15 feb 2011 - Electrochemotherapy on JAMA

IGEA - Redazione — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:23:02 +0000

A compelling editorial on electrochemotherapy ["Electric Pulses Help With Chemotherapy, May Open New Paths for Other Agents", Tracy Hampton, PhD. JAMA, February 9, 2011 - Vol 305, No. 6, 549-551] has been recently published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). JAMA is a prestigious medical and scientific journal well known by doctors worldwide.

SIOT, 1-5 October 2011

Staff — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:27:45 +0000

From 1st to 5th October 2011, IGEA will be present at the 96th National Conference of the Società Italiana di Ortopedia e Traumatologia (the Italian Orthopaedics and Trauma Medicine Society) to be held at the Palacongressi in Rimini.

The central theme of the event will be biotechnologies applied to trauma medicine, with a specific focus on materials and coatings in orthopaedics.

27 Jan 2011 - EndoVe: New Medical Device to Target Cancer Tumours

Staff — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:39:35 +0000

The results of the first clinical trial of a new endoscopic device, developed at the Cork Cancer Research Centre in UCC, have been revealed October 28, 2010 at a seminar in Dublin. The device allows chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered in a localised way for colorectal tumours, including currently inoperable ones.

"The first clinical trial of our patented device, called EndoVe, involving a patient with inoperable colorectal cancer has been successful in eliminating the tumour," says Dr. Declan Soden, Cork Cancer Research Centre.