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New high-tech device for cancer treatment debuts in Naples PHOTOS/LINKS

Published July 3, 2009, 1:25 pm, Naples Daily News

The RapidArc turns around the patient for better dose distribution, something that no other computer-controlled radiation system, or what’s called intensity-modulated radiation therapy, can do. The urology practice just debuted the RapidArc this past week, starting with patients with prostate cancer and will roll out the system to patients with other cancers shortly.

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Likely FDA Approval Gives Dendreon A Lift

Published July 2, 2009, 3:14 pm, Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance

Excitement over its Provenge cancer drug continues to build at Dendreon, the Seattle-based biotech that has seen shares hover near their all-time...

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Likely FDA Approval Gives Dendreon A Lift

Published July 2, 2009, 3:14 pm, Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News

Excitement over its Provenge cancer drug continues to build at Dendreon, the Seattle-based biotech that has seen shares hover near their all-time high for the past month.

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Gastrointestinal Endoscopy June Issue Study Highlights

Published July 1, 2009, 3:24 am, Medical News Today

Polyp detection rates at screening colonoscopy; EUS-based criteria for the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis In the June issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), a study looking at polyp de

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New Class of Drugs Promising for BRCA-Related Cancers

Published July 1, 2009, 12:33 am, American Cancer Society

Drugs called PARP inhibitors may be effective against hereditary cancers caused by BRCA1 and BRCA2 cell mutations.

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Mounting cost of cancer drugs raises questions about their value

Published June 30, 2009, 12:52 pm, Scientific American

How much are cancer drugs worth that may only prolong a patient’s life by a few weeks? It’s a pressing question given the rising cost of medicines, and one that a pair of National Institutes of Health researchers is urging cancer specialists to tackle now. [More]

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Medical Professionals Issue Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Cancer Therapies

Published June 30, 2009, 12:17 pm, redOrbit

Two experts from the National Institutes of Health have released a new report which questions the use of expensive treatments for cancer patients that only extend their lifespan for a short time.In comments published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Tito Fojo, of the Medical Oncology Branch, Center of Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland, and ...

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Cancer Therapies: How Much Is Life Worth? The $440 Billion Question

Published June 30, 2009, 7:24 am, Medical News Today

The decision to use expensive cancer therapies that typically produce only a relatively short extension of survival is a serious ethical dilemma in the U.S. that needs to be addressed by the oncology community, according to a commentary published online June 29 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Tito Fojo, M.D., Ph.D.

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Saladax Biomedical, Inc. Signs Agreement with Stockholm's Karolinska University Hospital

Published June 30, 2009, 7:11 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

BETHLEHEM, Pa.----Saladax Biomedical, Inc. , developer of the Personalized Chemotherapy Management line of tests to measure blood levels of cancer drugs, has signed an agreement with the Karolinska University Hospital, of Stockholm, Sweden.

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How Much Is Life Worth? The $440 Billion Question

Published June 29, 2009, 7:22 pm, Science Daily

The decision to use expensive cancer therapies that typically produce only a relatively short extension of survival is a serious ethical dilemma in the United States that needs to be addressed by the oncology community, according to a commentary published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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