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Hutchinson Center researcher secures $7.9 million NCI grant for esophageal cancer research

Thomas Vaughan, M.D., head of the Epidemiology Program in the Public Health Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has received a three-year, $7.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study genetic susceptibility for Barrett’s esophagus...

Study indicates potential for dramatic reduction in TomoTherapy Treatment Time

TomoTherapy Incorporated announced that a research study published in the November 11, 2009 International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics—commonly known as the Red Journal—indicated that TomoTherapySM treatment times could be reduced by up to 66 percent...

Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy

Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to a largest of its kind study in the November 15...

Hutchinson Center researcher secures $7.9 million NCI grant for esophageal cancer research

Thomas Vaughan, M.D., head of the Epidemiology Program in the Public Health Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has received a three-year, $7.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study genetic susceptibility for Barrett’s esophagus...

Landmark study shows substantial improvement in survival and renal recovery for acute kidney injury

A study appearing today in the New England Journal of Medicine adds to the growing body of evidence supporting continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) as the therapy of choice for treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI) patients in the...

Orthopaedic Tissue Regeneration Research Presented at Bone-Tec Congress by Dr. Myron Specto

SANUWAVE, Inc., an emerging medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of non-invasive, biological response activating devices in the regenerative medicine area, reported that scientific findings titled “Extracorporeal Shock Wave Stimulation of Osteoprogenitor Cells” were presented at...

Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging proves cost-effective for pre-surgical planning of patients with known

According to findings presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium in San Francisco, California, Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI), a molecular breast imaging technique with comparable sensitivity to breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for detecting breast...

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