Prostate News Archive
29-Oct-2007
Hospital to buy surgery system (The Florida Times-Union)
AUGUSTA - A prostate cancer patient at University Hospital soon might have his tumor removed without being touched by a surgeon's hands. iPlan(R) Automatic Segmentation Saves 25 Minutes of Treatment Planning Time for Each Prostate Cancer Patient at the ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
iPlan RT treatment planning software is helping the University of Nebraska Medical Center to save more than 83 percent in planning time, while achieving greater consistency in radiotherapy treatments for prostate cancer. Guided radiation therapy for prostate cancer prevents damage to surrounding organs (EurekAlert!)
PORTLAND, Ore. ? Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have found that highly targeted radiation therapy for prostate cancer can ensure that the majority of persons with this tumor will not have any long-term rectal damage. Predicting Unilateral Prostate Cancer Based On Biopsy Features: Implications For Focal Ablative Therapy Results From ... (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com- New focal ablative therapies that just treat areas of the prostate containing tumor are being reported. However, according to a report in the October, 2007 issue of the Journal of Urology from the SEARCH Database, unilateral prostate cancer (CaP) can not be identified preoperatively by biopsy criteria. [click link for full article]
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