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   Prostate cancer

   In 2003, a Virginia jury found a family practice residency program guilty of malpractice and liable for $1 million for following national guidelines and using shared decision-making, thereby allowing a patient (subsequently found to have a high PSA and incurable advanced prostate cancer) to decline a screening PSA test, instead of routinely ordering without discussion PSA tests in all men ≥ 50 years of age as four local physicians testified was their practice, and was accepted by the jury as the local standard of care. ... If the cancer has spread beyond the prostate, treatment options significantly change, so most doctors who treat prostate cancer use a variety of nomograms to predict the probability of spread.
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   Cancer

   The work of other individual physicians led to various insights, but when physicians started working together they could make firmer conclusions. ... The use of surgery to treat cancer had poor results due to problems with hygiene.
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   Experimental cancer treatment

   Most oncologists have a belief that a diet alone cannot treat cancer. ... Audio-video Physician Interviews on Cancer Treatment Breakthroughs
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   Chemotherapy

   As a result, many other drugs have been developed to treat cancer, and drug development since then has exploded into a multibillion-dollar industry.
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   Florida Hospital Orlando

   Physicians are utilizing cutting-edge, minimally invasive modalities, like Gamma Knife Radiation Therapy, daVinci Robotic system and Trilogy Radiation Therapy to treat and remove cancer in our patients.
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   The Canon of Medicine

   Ibn Sina advised surgeons to treat cancer in its earliest stages, ensuring the removal of all the diseased tissue. ... In ancient times, Galen as well as Chinese physicians erroneously believed that there was a unique type of pulse for every organ of the body and for every disease.
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   Radiation therapy

   The concept of therapeutic radiation was invented by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen when he discovered that the x-ray was a powerful and effective tool with which to treat cancer. ... Previous to the invention of the CT, physicians and physicists had limited knowledge about the true radiation dosage delivered to both cancerous and healthy tissue.
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   Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis

   Breast Cancer Res Treat 2 (1): 5–73. doi:10.1007/BF01805718. ... Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
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   Cancer bacteria

   He asserted that a vaccine or anti-serum manufactured from his bacterium could be used to treat cancer patients with varying degrees of success . ... In 1931, Cornell University pathologist Elise L’Esperance reported the presence of acid-fast, Tuberculosis-like organisms in Hodgkin's disease, French physician George Mazet implicated a bacterial association with leukemia and also Hodgkin's disease and a number of other physicians or scientists, including the German von Brehmer, the Irish physician W.M. Crofton and EJ Villesquez of France all reported similar cancer bacteria associations.
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    C-Tools 2.0

    C-Tools 2.0 is an innovative Personal Digital Assistant software package that has been developed to help doctors and their staff prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Prostate cancer,
• Cancer,
• Experimental cancer treatment,
• Chemotherapy,
• Florida Hospital Orlando,
• The Canon of Medicine,
• Radiation therapy,
• Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis,
• Cancer bacteria,
• C-Tools 2.0