| Radiofrequency Ablation Growing In Popularity As A Treatment For ...
Millennium Research Group forecasts that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) procedures for cancer treatment will grow at almost 12% over the next five years in the US. According to Millennium Research Group's US Markets for Nonvascular Interventional Radiology Devices 2008 report, over 21,000 RFA procedures will be performed in 2007 on patients with liver, kidney, breast, lung, and metastatic bone cancers; by 2012, RFA procedures will reach over 36,000.
Physicians are opting for this surgery due to its minimally invasive nature and its ability to safely and precisely ablate small tumors. If the continued release of clinical evidence supports RFA treatment as a viable alternative to surgical resection, physician confidence in and the subsequent adoption of RFA devices take place.
"RFA can be used in cases where surgical resection poses too great of a risk to the patient," says Stephanie LaBelle, Analyst at MRG.
Obituary: Mayfield and beloved dog participated in hospital program
Having pets convinced William "Bill" Mayfield of the need to help elderly people who couldn't afford emergency treatment for their own animals. The loss six years ago to cancer of Sir Winston, his beloved Shetland sheepdog, prompted Mayfield and his wife, Linda, to establish the Sir Winston Memorial Fund. "Bill was passionate about helping elderly people for whom their pets are everything," Linda Mayfield said. "He had a kind heart and he wanted to save people from making the terrible decision of putting down a pet because they can't pay for treatment." Mayfield, 75, died Monday from complications of pneumonia and cancer. The retired vice chairman of the Merry X-Ray Corporation, a San Diego, Calif.-based imaging distributor, and his wife settled in San Antonio 13 years ago.
Toshiba Introduces FaCTor64 Study to Improve Early Diagnosis and ...
Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. today announced faCTor64, the Screening For Asymptomatic Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease Among High-Risk Diabetic Patients Using CT Angiography, Following CorE 64: A Randomized Control Study. Toshiba's CorE 64 (Coronary Evaluation on 64) study is taking place across seven countries comparing the use of CT as the primary diagnostic tool for detecting cardiovascular diseases and disorders, as compared to cardiac catheterization. It is estimated that approximately 16-million Americans have coronary heart disease (CHD) of which 500,000 die annually. Most people with CHD have no symptoms and about 300,000 per year have their first presentation of CHD as either heart attack or sudden death. Nonetheless, there is no accepted detection test for the presence of CHD, as there is for breast cancer or colon cancer.
Preserve Redding's small-town scale
These things don't help the local economy but keep everyone living paycheck to paycheck. OK, so the high-rises will only be downtown. How long will that last? The determination of an environment is happening here, folks. Look at Chico's success, without big high-rises. Oh, that's right, they have a state university, something we could have had a few years back. The folks who think we need big buildings need to move to the city. Get out of my town! Valerie Ford Cottonwood Stop the endless big-box sprawl I just read with great horror that tall buildings and more space for big box stores are to be given serious consideration by the Redding Planning Commission. This knowledge was as if being in a nightmare of the most frightening kind. Architecturally, Redding has some exemplary examples of buildings that enhance our local character and many others that just blow aesthetics right out the window.
Cost-Effectiveness Study Supports Use of EUFLEXXA(TM) by ...
BOSTON, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Ferring Pharmaceuticals presented the results of a cost-utility study supporting the adoption of EUFLEXXA(TM) (1% sodium hyaluronate) intra-articular hyaluronic acid (HA) for the relief of pain in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee at the American College of Rheumatology's Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA, November 6-11. Using data from a larger trial, the study demonstrated that an intra- articular treatment course of HA (EUFLEXXA(TM)) for knee OA, as compared with non-HA therapy, provides a cost-utility benefit that supports adopting this technology. The data also show that wider adoption of this technology would result in greater financial savings to the health care system. Osteoarthritis is one of the most common diseases seen in the rheumatologist's office, costing the health care system nearly $100 billion per year.
Cell phone films take center stage
Masked and demure, she speaks from the tiny screen of a cell phone like a thumb-size fairy forever trapped inside. "Welcome home," she says softly to the viewer. "Speak to me about anything." The minuscule video is among the works on display at a film festival that opened Dec. 7in Yokohama, featuring 48 movies - all shot on camera-equipped cell phones. Hazy and raw but urgently personal, these pocket-size statements on film, like Yuka Kojima's five-minute Thumb Girl, were selected from more than 400 entries in an international contest. .
ORU mum on details of meeting
Despite calls from faculty for greater transparency at Oral Roberts University, officials there clamped down on information Monday, refusing to release even the most basic details about a board of regents meeting.
Jeremy Burton, a spokesman for ORU, refused to respond to questions from the Tulsa World, including who attended the meeting, where it was held and what items are on the agenda.
Burton said the university would release information Tuesday, at the conclusion of the two-day regents meeting.
The regents meeting follows Friday's resignation by Richard Roberts as president of ORU. Roberts remains as president and chief executive officer of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association.
Roberts has been on leave since Oct. 17 during an investigation .
Description of Ovarian Cancer
Surgery is part of the treatment for almost all patients with ovarian cancer. Chemotherapy - the use of drugs to kill cancer cells - is generally given when there are signs that the cancer has spread, or when the entire tumor cannot be removed at the time of surgery. Radiation therapy may be used in addition to surgery to kill cancer cells that may remain in the pelvic area. Surgery for ovarian cancer includes removal of the ovaries, the uterus, and the fallopian tubes. However, if a woman has a very early, slow-growing tumor and wants to have a child, the doctor may decide to remove only the affected ovary. When the cancer has spread to other organs in the abdomen, doctors try to remove as much of the cancer as possible.This leaves a smaller amount to be treated by chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.
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