The phone also allows the user to compare radiation readings with radiation maps available on the web.
Will Japan be able to keep up with manufacturing demands, with radiation and other environmental concerns affecting production?
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When localized to one area of the body, HL is treated with radiation therapy or radiation therapy with chemotherapy.
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Most damning is that even his own tables show that those cancers associated with radiation did not decrease at all.
Immediately after the Big Bang, the Universe was a hot, dense "soup" in which sub atomic particles interacted strongly with radiation.
Aside from the potential health hazards of living in an area contaminated with radiation, domino socioeconomic effects have caused multiple problems in these regions.
The hospital is currently the only one in the South West using the hi-tech mask with radiation treatment known as volumetrically modulated arc therapy (VMAT).
"When we think about Chernobyl, most people think about the medical consequences of living with radiation, " said Kathy Ryan, a spokesperson for Chernobyl Children's International (CCI).
But these areas are still riddled with radiation hot spots, including schools and public parks, which will need to be cleaned before public confidence is restored.
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It may be difficult to decide whether those patients should receive chemotherapy or Erbitux with radiation--especially since the chemotherapy may be cheaper, but with more severe side effects.
They split any colony that seemed to be healthy into two and persuaded a firm that usually sterilizes contact-lens solution to blast several truckloads of beekeeping equipment with radiation.
Kaltbaum is also buying Varian Medical Systems (nyse: VAR - news - people ), a company that makes X-ray tubes and systems for treating cancer with radiation.
In one patient whose cancer spread on crizotinib, doctors were able to treat the brain tumor with radiation while the rest of the tumors remained under control with the drug.
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It goes without saying that the loss of human life due to the tsunami and earthquake and the potential for horrendous genetic defects and cancers associated with radiation are extremely frightening.
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Ninety percent of patients with early-stage breast cancer can be cured when treated only with radiation and surgery, but another 3% also require chemotherapy to stop the cancer from spreading elsewhere.
The next big trial results for Erbitux are expected next spring, when ImClone is likely to release results of a big phase-3 trial combining Erbitux with radiation in treating head and neck cancer.
In 1987, a scrap-scavenger in Brazil unwittingly cut up a canister containing cesium powder which he had stolen from an abandoned clinic: the resulting contamination left several people dead and 28 with radiation burns.
An earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan early in the year rocked the nuclear community after the Fukushima Daiichi plant, operated by Tepco, suffered substantial damage to various reactors and some partial meltdowns, with radiation leakage.
One of the key technologies that is needed is a means to recycle water from astronauts back into a drinkable form, along with radiation shielding and developing ways of working and living in space for prolonged periods.
Bomb-sniffing dogs and police equipped with radiation-detecting devices will patrol the Long Island Marathon, and the 20, 000 or so finish-line spectators will be limited to carrying small bags such as purses and camera cases, said Inspector Kenneth Lack, a spokesman for the Nassau County Police.
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Even in the precancerous stage, called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) when abnormal cells are confined to a milk duct, physicians almost always advise women to have a lumpectomy or mastectomy along with radiation, because about 20% of the 65, 000 cases of DCIS found every year in the U.S. become invasive cancer.
Throw in the Price-Anderson Act, the huge liability of working with radiation, beryllium and asbestos, the extensive training requirements, safety issues, QA audit requirements, and the host of accountants, lawyers and HR people needed to be a prime to DOE, and you can imagine that few small businesses could even submit a proposal to be a prime contractor to the Department of Energy.
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Integrated Medical treats far fewer patients with cheaper radiation seeds than with IMRT because seeds cause more side effects, Dr. Kapoor said.
The candidate should be able to design antennas suitable for wireless handheld devices with excellent radiation performance, including TRP, TIS, SAR, and EMC.
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The same technique could eventually work for human cancers, especially those that are treated with abdominal radiation therapy such as gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and gynaecological tumours.
To deal with this, the Living Machine often includes components at the end of the system that sterilize the water with ultraviolet radiation, ozone or chlorine.
There were many aspects of a real mission that could not be simulated in a Moscow suburb, of course - such as weightlessness and the dangers associated with space radiation.
Recently, a number of groups, including my employer, the American Cancer Society, have also recommended considering virtual colonoscopy, which involves the same bowel preparation and a CT scan with some radiation exposure.
The NRA on Wednesday listed eight problems that have occurred at Fukushima Daiichi since March 18, including two power outages and malfunctions with two radiation monitors, and said the agency would strengthen oversight of Tepco to make sure it was working to improve the reliability of the plant's equipment.
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