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A new national clinical study will help evaluate the best manner in which to give patients radiation and chemotherapy to treat locally advanced, non-small cell lung cancer.

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The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) is now examining, by a randomized clinical trial, the effectiveness of adding Casodex, a hormonal therapy agent, to radiation for prostate cancer patients with rising PSA Casodex (bicalutamide) is a new nonsteroidal anti-androgen.

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A new Radiation Therapy Oncology Group study will determine if the drug thalidomide combined with radiation therapy will lengthen the survival time and time of recurrence in adults with glioblastoma multiforme, the most malignant brain tumor.

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A cooperative national clinical trial has produced the first major treatment advance in years for small-cell lung cancer. The study, which was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, used two treatments of radiation daily, combined with chemotherapy, compared to the usual practice of delivering one dose a day to the cancer.

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(RTOG) clinical study has concluded that adding two chemotherapy agents to radiation therapy significantly improves the survival rate of women treated for locally advanced cervical cancer.

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Contrast-enhanced Helical Computed Tomography (CT), a new technology, is 99% accurate in diagnosing injuries to the aorta in trauma patients. Helical CT is fast, accurate, less expensive and easier for the patient, a researecher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston reported at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in New Orleans.

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A special radiological nuclear medicine scan has shown great potential for detecting certain breast cancers that are difficult to detect through standard mammography, researchers at St. Vincent's and St. Anne's Hospitals, Dublin, Ireland, reported at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in New Orleans.

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been shown to be effective in detecting and staging invasive lobular breast cancer, a form of breast cancer that historically has been difficult to diagnose accurately by mammography or ultrasound, researchers at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, reported at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in New Orleans.

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Some physicians need to be better educated about the relative risks and usefulness of various tests that are used to diagnose the potentially life-threatening pulmonary embolism--a blood clot in the lung, researchers at Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, reported at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in New Orleans.

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PET (positron emission tomography) imaging can accurately stage early non-small cell lung cancer and demonstrate microscopic metastases (spread) that CT (computed tomography) may miss, Duke University Medical Center researchers reported at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in New Orleans.