Medications
IPF drug fails in new trial
A new study has demonstrated no significant benefit of taking the drug bosentan for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
Apr 8, 2011
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News tagged with surgical biopsy
Surgery
New robotic platform offers diagnosis and removal of lung cancer during single surgery
UC Davis Health physicians have performed the first single-anesthesia diagnosis to treatment of lung cancer using a fully robotic approach in the UC Health System.
May 17, 2022
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Surgery
Cryobiopsy of the lung promises a high degree of safety for patients
For the first time, the high safety and low mortality of a still novel, simpler procedure for lung biopsies has also been shown in a European context. The so-called transbronchial cryobiopsy was performed in 75 patients in ...
Mar 4, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Endosonography followed by surgical staging improves quality of life, according to ASTER study
Patients who underwent endoscopic testing prior to surgery for lung cancer had significantly better quality of life at the end of the staging process, with no significant difference in costs between the two strategies, according ...
Jul 7, 2011
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Radiology & Imaging
Architectural distortion on digital breast tomosynthesis with nonmalignant pathology
According to an article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), imaging surveillance is a management alternative for architectural distortion on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) yielding radial scar without atypia ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Previously deployed military personnel show retained dust in lungs
Military personnel who were deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq may have been exposed to significant amounts of dust and other respiratory hazards, leading to persistent respiratory symptoms and diseases like asthma and bronchiolitis. ...
Oct 7, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
HRCT scans can identify deadly lung disease
People who have suspected idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) without typical patterns on high resolution computed tomography scans could in future be spared the substantial risks of lung biopsy and be given a confident diagnosis ...
Feb 17, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
New research shows breast cancer treatment in patients over age 70 can be safely reduced
Oncologists faced with treating older women with breast cancer often must decide if the treatment may be more detrimental than the cancer. A study published today in JAMA Network Open by researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer ...
Apr 15, 2021
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Surgery
More than one-third of Texas women still receive unnecessary breast biopsy surgery
Many women in Texas who are found to have an abnormality on routine mammogram or discover a lump in one of their breasts end up having an old-fashioned surgical biopsy to find out whether the breast abnormality is malignant. ...
May 17, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
New guidelines issued for biopsy use in melanoma patients
(HealthDay) -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy -- a minimally invasive surgical technique that lets doctors see whether cancer has spread -- should be performed on patients with melanoma tumors of intermediate thickness and may ...
Jul 9, 2012
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