Radiology To Cure Cancer

It's new. And this should significantly improve patient comfort. A technique to treat microwave cancerous tumors located in the liver, kidneys, lungs or bones is applied for five months by the hospital in Pau.It completes a very interesting method used for ten years radio frequency.

This process involves placing an electrode into a tumor, which was destroyed by causing tissue heating. But it has a drawback. Because it does not treat tumors larger than three centimeters, or those located near blood vessels.

Moreover, because of where they are placed, some tumors can not be surgically removed from. Which usually means resorting to chemical processes.

A needle and a screen

The new technique developed in Italy, and authorized in France since 2010, has overcome these difficulties, "said Christophe Gautier, head of the hospital. It involves introducing into the tumor a special needle of 1.5 mm thick. The radiologist who performs this procedure has to do a screen which allows ultrasound to check the smooth running of things.

The needle is connected to a generator. The microwaves that distributes its end can destroy the tumor necrosis by heat. No burning occurs provided at the patient's skin. The result of ablation, which can last about ten minutes, the scanner is controlled.

The process can be performed on a person under general anesthesia or in part. It has several advantages.
It not only necrosis of the tumor more rapidly and more important. But it is also less "invasive," said Olivier Bonnefoy, the interventional radiologist who is responsible for the implementation of this new technique in Pau.

If no complications arise, a patient treated in this way can in fact leave his home the next day, having a simple patch affixed to the location of the skin where the needle was inserted. This is not the case for surgery, which usually requires several days of hospitalization. Moreover, it says in the hospital, the complication rate remains low.

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Mammography not just for breast cancer

Mammography is the examination that all women over the 'door' are familiar. But not only serves to flush out a possible breast cancer, could also be used to identify women at increased risk of heart attack and stroke: it shows a study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, conducted in the United States in 1500 postmenopausal ladies.

Peter Schnatz, an American cardiologist in Hartford, Connecticut, who has been studying the calcification of the mammary artery as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, followed for 5 years hundreds of volunteers who, in 2004, had undergone a mammography.

After two, four and five years women have responded to questionnaires specific to cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol, menopause, physical activity) and reported in the meantime had developed cardiovascular disease, from stroke, to 'infarction, angina.

Its purpose was to determine whether mammography could be used as a tool for estimating the risk of cardiovascular disease, as it can see the small calcium deposits in breast arteries, according to many, may be indicative of an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes .

Women whose mammograms reveal the presence of calcifications were on average older than the other (69 years compared with 54 at the time of study entry) and, in fact, occur more often than other cardiovascular diseases: more than 20 percent of women mammary arteries 'dirty' has developed, over the 5 years, angina, heart attack or stroke, compared to only 5 percent of women whose mammograms had not detected accumulation of calcium.

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Donna Breast Cancer Detection

The "donna" is designed especially for women from 50 a possible breast cancer at an early stage and thus to ensure a less burdensome treatment and better prognosis. Because breast cancer in women under 70, the most common cancer.

In the health care of the Canton takes "donna" an important place. St.Gallen is the first canton in German-speaking Switzerland who, in the national project for the early detection of breast cancer, a quality-controlled mammography screening program. In collaboration with the Cancer League St. Gallen-Appenzell this screening was implemented at the highest level of quality.

Smaller than a cherry pit

The radiologist Dr. David Matt explained that with today's devices already tumors the size of a cherry stone and can be detected smaller. The interpretation of mammography images, however, requires experience and experience again. And as to be sure, would come two completely independent reviewers to the same result. If they are not in agreement, a third expert will attend. Moreover, additional findings were in critical ultrasound and possibly arranged tissue samples. "Fortunately, we now 9 out of 10 women studied released no findings."

Colon Cancer Increase As Age

As people age, the risk for colon cancer also increases. For most people, it is best to begin regular screenings for colon cancer at age 50 and colonoscopy is one of the recommended methods of detection. The frequency with which her ​​husband will require a colonoscopy depends on the results of the first test.

Colon cancer is common. According to the National Cancer Institute, are diagnosed each year more than 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer in the United States and of those cases, about 93 percent are people over 50 years. In reality, age is one of the most important risk factors for colon cancer.

However, there are other risk factors. The family history of colon cancer, especially of a relative of first degree of consanguinity (parents or children) diagnosed with the disease, greatly enhances the risk. Suffering chronic inflammation of the colon for several years, as in the case of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, also increases the likelihood of developing colon cancer.

Finally, the personal history of adenomatous polyps (a specific type of polyp in the colon) also increases the likelihood of a person to develop colon cancer.

Apart from these important risk factors, others may increase the risk for colon cancer and among them are smoking, drinking moderate to heavy alcohol, obesity and sedentary lifestyle.

Nuclear Radiation Cause Cancer

The Japanese Nuclear Safety Agency ruled Monday a Chernobyl-type accident in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, according to what the Minister of National Strategy, quoted by Jiji Press.

"There is absolutely no possibility of a Chernobyl," said Koichiro Genba members of the ruling party, citing the opinion of the Agency for Nuclear and Industrial Safety.

The cooling sytems reactors number 1 and number 3 of the Central North-east, in the heart of the area affected by the earthquake are experiencing serious problems since the disaster.

Saturday, an explosion followed by a radiation leak at reactor number one sowed panic. A series of measures have been taken, including the distribution of iodine tablets to people living near the plant to reduce the risk of cancer associated with radiation.

Then, an explosion occurred on Sunday at reactor number 3. "The building of the reactor exploded, but the safety cabinet was not damaged. The control room of Unit 3 is operational, "said Monday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a statement.

The IAEA also announced Sunday that the levels of radioactivity at the Onagawa nuclear plant in the Japanese island of Honshu, had returned to normal. The Japanese authorities have also managed to cool down the two reactors affected.
The winds pushed Monday radioactive fumes from the explosions to the north-east, or away from Tokyo.