Cancer patients in rural areas are more likely than those in cities to retire early and less likely to get paid disability while undergoing treatment, a new study finds. The findings indicate that rural cancer patients are more likely to ...
Exercise can provide older breast cancer survivors with lasting benefits that keep their bones strong and help prevent fractures, a new study suggests. Breast cancer treatment is associated with the loss of bone density and lean body ...
Tags: exercise, Breast cancer treatment, bone density, lean body mass
Investors apparently like the potential for the ViewRay system — a combo of simultaneous MRI and radiation therapy delivery that has already been acquired by major five cancer treatment centers worldwide. Cleveland–based ...
Nucletron has announced that the first Esteya electronic brachytherapy system in the US has been installed at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Esteya by Nucletron, an Elekta company, is a new approach for skin cancer ...
Tags: Nucletron, Skin Cancer
One year of exercise can ensure steady maintenance of bone density to help prevent fractures in older breast cancer survivors, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Jessica Dobek and Kerri Winters-Stone, both of the Oregon Health and Science ...
Tags: exercise, health, cancer treatment
Novian Health, the developer of Novilase breast therapy, has announced the issuance of a new US patent covering the interstitial laser therapy in combination with interstitial brachytherapy treatment. Novian Health has developed the ...
Tags: Novian Health, Breast Cancer
CDRD Ventures, the commercialization vehicle of The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), has announced the launch of a new spin-off company, Sitka Biopharma is a biotechnology company developing a new bladder cancer treatment. ...
US-based research and development biotechnology firm Boston Strategics has entered into a new drug development partnership with Fujifilm Pharmaceuticals USA (FPHU), a global pharmaceutical development center of Japan's Fujifilm Corporation. ...
Tags: Oncology Drugs, Fujifilm Pharma
Agalimmune, a biopharmaceutical company, has been created to develop innovative immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, with a focus on solid tumours. The new company has been founded by an investment group comprising Loxbridge ...
Tags: solid tumours, cancer treatment
"There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all being systematically suppressed by ... the major oncology centers. They have too much of an interest in the status quo," stated Dr Robert Atkins, MD, creator of the ...
Senesco Technologies reported the treatment of the first patient at the Company’s newly opened clinical-trial site at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA). This patient is part of Senesco’s Phase 1b/2a clinical study of its ...
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The statistics can be staggering: one in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning this year (that's nearly 53 million people). A very likely place for food poisoning is in the home: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
US-based biopharmaceutical company Immunomedics has announced the issuance of a US patent to its majority-owned subsidiary, IBC Pharmaceuticals, for ‘Novel Strategies for Improved Cancer Vaccines’. The new patent concerns ...
Boehringer Ingelheim has submitted a marketing authorisation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the approval of its oral triple angiokinase inhibitor nintedanib. Nintedanib to be used in combination with docetaxel is ...
Tags: Boehringer Ingelheim, Lung Cancer
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)'s Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) and Swiss biopharmaceutical firm Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm) have signed an exclusive research collaboration to develop oral small molecules ...
Tags: Cancer Drugs, Medicine