Archive for January, 2008
Prostate Seed Implants A Promising Treatment For Prostate Cancer
31 January 2008Prostate brachytherapy (pronounced bray-kee-ther-uh-pee), the implantation of radioactive seeds into the prostate gland, is one of the standard methods of successfully treating prostate cancer. The tiny radioactive seeds are smaller than grains of rice.
A prostate seed implant may be the on…
The Lung Cancer Epidemic
31 January 2008Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the American population and the western world. Lung cancer use to be the leading cause of cancer deaths in American men only, but since 1988, women have caught up with men and since then lung cancer is leading cause of cancer deaths in women as …
Shifting Paradigms In Hormonal Therapy Of Breast Cancer
31 January 2008Until recently tamoxifen occupied the central stage in adjuvant (post operative) hormonal treatment of breast cancer. Tamoxifen has been the unchallenged hormonal therapy of choice for adjuvant treatment of early stage breast cancer for over two decades.
Things have changed now. A new group…