BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
News Trials on the treatment of brain and skin tumours have taken place and the system is now being extended to the treatment of breast cancer. Professor Michael Baum treated the first UK breast cancer patient at Middlesex hospital in July and a second...
[December 3, 1998, 14:19]
BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
Talkback Would the treatment work for inoperable pancreatic cancer? My brother has just been diagnosed,very poor prognosis am searching for any solutions.
[October 28, 2004, 15:27]
BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
Talkback My sister was diagnosed with brain cancer.She has had radium treatment(14 sessions).The dr's has no further treatment to give.She has now developed shingles on her abdomen.She lost her speech when they did a biopsy to see how old the tumour is...
[January 22, 2004, 8:08]
IBM Wireless E-Business Solution Meets Drug Company Aventis's On-Demand Need For Swift Feedback On Cancer Treatment
White Papers Aventis Pharmaceuticals is the U.S.subsidiary of Aventis Pharma, the pharmaceutical arm of Europe's Aventis. The challenge was to find a way to motivate participants responding to marketing surveys by relaying interim results and feedback much more...
[September 15, 2005, 0:00]
Cancer Therapy And Research Center Ensures Superior Cancer Care With Cisco ISCSI And Network Boot Technology
White Papers Texas-based Cancer Therapy and Research Center (CTRC) is a world leader in cancer treatment and research. In recent years the CTRC has seen an increase in the number of patients needing radiation treatment, which has had a significant effect on its...
[February 19, 2005, 23:00]
Alberta Cancer Board Gets Business And IT In Synch With Help From HP Services
White Papers The Alberta Cancer Board (ACB) is an Alberta government agency that provides cancer prevention and screening, public education, diagnosis, and treatment services through more than 19 centers across the province of Alberta.
[April 9, 2005, 0:00]
The National Cancer Center In Japan Employs Advanced Text Analysis Tools To Help Match Patients With Treatment Protocols
White Papers MedTAKMI-CDI currently handles information on roughly 7,000 patients receiving treatment at the National Cancer Center. IBM Research, working together with Global Business Services (GBS), teamed with the National Cancer Center in Japan to develop a...
[June 11, 2008, 1:01]
Innovative Tech At Cambridge Open Day
News A new approach to screening drugs for cancer treatment was also unveiled by Cambridge-based company Horizon Discovery. The development could be used to personalise medicine to fight cancer more effectively with fewer side effects.
[September 7, 2007, 17:32]
National Institute For The Study And Treatment Of Tumors Improves Project Management And Analysis
White Papers The National Institute for the Study and Treatment of Tumors was one of the first organizations to address cancer treatment and research under one roof. The organization wanted to implement a new financial management system that could standardize...
[December 23, 2006, 0:00]
BC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre Speeds Biological Breakthroughs By Standardizing On Network Appliance
White Papers Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) advances cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment via high-throughput genome mapping and DNA sequencing. The challenge was to scale to tens of millions of files and eliminate disruptive crashes.
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Delivers Attention-Grabbing Brochures By Using An HP Color LaserJet 9500 Printer
White Papers As a world leader in research to understand, treat and prevent cancer, HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening diseases, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is credited with pioneering bone-marrow transplantation as a successful treatment for...
[December 20, 2006, 0:00]
Collaboration, Visualization Tool Speeds Vital Cancer Research At Biomedical Center
White Papers With mountains of data created daily, The Scripps Research Institute, a world-renowned cancer and biomedical research facility, needed to help scientists and doctors from a variety of disciplines link their work on potential cancer treatments with...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
Government Concedes Opt Out Of NHS Database
Talkback I was diagnosed with cancer and opted to be referred to a hospital in London for the recommended operation (the choice was based on consultant recommendation and performance statistics from NWCS/HES).
[July 5, 2005, 9:34]
Hoax E-mail Hits AOL
News Unemployed, with one of us going through a divorce (me) and another who is about to undergo treatment for Cancer (sic), our combined financial situation is not currently enough to release any sort or (sic) article," the E-mailer wrote.
[October 8, 1997, 11:06]
Steve Jobs Has Surgery For Cancer
News Jobs noted that he has "a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor," which can be removed through surgery if caught in time and said he will not require chemotherapy or radiation treatment.
[August 2, 2004, 8:50]
Study Claims Mobile Base Stations Are Safe
News Mast Sanity, a pressure group which campaigns against the building of cellular base stations, issued a statement on Tuesday criticising the study for ignoring "the long-term effects, such as cancer and genetic damage, as has been highlighted in...
[July 25, 2007, 12:55]
IBM Nurtures Biological Growth
News For example, genes that go awry can cause cancer, so the goal is to find potential drugs that could interrupt this process. Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre at the University of South Florida. Moffitt researchers, meanwhile, are working with IBM to screen...
[June 1, 2004, 11:55]
Ozzie's Peer-to-peer To Hit Corporate Networks
News This model for small group interaction both within and beyond our firewall will assist in helping us achieve our overall goals of improving quality business communications and reducing time to market for health care products that we develop...
[October 24, 2000, 16:03]
