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01/17/3012

Lights, music, action…

The patient is soothed and ready for proton therapy …

04/11/2013

German Cancer Research Center to broaden strategic alliance with Bayer HealthCare

The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Bayer HealthCare (Bayer) will extend their successful strategic research alliance in search of novel cancer therapeutics by focusing …

04/02/2013

Breast Cancer Risk: Genes and Environment Interacting

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have been the first to prove that genetic and environmental risk factors for breast cancer do not act …

03/21/2013

Russian cancer research team gains international funding

The international research project ‘The Definition of new types of tumours containing potential mutations sensitivity to drugs’ has begun in Petrov Research Institute of …

03/14/2013

'Status quo bias' affecting take up rate for bowel cancer screening

The NHS has to overcome people’s ‘status-quo bias’ if it is to increase the number of screenings for bowel cancer. …

03/09/2013

Fujifilm’s continuing global presence

New business ventures, new systems – and those include 3-D mammography …

03/09/2013

Managing patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

The hepatocellular carcinoma is the sixth most frequent cause of cancer worldwide, explained Dr Bruno Sangro at ECR, and it is the third most frequent cause of death due to cancer. …

03/07/2013

ShearWave Elastography is relevant in diagnosis, staging, and prognosis for liver fibrosis

Across the globe, up to 400 million people carry the hepatitis B virus, and more than 180 million – approximately 400,000 in France – are infected with the hepatitis C virus. …

02/15/2013

New method to personalize chemotherapy drug selection

In laboratory studies, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a way to personalize chemotherapy drug selection for cancer patients by using cell lines …

02/10/2013

High volume mammo centres yield high quality research

With 350,000 mammography screenings annually, Unilabs Sweden finds itself on the leading edge for research in mammography and pioneering patient education programmes. John Brosky …

01/24/2013

The curious (and sad) tale of abandoned plans and dismantled hopes

A prototype for proton and ion therapy has been used clinically in Heidelberg since 2009. Built jointly by Siemens and GSI (Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt. …

01/17/2013

The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)

A dynamic new consortium was launched in October during the recent Innovation in Oncology event organised by the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) with Heidelberg University …

01/17/2013

Advancing personalised medicine

BRAF is a protein that plays an important part in the transmission of growth signals. In a mutated state it can lead to uncontrolled cell growth. Around every second malignant …

11/05/2012

Conference on personalised cancer therapy

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11/05/2012

Laser-light test helps show whose cancer is spreading

Using advanced microscopes equipped with tissue-penetrating laser light, cancer imaging experts at Johns Hopkins have developed a promising, new way to accurately analyze the …

11/05/2012

It’s not a done deal yet, says expert, but it’s absolutely where we are heading!

Personalised cancer medicine is much discussed, with high expectations for biomolecular decoding of various tumours and the global pharma industry developing targeted drugs to …

09/20/2012

Philips and Biocompatibles team-up to advance in interventional oncology

Launch of collaboration marked with development of new treatment protocol for trans-arterial embolization in hypervascular tumors. …

08/22/2012

Knowing the Enemy

Modern wars will be fought in the cyber zone, targeting an enemy's communications technology to cause critical damage; a Tel Aviv University researcher suggests to employ similar …

07/30/2012

Diagnostic tests followed by personalized medicine

A new genre of medical tests - which determine whether a medicine is right for a patient's genes - are paving the way for increased use of personalized medicine, according to the …

07/26/2012

Girl builds artificial ‘brain’ to detect breast cancer

An artificial “brain” built by a 17-year-old whiz kid from Florida is able to accurately assess tissue samples for signs of breast cancer, providing more confidence to a …

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