Those with symptoms are regarded as higher risk, and more likely to benefit from invasive treatment.
Diagnosis is more accurate, patients need to spend less time in hospital, and new medical equipment allows less invasive treatment.
He added that if men could improve their fertility through avoiding hot baths, couples may be able to avoid IVF or choose less invasive treatment.
Nearly three years into the research, the rate of strokes and death was more than three times higher among participants who had received surgery, radiation or other invasive treatment than among patients given medication for headaches and other symptoms.
And it involved an invasive surgical treatment that would likely be used only in extreme cases.
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To take an example from one of our recent editorials, Medicare today refuses to reimburse for the new, less invasive preventive treatment known as a virtual colonoscopy, but such private insurers as Cigna and United Healthcare do.
Richard Randall pocketed enough money to retire before the age of 40 by taking public a little company called Target Therapeutics, a developer of less-invasive devices for treatment of aneurysms and stroke.
But it will also mean that doctors can catch things earlier, so treatment may be less invasive and less expensive.
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Early detection would make treatment easier, less invasive and more effective.
They saw that this non-invasive procedure had the potential to revolutionize cancer treatment as a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy.
When doable, it is the favored treatment versus coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) as it is less invasive.
The day after Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and Edwards, his running mate, conceded the election to George W. Bush, Edwards announced that his wife had invasive ductal cancer, the most common type of breast cancer, and would undergo treatment.
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