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Less Invasive Lung Cancer Staging Looks Promising by HealthFinder Posted Tue 23 Nov 2010 12:00pm suggests. This process, called staging, is usually done via a major operation called a thoracotomy. If the cancer is confined to the lung, then the operation can remove the cancer... Medical Center in the Netherlands. Staging the cancer is important, because the type of treatment depends on whether the cancer has spread beyond the lung or not. If the lymph Read on »

Less Invasive Lung Cancer Staging Looks Promising by Medline Plus Posted Tue 23 Nov 2010 4:00pm , called staging, is usually done via a major operation called a thoracotomy. If the cancer is confined to the lung, then the operation can remove the cancer. However, if the cancer... Center in the Netherlands. Staging the cancer is important, because the type of treatment depends on whether the cancer has spread beyond the lung or not. If the lymph nodes Read on »

Your Breast Cancer is Stage Now by Brenda Coffee Health Maven

Posted Mon 04 Jan 2010 11:09am . Take Lance Armstrong who in 1996, was diagnosed with Stage IV testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs, abdomen and brain. His doctors gave him less than a 3 percent... From the second we hear “you have breast cancer,” we begin talking in terms of what stage cancer we have. Stages are assigned according to size of primary tumor Read on »

Cancer Stages, Treatments, and offsetting Side Effects by Healthy Living .. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 1:17am

1 Comment into how involved the cancerous cells are, affecting both the local area and nearby organs. Stage IV involves other areas and organs, with numerous metastases or spreading... regarding the stages of cancer, the treatments prescribed, and ways to avoid side effects. Please remember, always consult your doctor or health practitioner regarding dietary changes Read on »

New Canadian Cancer Staging Initiative by Daria Posted Wed 03 Nov 2010 12:00am We now have a new National Staging Initiative to collect standardized data about cancer stage across Canada. It’s a first- of- its-kind long-term collaboration that should improve care and save lives. Staging refers to the classification of patients with cancer into similar groups according to the extent of disease. On an individual basis Read on »

Previstage GCC Colon Cancer Staging Test by Mark Levin Posted Fri 31 Jul 2009 7:54pm , this method has important limitations. Previstage™ GCC Colorectal Cancer Staging Test attempts to overcome problems with sampling errors, marker specificity and persistence... test for staging patients with colorectal cancer Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics September 2008, Vol. 8, No. 5, Pages 571-578 Read on »

First laparoscopic ovarian cancer staging procedure performed at Northwest Hospital in Baltimore by Elizabeth Leis Patient Expert

Posted Thu 16 Apr 2009 12:32am Gynecological surgeon David Zisow, M.D., recently performed a laparoscopic procedure to stage a case of ovarian cancer at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown – a first for the hospital. Laparoscopic staging is a procedure that is commonly performed at academic medical centers but rarely at a community hospital like Northwest. Cancer staging involves Read on »

Intraperitoneal chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, stage II by Mark Levin Posted Fri 21 Aug 2009 12:22pm and sequential intraperitoneal cisplatin and paclitaxel in previously untreated stage III ovarian cancer. Patients who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median... with optimally debulked stage III ovarian cancer. This patient had stage IIC but some guidelines include stage II as well. Jaaback K, Johnson N. Intraperitoneal chemotherapy Read on »

Novel Lung Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise In Fighting Early-Stage Lung Cancer by COPDsurvivor Patient Expert

Posted Thu 23 Apr 2009 5:25pm such as the MAGE-A3 protein,” said Dr. Anthony Kim, thoracic surgeon and principal investigator of the study at Rush. “In a trial of early-stage lung cancer patients whose tumors expressed... of chemotherapy. Surgery is the standard treatment for patients with early-stage lung cancer, but approximately 50 percent of patients who have surgery ultimately die of lung cancer Read on »

Genetic Pattern Indicates Early-Stage Lung Cancer by COPDsurvivor Patient Expert

Posted Wed 02 Dec 2009 10:04am indicate early-stage lung tumors in people at high risk for developing lung cancer. The findings, published online December 1 in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, could lead to a simple blood test to detect lung cancer in its earliest phases, when it can be most successfully treated. Wistar investigators Louise Read on »