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Safer treatment for thyroid cancer

By John McCulloch @ MaRS
June 23, 2009
 
Radiation therapy for thyroid cancer

Less radiation for thyroid cancer

Researchers from Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital have presented data at the ENDO 2009 Symposium (in Washington DC) indicating that lower doses of chemotherapy are just as effective as larger doses in adjuvant treatment of thyroid cancer.

Dr. Kumar and colleagues were able to reduce the radiation dose by 70% and maintain the same treatment effect as the standard higher dose.

This innovative study helps establish a safer treatment for thyroid cancer – a disease that has shown increasing incidence over the last two decades.  Thyroid cancer occurs approximately three times more frequently in men than women.

Another example of great research being done in Toronto!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alan-Severe/100001615687681 Alan Severe

    nice post

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alan-Severe/100001615687681 Alan Severe

    I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism a few months ago. Mine started over the summer, I felt myself working, walking, and moving slower each day. It felt like I was always dragging my foot everywhere i went. Worse, my hair was falling out, and I was very irritable. I also slept a lot. Good thing my aunt told me to take some porcine thyroid. It helped reverse everything. Now i can move faster and my hair has stopped falling.

  • http://www.ecancerchemotherapy.com/chemotherapy-success-rates.html Success rate of chemotherapy

    I think this treatment is too much costly.

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John McCulloch @ MaRS

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