| 'Sisterhood' celebrates triumph, struggles with breast cancer
In a massive ballroom with chandeliers and gold-lined ceilings, she dined on herb-roasted chicken, sauteed vegetables and mashed new potatoes. She took home a gift bag stuffed with Estee Lauder perfume, a Rachael Ray cookbook, Chapstick and a box of granola bars. .
New Adjuvant Treatments For Breast Cancer Prove Cost-effective
Science Daily New adjuvant treatments for breast cancer are cost-effective at improving survival, according to two new studies. Published inthe journal CANCER, the two studies looked at the cost-effectiveness of different drugs for the management of adjuvant therapies for early breast cancer. .
Tomo partners in new cancer therapy
A day after releasing its first financial results as a public company, Madison-based TomoTherapy today announced that it was entering a new cancer treatment area through a collaboration with scientists at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. TomoTherapy said it will fund continued development of a "revolutionary" accelerator that it expects will form the basis of a compact, low-cost proton therapy system. The system, which uses dielectric wall accelerator (DWA) technology, stems from defense-related research and, with further development, has the potential to bring proton therapy into the medical mainstream, the firm said. Proton beams are acknowledged to be fundamentally superior to X-rays for radiation therapy but the high cost has prevented it from being widely used in cancer treatment.
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