Cancer Surgery

‘Most patients in Karachi are in their 20s and 30s’

‘Most patients in Karachi are in their 20s and 30s’ Sunday, November 22, 2009 By Saher Baloch Karachi Colorectal disease is the third most common form of cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the west;...

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When health screening has a downside - Los Angeles Times

CBS News When health screening has a downside Los Angeles Times Routine cancer testing saves lives, but it also leads to biopsies, surgeries, radiation, even deaths that otherwise would not have occurred. But experts'...

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Kidneys: Study findings on kidneys are outlined in reports from Kyoto Prefectural University,...

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Radiofrequency ablation for renal tumors: our experience.' In this recent report, researchers in Kyoto, Japan conducted a study "To report our results of percutaneous radiofrequency...

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Hepatic Resection: New hepatic resection research from University of Louisville, James Graham...

A new study, 'Microwave energy as a precoagulative device to assist in hepatic resection,' is now available. "Microwave energy is another energy source than can be used to precoagulate hepatic tissue during hepatic resection....

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In The Face of The Impossible

Recently, I was able to watch Episode 7 of Grey’s Anatomy Season 6 entitled, “Give Peace A Chance”. The episode was so powerful for me that I can’t help but write about it today. But first, for those who you don’t know – Grey’s...

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Intraoperative evaluation of breast tumor margins with optical coherence tomography.

Departments of Chemistry, College of Medicine, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA. As breast cancer screening rates increase, smaller and...

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Breast - Breast Preservation Foundation to Appear on Hit CBS Show ‘The Doctors’

The Breast Preservation Foundation will appear on the hit show ?The Doctors? today at 11:00 a.m Pacific Time on KCAL.Dr Joel Aronowitz, the Foundation?s president and founder, will be featured in a segment highlighting...

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Israeli invention allows for early detection of cancerous skin tumor

A new Israeli invention allows cancerous tumors on the skin to be detected and examined before they become visible to the naked eye, Ben-Gurion University announced. In initial testing carried out in the Soroka Medical Center...

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Patient tattoos thanks to medics

Zoe Stevens now has three tattoos on her lower back. A cancer patient from Cornwall has thanked her medical team by having their names tattooed on her lower back. Zoe Stevens, from Bodmin, was diagnosed with breast cancer in...

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Preoperative Sonographic Classification of Axillary Lymph Nodes in Patients With Breast Cancer:...

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate the role of axillary lymph node classification by sonography in breast cancer patients by node-to-node correlation with surgical histology and sentinel node...

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