Are you interested in learning more about brain cancer treatments? On Wednesday, October 8, 2008, ORlive will webcast a panel of physicians discussing the case of a brain tumor patient treated with CyberKnife® technology.

Conducting cancer research involving radiotracers and PET scans? If so, you might want to check out this new discovery from Brookhaven National Laboratory.

18 institutions across Europe are teaming up to create pocket-size, energy-efficient lasers. The 4-year project could make cancer care more accessible.

A whimsical castle and some fun gifts help a US cancer center get sick children over their fear of radiation sessions used to treat their disease.

Two California universities and MIT team up to create a polymer-protected nanoworm that may one day make it possible to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors.

South African health officials are hoping the installation a new Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scanner will help them reduce cancer deaths in their country. While PET-CT imaging devices are commonly used to diagnose cancer in US hospitals, this is only the second one available to patients in South Africa’s public hospitals. Mr [...]

German physicians have successfully used ovarian tissue implants to restore fertility to a 32-year-old cancer survivor who lost her ability to get pregnant after receiving treatments for anal cancer. Knowing the tumor’s close proximity to reproductive organs increased the possibility of infertility, doctors at Erlangen University Hospital removed healthy ovarian tissue from the young woman [...]

Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed an environmentally friendly technique for determining which types of radiation exposure cause the most damage to human DNA – damage that can ultimately lead to cancer. BNL scientists Betsy Sutherland and Brigitte Paap, who’s now at Arizona State University, devised a [...]

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a new imaging system capable of detecting cancerous tumors a thousand times smaller than those visible to other medical imaging devices. The innovative imaging technique, known as Raman spectroscopy, relies on beacon signals created by nanoparticles injected into the body. A laser light is beamed [...]

A study conducted at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital has shown that some kids with kidney cancers classified “inoperable” may actually be able to keep normal kidney function with the help of a surgical procedure called nephron-sparing surgery. Between 1999 and 2006, St Jude conducted nephron-sparing surgery, otherwise known as partial nephrectomy, on 10 kidney [...]