Survivor will...
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: August 12, 2010
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and
Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
Regardless of whether they were treated with standard or reduced-intensity chemotherapy, followed by radiation, patients with early-stage Hodgkin's lymphoma had similar rates of disease control, results of a large European study showed....
Oral cancer kills 21 people a day because it is usually diagnosed too late. Coast Dental is the first and only group to use multispectral imaging to identify and detect oral cancer at its earliest and most curable stages. Advanced screening exams with Identafi® 3000 ultra are now available at all 119 Coast Dental practices in Florida and Georgia.
Tampa, FL (Vocus) July 21, 2010
Coast Dental is now armed with the first and only multispectral imaging device for detecting...
The tunable fluorescent nanoparticles known as quantum dots make ideal tools for distinguishing and identifying rare cancer cells in tissue biopsies, Emory and Georgia Tech scientists have demonstrated.
An article to be featured on the cover of the July 15 issue of Analytical Chemistry describes how multicolor quantum dots linked to antibodies can distinguish the Reed-Sternberg cells that are characteristic of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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