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Jan 27th, 2023 - For renal stones < 2 cm, guidelines recommend the use of retrograde intrarenal surgery as a first line treatment option. Many available single use flexible ureteroscopy were found. We aim to compare the effectiveness of two single use flexible ure...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Chronic sun exposure and sunburns are the main preventable causes of skin cancer. Due to the nature of their work, physical education teachers are at high risk for occupational skin cancer. This descriptive, cross-sectional study analyzes primary ...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Cardiac CT angiography is associated with radiation exposure. Different methods of creating CT pictures have been developed to reduce the radiation dose to the subject. The purpose of this research study is to learn whether these new imaging metho...

Jan 26th, 2023 - BACKGROUND Blister fluid has been used to measure cytokine expression, proteomic profiles, and pharmacokinetics in a variety of disease states. Blister fluid inside radiation treatment fields has been shown to have altered expression of cytokines ...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Little is known about the long term health impacts of being exposed to a career in professional football. The primary objective of this study is to assess the relationship between affliction definitions, as subjectively described by participants i...

Aug 5th, 2022 - The European Association of Urology (EAU) has updated its guidelines on clinical best practice in urolithiasis for 2021. We therefore aimed to present a summary of best clinical practice in surgical intervention for patients with upper tract uroli...

Jul 13th, 2020 - Bone health disturbances commonly occur after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) with loss of bone mineral density (BMD) and avascular necrosis (AVN) foremost among them. BMD loss is related to pretransplantation chemotherapy and radiation e...

May 31st, 2020 - To develop a summary of recommendations regarding locoregional management of patients with breast cancer and germline mutations in breast cancer susceptibility genes based on the American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Society for Radiation...

Mar 3rd, 2020 - Invasive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is one of the most common cancers in the white populations, accounting for 20% of all cutaneous malignancies. Factors implicated in cSCC etiopathogenesis include ultraviolet radiation exposure and ...

Apr 11th, 2019 - NCRP Report No. 180, 'Management of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation: Radiation Protection Guidance for the United States (2018)' was developed by Council Committee 1. The report builds and expands upon previous recommendations of NCRP and ICRP, cov...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Cardiac CT angiography is associated with radiation exposure. Different methods of creating CT pictures have been developed to reduce the radiation dose to the subject. The purpose of this research study is to learn whether these new imaging metho...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Study Description: This is a natural history study involving questionnaires, clinical and research evaluations, clinical and research laboratory tests, review of medical records, and cancer surveillance. This is a prospective long-term study of in...

Jan 26th, 2023 - BACKGROUND Blister fluid has been used to measure cytokine expression, proteomic profiles, and pharmacokinetics in a variety of disease states. Blister fluid inside radiation treatment fields has been shown to have altered expression of cytokines ...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Little is known about the long term health impacts of being exposed to a career in professional football. The primary objective of this study is to assess the relationship between affliction definitions, as subjectively described by participants i...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Background: The effectiveness of targeting lesions or a specific area for surgery, angiography, CT-guided, or ultrasound-guided biopsy, or ablation, currently may be limited by the visibility of a target during the procedure. Accurate therapeutic ...

Dec 9th, 2022 - There has been an escalating risk of brain cancer associated with increasing radiation dose to the brain from CT examinations, a cohort study of more than 650,000 children and young adults indicated. Researchers observed a significant dose-respons...

Dec 8th, 2022 - Children and young adults who are exposed to a single CT scan of the head or neck before age 22 years are at significantly increased risk of developing a brain tumor, particularly glioma, after at least 5 years, according to results of the large E...

Nov 29th, 2022 - In human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive, locally advanced oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, an immune checkpoint blockade regimen combined with radiotherapy led to good survival with a reduction in radiation exposure. First-line therapy for HP.

Nov 29th, 2022 - A new collaborative position paper on radiation exposure during pregnancy states that pregnant women can safely work in an ionizing radiation environment if exposure to the fetus does not exceed certain dose thresholds. The position paper aims to ...

Nov 16th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hi. My name is Dr Maria Papaleontiou. I'm one of the 2022 American Thyroid Association (ATA) annual meeting co-chairs. It is my pleasure and honor today to provide some highlights from the recently conc...