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...
Bedford Laboratories™ to Begin Shipping Dactinomycin for Injection USP 500 mcg (0.5 mg)
BEDFORD, Ohio, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Bedford Laboratories™, a division of Ben Venue Laboratories, Inc., is pleased to announce the addition of Dactinomycin for Injection USP 500 mcg (0.5 mg) to its comprehensive line of generic oncology products. Dactinomycin was approved earlier this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is AP rated and equivalent to Cosmegen® by Lundbeck...
CHICAGO—Testicular cancer survivors treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting. These patients also are at higher risk for hypertension and diabetes.
Investigators studied 990 men treated for unilateral testicular cancer from 1980 to 1994. In 2007 and 2008, the researchers conducted...
(Reuters) - British scientists have found three new genetic risk factors for testicular cancer, the most common form of the disease in young men, and say their findings should aid efforts for better treatments and earlier diagnosis.
A research team led by the Institute of Cancer Research scanned the gene maps of almost 6,000 men, some with and some without testicular cancer, and found genetic variants in three...
When 39-year-old Charlie Thomson discovered he had a suspicious lump in one testicle (or testis), he was less concerned that it might be cancer and more shocked by the news that the only way to find out was to have the entire testis removed.
"My urologist said, 'The only way to find out is to chop it off,'" Thomson says. "It freaked me out."
The fact that you should not biopsy the area due to...
