The article reports on the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) cancer study, which revealed that men with early stage prostate cancer can have an increased chance of living longer through short-term hormone therapy prior to and during intermediate dose radiation treatment. According to...
Combined androgen deprivation therapy and radiation therapy for locally advanced prostate cancer: a randomised, phase 3 trial. Whether the addition of radiation therapy (RT) improves overall survival in men with locally advanced prostate cancer managed with androgen deprivation the... P Warde,M Mason...
Synergistic Effects of Weightlessness, Isoproterenol, and Radiation on DNA Damage Response and Cytokine Production in Immune Cells Interestingly, stress hormones influence cellular immune pathways affected by microgravity, such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, DNA repair, and T cell ... M Moreno-Villanue...
After a hormone is discharged by its parent gland into the capillaries or the lymph, it may travel a circuitous path through the bloodstream to exert influence on cells, tissues, and organs (target organs) far removed from its site of origin.One of the best-known endocrine hormones is ...
Predictive factors for erectile dysfunction in men with prostate cancer after brachytherapy: Is dose to the penile bulb important? Purpose: To determine predictive factors for postimplant erectile dysfunction (ED) in a cohort of patients, according to prospectively collected data; spec... A.,Graham...
While the connection between idiopathic and much of women’s health is easy to attribute to a lack of money, the notion of idiopathy is much more complicated than simply funding priorities. After all, cancer is considered idiopathic – and as we all know cancer is an industry, receiving billi...
After finalizing the experiment (40 days), the rats in different studied groups were fasted overnight and anaesthetized with pentobarbital 45 mg/kg intraperitoneally44to collect blood samples from the tail vein. Then, the animals were sacrificed and the testes were dissected and washed in saline ...
Bombesin Bombesin is under investigation in clinical trial NCT01205321 (PET/CT Imaging for Radiation Dosimetry, Plasma Pharmacokinetics, Biodistribution, Safety and Tolerability and Diagnostic Performance of BAY86-7548 in Patients With Prostate Cancer and... Procalcitonin Procalcitonin is under investigation ...
B16-F10 cells cultured to low density (12 h after seeding) show a high GSH content (40 + 5 nmol/106 cells, n=7); whereas these cells, when incubated in the presence of 1 mM BSO (L-buthionine (SR)-sulphoximine, the non-toxic and selective GSH synthesis inhibitor [1]), show a ...
Next, everybody gave us the obligatory best-case/worst-case scenarios, after which I was scheduled for my radiation tattoos, body molds, and chemo instruction in preparation for my first treatments and corresponding blood monitoring tests. Having turned down radical surgery and the chemo port (per...