1. VBT, External Radiotherapy for Endometrial Cancer
(Modalities/Radiology )

... this week's edition of The Lancet. Radiotherapy (VBT or EBRT) is given after surgery to patients at high-intermediate risk as it lowers the likelihood of local disease recurrence from about 20% to 5%. ...

2. Early-stage Breast Cancer: Preoperative MRI unnecessary
(Communities/MRI)

... in the February 13, 2010 issue of the Lancet. Preoperative MRI is increasingly being used in women with early-stage breast cancer who are undergoing breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy) in order to ...

3. MRI and Breast Cancer Re-operation Rate
(Communities/MRI)

... Feb. 12 issue of The Lancet, randomly assigned 1,623 women,18 years or older, who had primary breast cancer to have either an MRI or no further scans. This took place after the women underwent triple assessment ...

4. Breast Cancer: Support for Low-Dose Radiation
(Modalities/Radiology )

... said online in The Lancet Oncology. The researchers used data from quality-of-life substudies from the two randomized Standardisation of Breast Radiotherapy (START) trials, conducted concurrently in the ...

5. PET Improves Diagnostic Accuracy in Parkinson's
(Communities/PET)

... by movement disorder neurologists, and prospective multicenter studies are needed to confirm the accuracy of this metabolic pattern-based approach, he cautioned. Source: Lancet Neurology Discuss more ...

6. On-Demand Chest X-ray Efficient Than Routine Strategy
(Modalities/Radiology )

According to a study published in the November issue of the Lancet, the adoption of an on-demand strategy in preference to a routine strategy to decrease use of chest radiographs in mechanically ventilated ...

7. New Optical Techniques are More Efficient and Cost Effective
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

The Lancet Oncology reports optical diagnosis is a reliable method of correctly diagnosing small colorectal polyps during routine colonoscopy. The Lancet Oncology reports that optical diagnosis is a reliable ...

8. Children Dosen't Need CT Scans After Head Trauma
(Communities/CT)

... edition of The Lancet. The collaborative study includes data collected at 25 hospitals from children who were evaluated for the possibility of serious brain injury following trauma to the head. Researchers ...

9. MRI can Predict Outcome of Infants Poor of Oxygen at Birth
(Communities/MRI)

The study published The Lancet Neurology in shows that magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) can predict with 80% accuracy the likelihood of death or disability by age 18 months. Children whose brains ...

10. Radiation and Concurrent Chemotherapy Giving Beneficial Results
(Modalities/Radiology )

The Lancet Oncology Research shows that In patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer who hadn't undergone surgery, concurrent radiotherapy and non-platinum chemotherapy was associated with fewer ...

11. Stereotactic Radiosurgery Preferred Method of Treating Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... in the October 5, 2009 online edition of The Lancet Oncology. Led by Eric L. Chang, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at M. D. Anderson, the study supports the use of SRS ...

12. IntraOp Medical Corporation Breast Cancer Radiation Technique Delivers Proven Long-Term Benefits and Saves Lives
(Company News/IntraOp Medical Corporation)

... mastectomy, which also would be avoided. A prestigious Lancet review of studies on breast cancer found a 25% increase in 15 year survival for patients with no recurrences at five years, suggesting that ...

13. Ovarian Cancer Screening Not Catching Early Disease
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... with a British study published March 10 online in The Lancet Oncology that found combo screening for ovarian cancer was extremely successful in finding early stage cancers. But that still doesn’t mean ...

14. Access to Neurostat 3D-SSP for brain PET or SPECT analysis
(Organizations/SNM)

... The Lancet Neurology, leaders in the field of AD pro-posed that the research diagnostic cri-teria—and this will influence clinical diagnostic criteria—should be modi-fied, removing the need for dementia ...

15. Temodar plus Radiation Improves Survival for Brain Cancer
(Modalities/Radiology )

... compared with 2% of patients treated with radiation alone. The results of this study were published in the Lancet Oncology. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the most common and fatal types of ...

16. Whole-Body CT Scan Increases Chance of Survival in Severely Injured Patients
(Communities/CT)

... and appearing in an upcoming issue of The Lancet. Whilst the number of trauma centres using whole-body CT for early assessment of trauma is increasing, there is no evidence to date that the procedure ...

17. Preoperative Radiation Therapy Reduces Rectal Cancer Recurrence
(Modalities/Radiology )

A short course of preoperative radiotherapy is an effective treatment for patients with operable rectal cancer, 2 studies results reported on March 7th issue of Lancet. Results from 1 study showed ...

18. Bypass May be Less Dangerous for Older Diabetics than Angioplasty: Study Shows
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... was not much difference, they reported in the Lancet medical journal. But among patients aged 65 to 75 who had diabetes, the bypass surgery was markedly less deadly. Overall, 15 to 16 percent of the patients ...

19. Ovations for the Cure Applauds Medical Research Test Findings on ovarian cancer
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... 62 women in the United States are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 43 lose their fight. But interim results published in The Lancet Oncology (UK) earlier this week, provide new hope that widespread screening ...

20. Blood, Ultrasound Tests Catch Ovarian Cancer: Study
(Communities/Ultrasound)

... is no current good test for ovarian cancer, having a reliable screening test could save many lives, Ian Jacobs and Usha Menon of University College London reported in the journal Lancet Oncology. "The ...