Radiation Oncologists Study 'Toxicity Map' Of Brain To Help Protect Cognition For Cancer Patients

March 23, 2013
New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is giving radiation oncologists who treat brain tumors a better understanding of how to preserve the brain's functions while still killing cancer.

Ann M. Peiffer, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at Wake Forest Baptist, and colleagues looked at how radiation treatment to different brain areas impacts function to help protect cognition for patients during and after radiation therapy and beyond. Read more...

Better Cancer Detection, More Accurate Staging With New Imaging Agent

March 23, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a new imaging dye, designed and developed at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, is an effective agent in detecting and mapping cancers that have reached the lymph nodes. The radioactive dye called Technetium Tc-99m tilmanocept, successfully identified cancerous lymph nodes and did a better job of marking cancers than the current standard dye. Results of the Phase III clinical trial have been published online in the Annals of Surgical Oncology. Read more:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258007.php