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Poor Sources Guide Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions

...This often results in However, in selecting a treatment, patients didn't consistently rely on the scientific evidence of a therapy's effectiveness in either controlling the cancer or prolonging life, the review found.For example, one study found that as few as one in four patients based their decision on evidence that a treatment actually worked to eradicate disease.Doctors often presented This either biased patients' decisions about treatments or made them turn to other sources of information, the review said.The studies included in this review did not show how or if The review authors said it's likely that patients "have significant limitations in their ability to identify biased information, ...

Study at Emory Shows Varian Medical Systems' On-Board Imager(TM) ...

... Study at Emory Shows Varian Medical Systems' On-Board Imager(TM) Device Improves Tumor Targeting Without Slowing Clinical Workflow Study at Emory Shows Varian Medical Systems' On-Board Imager(TM) Device Improves Tumor Targeting Without Slowing Clinical Workflow PALO ALTO, Calif., March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Varian Medical Systems' On-Board Imager(TM) (OBI) device for delivering image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) efficiently improves tumor targeting, according to a study by clinicians at the Emory University School of Medicine, recently published in the Journal of American College of Radiology.

"We showed that it is clinically practical to treat cancer using new image-guided radiotherapy techniques without slowing the operations of a busy radiation oncology department," said Tim Fox, PhD, lead author of the study and director of medical physics at the Emory University School of Medicine.

Using Varian's On-Board Imager, the Emory research team measured the time required to deliver image-guided treatments and found that the process can be smoothly and efficiently integrated into the department's normal clinical workflow.

The On-Board Imager and associated processing software were used to generate and analyze radiographic kilovoltage (kV) X-ray images prior to each patient's treatment, compare them with reference images from the treatment plan, and fine-tune the patient's position for treatment.

The average amount of time it ...

American veterans stand for justice for Vietnamese AO victims

...Frank was the local Philadelphia organiser for the Agent Orange Justice Tour in the past fall.

Meanwhile, Daniel J.

Shea, another American veteran, said he may have been exposed to Agent Orange in Quang Tri, or Da Nang central provinces during the war in Viet Nam.

His first son, Casey, was born in 1977 with a congenital heart disease, cleft palate and other stomach and groin abnormalities.

Casey had heart surgery in 1981, fell into a coma for seven weeks and eventually died in his father's arms.

However, doctors did not recognise that there was links between his possible exposure to Agent Orange, Blue or any other biological toxins to Casey's birth defects.

Daniel considered he was betrayed by the denials of the effects of Agent Orange.

Daniel said he wanted to go to the conference to tell his story and heal the old wounds.-Enditem HeadLines • Senior legislators meet to mull a series of bills • Fight against corruption makes progress, says Party official • Overseas Vietnamese in France informed of developments in homeland • Gia Lai presents houses to poor ethnic minority residents • Lao newspaper hails Viet Nam-China relations More Copyright, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) - 5 Ly Thuong Kiet St., Hoan Kiem Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam Licence No: 599/GP-INTER issued by the Ministry of Culture and Infomation on April 9, 1998 Responsible for contents: VNA Deputy General Director, Mr.

Nguyen Duy ...

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