Tag: cancer

For the 14,400 head and neck cancer patients in the U.S., dry mouth is an unwelcome side effect of radiation therapy, causing difficulty with eating and speaking, and oral infections, among other ...

Surgery is often the first step in treating kidney cancer, and new data from the University of Rochester Medical Center, which contradicts earlier research, questions whether removal of only the ...

A new medical imaging technology dubbed multispectral photoacoustic imaging has demonstrated that it can successfully identify healthy vs. cancerous prostate tissue and could represent a less ...

A new imaging technology that combines ultrasound and laser technologies has been shown to be highly effective in identifying prostate cancer. The system, which was developed by University of ...

When US News & World Report’s 2014 Best Hospitals guidebook hits newsstands today, a record number of six University of Rochester Medical Center specialties will be ranked among the very best in the ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for a joint two-year fellowship ...

A pair of grants from the American Cancer Society will support two University of Rochester Medical Center researchers to improve patient-centered care and communication; and to gain a better ...

Two researchers at the University of Rochester have discovered the chemical that makes naked mole rats cancer-proof. Their research is published this week in the journal Nature.

When the Rochester Melanoma Action Group was looking for a place to invest its first $25,000 seed grant, it found Glynis Scott, M.D., an accomplished skin pathologist at the University of Rochester ...

The James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center has received the 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award by the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer—a ...