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A Pipeline Insight of the Cancer R and D Market: With a Focus on Lung, Brain, Head, Neck and Thyroid Tumors

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:32:00 +0200

DUBLIN, Ireland-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Pipeline Insight: Cancer Overview - Lung, Brain, Head and Neck, Thyroid" report to their offering.

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Atomic bomb's effect results in adult-onset thyroid cancer (News-Medical-Net)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:55:02 +0200

Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers.

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Atomic bomb explosion results in thyroid cancer in survivors at onset of adulthood (Re-Issue)

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:45:36 +0200

Washington, August 31 : A new research has led to the discovery that an atomic bomb explosion in a particular area can lead to thyroid cancer in survivors at the onset of adulthood.

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Some Hiroshima Survivors at Thyroid Cancer Risk

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:02:01 +0200

FRIDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) - Some Japanese survivors of the World War II atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced key genetic changes that may have sparked the onset of a form of thyroid cancer, new research indicates.

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Learn About the Pipeline Insight: Cancer Overview-Lung, Brain, Head and Neck, Thyroid

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:44:00 +0200

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Healthcare industry is available in its catalogue.

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Comparison of -methoxyisobutyl isonitrile and scintigraphy for detection of residual thyroid cancer after ablative therapy

In this study, we compared ^sup 99m^Tc-methoxyisobutyl isonitrile with ^sup 201^TI scintigraphy for the detection of residual thyroid cancer not found by ^sup 131^I scans in patients with increased risk of recurrence after 131 therapy. Methods: ^sup 201^TI and MIBI scans were obtained in 54 ...

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Data On THALOMID In Thyroid Cancer To Be Presented At Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium.

Celgene Corporation announced today that Kenneth B. Ain, M.D., Director of the Thyroid Cancer Research Laboratory at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, will present interim data on THALOMID in rapidly progressive, radioiodine-unresponsive metastatic follicular or papillary ...

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Thyroid Cancer Afflicts Thousands Yearly

RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer AP Online 10-26-2004 Dateline: WASHINGTON In thyroid cancer, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist faces a disease that can be mild or very aggressive, depending on the type of cancer. The type affecting Rehnquist was not announced immediately. This ...

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Thyroid cancer very treatable, or it's a killer

Thyroid cancer very treatable, or it's a killer The recent diagnosis of thyroid cancer in Chief Justice William Rehnquist brings attention to a less common cancer. Among the estimated 1.4 million new cancer cases in the U.S. this year, 23,600 will be thyroid cancer, according to the American Cancer ...

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New therapies favored over old in thyroid cancer

Tried-and-true drugs may not necessarily be the best, at least when it comes to certain types of thyroid cancer. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has updated the clinical practice guidelines for thyroid carcinoma. For thyroid cancers that have metastasized to other areas of the ...

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Video helps bring attention to resident with thyroid cancer (Barrington Courier-Review)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:55:18 +0200

On Saturday Barrington businesses and residents will gather at Citizens Park to raise money and support fellow resident Paulina Messina as she battles thyroid cancer.

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INCREASE IN THYROID CANCER IN U.S. ATTRIBUTED TO IMPROVED EARLY DETECTION

Dartmouth Medical School issued the following news release: Although the incidence of thyroid cancer has more than doubled in the past 30 years, the increase is being attributed to improved diagnostic techniques of previously undetected disease, rather than a true increase in the occurrence of ...

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Innovative strategies for less common thyroid cancers

For 50 years, doctors have successfully treated most cases of thyroid cancer with a combination of surgery to remove the tumor and radioactive 131I to eliminate residual cancer cells. Radioiodine has been effective against the two most common forms of thyroid cancer: papillary and follicular. Now, ...

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Introduction to the updated guidelines on the management of thyroid cancer

Petros Perros, on behalf of the Thyroid Cancer Guidelines Update Group Diagnosis and management of thyroid cancer Treating patients with thyroid cancer poses several challenges for the health professional. The lack of a sensitive and specific diagnostic tool for identifying the few patients with ...

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Better detection key to rise in thyroid cancer.

Thyroid cancer incidence has more than doubled over the last 30 years in the United States, and virtually all of that increase has resulted from improved detection of small papillary tumors, reported Dr. Louise Davies and Dr. H. Gilbert Welch of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River ...

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The Treatment of Thyroid Cancer

THYROID CANCER HAS LONG been recognized as a relatively rare malignancy that, with appropriate treatment, has a good long-term prognosis and cure rate. Historically, patients with thyroid cancer have been divided into low and high-risk subsets in an effort to guide therapeutic decisions and ...

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