ExacTrac Infrared Monitoring device is the exciting new innovation by BrainLAB which is an adjunct tool to existent therapy machines to monitor patient positions during radiation therapy sessions. CBCT (Cone Beam CT) is the commonly employed device in several cancer care facilities for patient set-up; but is incapable of tracking the patient’s positioning alterations which could take place at the time of radiotherapy. The ExacTrac Infrared Monitoring device could be mounted on the ceiling and helps in tracking a patient’s positions all through therapy delivery thus offering doctors greater self-confidence for targeted radiation therapy. An infinitesimal budge from the preliminary patient set-up could have a damaging effect on healthy tissues adjoining the tumor. The ExacTrac technology  [...]

Mobile phone users have a fivefold greater likelihood of developing brain tumors as compared to people using land lines, researchers have cautioned. Researchers have stated that several earlier studies probing cell phone safety considerably undervalued the risk of cancer developing and that brain tumor formation is commonly found on that side of a person’s head where the cell phone had been held against as compared to the other side. Following re-analysis of previous researches, the study authors reached a conclusion that risk of developing such tumors would lay in-between ten to five hundred percent more with protracted cell phone usage. Helming the study, Lloyd Morgan cautioned that the study outcomes elevated the likelihood of a brain tumor epidemic until individuals alter their patterns  [...]

Cowden syndrome (CS) is an atypical heritable condition typified by several non-cancerous nodules known as hamartomas. Cowden syndrome sufferers additionally are at heightened risk of particular forms of cancer. CS is believed to be rare, though it is possibly under-detected. It is approximated that CS affects 1 in every two lakh people. CS is typified by increased chances of developing both non-cancerous and cancerous tumors inflicting breast, thyroid and endometrial lining of the uterus. Cowden syndrome symptoms Key signs and symptoms of CS are explicated below: Trichilemmomas – skin tags. Papillomatous papules. Macrocephaly – more than average head circumference or enlarged head. Breast fibrocystic disease – A condition typified by existence of malignant breast tissues. Greater risk  [...]

Gestational Trophoblastic tumours or GTTs generally originate in the womb that is diverse from womb cancers. Womb cancers grow from the cells that constitute the womb, while a gestational trophoblastic tumor develops from tissues which form the womb and are components of the usual foetal development during the gestational or pregnancy phase. Generally subsequent to fertilization of the egg by the sperm, novel cells start developing that lead to the formation of an embryo. With the continual growth of the embryo, the cells within it begin specialising with some of them forming the foetus and rest of them forming the placenta. The foremost cell layer which forms the placenta is known as the trophoblast. Those women having GTT have anomalous cell growth and development of the tissues forming the  [...]