Posts Tagged ‘carcinoma’

Colorectal Carcinoma And Leukemia-Related Protein 16

Leukemia related protein 16 (LRP16) gene is an important estrogen-responsive gene. LRP16 gene plays an important role in the carcinogenesis and progression of hormone-dependent cancer. LRP16 expression was also reported to be associated with invasion, metastasis and prognosis of gastric carcinoma. But no comprehensive description of LRP16 protein expression [...]

Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma And Perioperative Chemoradiotherapy

Esophagectomy is a standard treatment for resectable esophageal carcinoma but relatively few patients are cured. Combined neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) or adjuvant CRT with surgery may improve survival but there is concern about treatment morbidity and the best sequencing of CRT and surgery.
A research team from China used a prospective study, based [...]

ArQule Announces Results Of Phase 2 Trial With ARQ 197 In Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

ArQule, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQL) today announced that ARQ 197, when used in combination with erlotinib, demonstrated a 66% improvement in median Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in patients with advanced, refractory non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In the intent to treat (ITT) population (n = 167), median PFS was 16.1 weeks in the [...]

Detection Of Unsuspected Cancers Beyond Colon Revealed By Virtual Colonoscopy

A new, large-scale study of more than 10,000 adults found that more than one in every 200 asymptomatic people screened with CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, had clinically unsuspected malignant cancer and more than half of the cancers were located outside the colon. The findings were published in the April issue [...]

Novel Interventional Radiology Treatment With Microspheres Shows Promise For Liver Cancer Patients

An interventional radiology treatment the use of intra-arterial yttrium-90 microspheres for liver cancer (also known as hepatocellular carcinoma) shows promise in prolonging life for many patients with this devastating condition, according to researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla.
“This is encouraging news for [...]

Ultrasound lectures 7 (Biliary Dilatation)

Biliary Dilatation
Clinical
US is approximately 90% accurate in differentiating obstructive from non-obstructive jaundice by depicting the presence of biliary dilatation. Causes for biliary dilatation are impacted gallstone in CBD or at ampulla, benign stricture, pancreatic carcinoma , cholangitis, biliary surgery, and chronic pancreatitis.

In the transverse image, the common bile [...]

Focal Nodular Hyperplasia: Morphologic and Functional Information from MR Imaging with Gadobenate Dimeglumine

Focal Nodular Hyperplasia: Morphologic and Functional Information from MR Imaging with Gadobenate Dimeglumine1

Luigi Grazioli, MD,
Giovanni Morana, MD,
Michael P. Federle, MD,
Giuseppe Brancatelli, MD,
Marco Testoni, MD,
Miles A. Kirchin, PhD,
Katiuscia Menni, MD,
Lucio Olivetti, MD,
Nicola Nicoli, MD and
Carlo Procacci, MD

+ Author Affiliations

1From the Department of Radiology, University of Brescia, Spedali Civili di Brescia, Piazzale Spedali Civili 1, 25023 Brescia, [...]

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