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ZÜRICH, Switzerland, October 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequana Medical is pleased to announce that it has received CE mark approval for use of its alfapump(R) system in patients with ascites caused by cancer (malignant ascites). The alfapump(R) system was first introduced to the European market last year for patients with refractory ascites caused by advanced liver disease. The system is fully implantable, and automatically and continually collects ascites from the abdominal...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- PET and CT scans, which shows images of both functional and anatomical changes in the body, are useful for viewing ovarian cancer before any operations are done. Physicians can predict whether a mass is malignant, cancerous but stable, or benign using this method."We found that PET/CT imaging with the radiotracer 18F-FDG gave us beneficial information about the ovarian cancer stage that helped gynecologists in their treatment planning," Majbritt Frost, research...

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an uncommon benign neoplasm with locally aggressive behavior but malignant change is rare. Such a rare tumor occurring in a 14-year-old patient with clinical presentations of abdominal pain and body weight loss was seldom described before.A research article to be published on June 7, 2010 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question. A research team led by Professor Ko from Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Chang Gung...

Breast MRI allows physicians to evaluate suspicious lesions using a variety of variables. Researchers have found though that computer-aided kinetic information can help significantly in distinguishing benign from malignant suspicious breast lesions on MRI, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR).In the study, performed at the University of Washington Medical Center, researchers analyzed and compared the computer-aided evaluation...