Dr Mihir Desai, a urological surgeon at Cleveland Clinic, has performed the world’s first single-port laparoscopic surgeries in the field of urology. The innovative procedures were completed by inserting all the necessary instruments through a single incision in the patient’s navel. Laparoscopic surgeries traditionally require 3 to 6 abdominal incisions. Dr Desai’s single-port surgeries included [...]

A study conducted by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, indicates more than one-third of men being treated for early prostate cancer may receive “mismatched” care that’s inappropriate based on their pre-existing health conditions. Standardized treatment options for early prostate cancer include external beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy, prostatectomy, and [...]

Results of a Swedish study published in the November 2007 issue of The Lancet Oncology show children of parents who survived certain cancers are more likely to survive the disease if it strikes them too. To arrive at their conclusion, researchers from the Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm Söder Hospital, studied data on over three million [...]

Scientists from the University of Chieti in Italy have found that a gene which normally functions in the placenta during the early stages of pregnancy is also expressed in most human cancers. Professor Saverio Alberti and his team discovered that the Trop-2 gene was involved in the formation of invasive cells needed during the stage [...]

Baton Rouge dentist and pilot Walter Atkinson is the subject of this video about using Proton Beam Therapy to treat prostate cancer. Click to go to Proton Beam Therapy Video Dr. Atkinson received his treatment at the Proton Therapy Center at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston with technology developed by [...]

A new program inspired by the movie Barbershop is helping reduce the risk of prostate cancer for thousands of black men in America. More than a 100 medical centers around the country educated hundreds of barbers about free prostate cancer screening programs so they could pass the information on to their customers. Some participating barbershops [...]

Two common cancers–one which strikes women and another that strikes men–will be sharing the spotlight next month. President George W. Bush has signed a pair of official proclamations declaring September 2007 National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. The proclamations serve as a tribute to the many scientists, researchers, and healthcare [...]

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center have discovered the presence of a molecule that could improve a doctor’s ability to predict whether prostate cancer will return or progress in patients being treated for the disease. The molecule under scrutiny is identified as B7-H3. Mayo’s scientists were able to demonstrate that B7-H3 was present in [...]

The Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI) has announced plans to open a 22 million dollar Proton Beam Radiation Therapy (PBRT) treatment facility which will be the first one of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. PBRT is designed to target tumors that are in close proximity to critical body structures. It is currently used to treat [...]

Biomedical engineers have developed a new method for destroying cancer cells which doesn’t require drugs or damage healthy tissue. The innovative process is called irreversible electroporation, or IRE, and it uses short intense electric pulses to create openings in the pores of cancer cells causing them to die. IRE was invented by two engineers, Rafael [...]