On June 27–28, 2011, scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NASA, and academiamet in Bethesda to discuss major lung cancer issues confronting each organization. For NASA, available data suggest that lung cancer is the largest potential cancer risk from space travel for both men and women and quantitative risk assessment information formission planning is needed. In space, the radi...

Gold nanoparticles are emerging as promising agents for cancer therapy and are being investigated as drug carriers, photothermal agents, contrast agents and radiosensitisers. This review introduces the field of nanotechnology with a focus on recent gold nanoparticle research which has led to early-phase clinical trials. In particular, the pre-clinical evidence for gold nanoparticles as sensitis...

background: the term crystallized silica refers to the crystallized form of sio 2 and quartz, the most frequency composition in the earth’s crust that can cause silicosis and lung cancer through occupational exposure and inhalation of its large quantities. methods: occupational exposure of workers in pakdasht, iran, in 2011 was investigated in four different casting processes in small foundries...

background: the metabolically active tumor cells may be characterized by a pronounced adenosine release that regulates the growth and development of the tumor. consequently, the expression pattern of defined receptor subtypes will be an important determinant for specific effects of adenosine on the control of tumor cell growth. in recent studies, the expression profile, signal transduction, mol...

On June 27-28, 2011, scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NASA, and academia met in Bethesda to discuss major lung cancer issues confronting each organization. For NASA, available data suggest that lung cancer is the largest potential cancer risk from space travel for both men and women and quantitative risk assessment information for mission planning is needed. In space, the ra...

radiotherapy plays an essential role in the management of breast cancer. three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3d-crt) is applied based on 3d image information of anatomy of patients. in three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3d-crt) for breast cancer one of the common techniques is tangential technique. in this project, various parameters of tangential and supraclavicular fiel...

Lung cancer is a curable disease if detected early, and its mortality rate decreases with forwarding treatment measures. At first, an easy accurate way to detect by using image processing techniques on the cancer-affected images captured from patients. This paper proposes novel lung detection method. Firstly, adaptive median filter algorithm (AMF) applied preprocess those for improving quality ...

25 Improvement of lung cancer radiotherapy using gold nanoparticles and gamma ray photons with high energy. Najam Abed Askouri AlFarabi Institute for High study ,Holy Najaf, Iraq E-mail:[email protected] Abstract : Since the lung tissue has small cross section so that we can introduce an agent to enhance the local cross section. Among nanomaterials gold nanoparticles (GNPs) has significant ...

Optically stimulated luminescent detectors, which are widely used in radiation protection, offer a number of potential advantages for application in radiation therapy dosimetry. Their introduction into this field has been somewhat hampered by the lack of information on their radiation response in megavoltage beams. Here the response of a commercially available optically stimulated luminescent d...