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MUNICH, Germany, PARSIPPANY, N.J. and ANDOVER, Mass., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence® company, and Visage Imaging® Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. (ASX: PME) announced today that they have entered into a partnership to jointly develop and market advanced oncology solutions for the clinical and preclinical imaging domain. The partnership enables Definiens to utilize the Visage® CS enterprise visualization...

CHICAGO, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After mastectomy, breast cancer patients who receive radiation treatment to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone do not live longer than those who do not receive radiation to this hard-to-treat area, according to a randomized 10-year study presented at the plenary session, November 2, 2009, at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Breast cancer that is located in an internal, central location in...

After mastectomy, breast cancer patients who receive radiation treatment to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone do not live longer than those who do not receive radiation to this hard-to-treat area, according to a randomized 10-year study presented at the plenary session, November 2, 2009, at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).Breast cancer that is located in an internal, central location in the breast area, and larger tumors that have...

Medical scientists in Germany say they've determined that ultrasound signals can be used to determine if cancer has started to spread in melanoma patients. Dr. Christiane Voit of the Medical University of Berlin said the discovery enables physicians to decide how much surgery, if any, is required and to predict a patient's probable survival. We have identified two ultrasound patterns of lymph node metastasis in melanoma patients, which can identify correctly any amount of tumor cells in the...

Patients could be spared unnecessary surgeryResearchers have shown for the first time that patterns of ultrasound signals can be used to identify whether or not cancer has started to spread in melanoma patients, and to what extent. The discovery enables doctors to decide on how much surgery, if any, is required and to predict the patient's probable survival.Dr Christiane Voit told Europe's largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 "“ ESMO 34 [1], in Berlin today (Wednesday 23 September): "We...

Many studies favor an extended lymphadenectomy at the time of a potentially curative gastrectomy for node-positive gastric cancer, and the risk of long-term death tends to decrease when the number of resected lymph nodes increases to about 25. However, few studies have assessed the relative contribution of the total number of resected lymph nodes to the outcome of patients with node-negative gastric cancer. Further studies are needed to know how the numbers of dissected LNs may affect the...

If we imagine our immune system to be a police force for our bodies, then previous work has suggested that the Lymph nodes would be the best candidate structures within the body to act as police stations "“ the regions in which the immune response is organized. However, Prof. Burkhard Becher, University of Zurich, suggests in a new paper "“ published in this week's issue of PLoS Biology "“ that lymph nodes are not essential in the mouse in marshalling T-cells (a main immune foot...

A new phase III clinical trial of early stage breast cancer patients has shown that a molecule designed to home in on nearby lymph nodes is just as accurate as current techniques, but faster, more specific and easier to use."These results will really enable molecular biology to enter the operating room for lymph node detection," said breast surgeon Anne Wallace, MD, professor of clinical surgery at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, and one of the...

- Results demonstrate that GCC is the strongest independent predictor of colorectal cancer recurrence - Ticker Symbol: CUR QUEBEC CITY, QC and WEST CHESTER, PA, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Vol. 301, #7, this week published positive results from a major prospective 5-year multicenter study of over 400 enrolled patients demonstrating that guanylyl cyclase C (GCC) is the strongest independent...

St. Jude study shows the Prox1 gene is a two-way switch that, if turned off, causes lymphatic endothelial cells to be reprogrammed so that they lose their identity and become more like blood endothelial cells MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered that a certain differentiated cell type is so ready to change its identity that it requires the constant expression of a gene called Prox1 to dissuade it. The...