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Bumping into this article reminded me of My Top 10 Cancer Beaters.
After all, living and eating healthy all boils down to a strong or robust immune system that lessens our risk of having major diseases and of course, cancer.
Indeed, the link between the increasingly common lifestyle factors, the immune system and cancer, with the ultimate […]
Link love theme day is over…BUT… In lieu of the upcoming Medical Grand Rounds, I bumped into a blog of a medical student in the Carribean and was really amazed by the honest-and-funny presentation of his medical school insights: The Rumors Were True.
Apparently the author has worked on a hospital’s Terminal Oncology - I guess […]
According to research findings presented this weekend at the Society of Integrative Oncology’s Third International Conference in Boston, cancer patients can get the vital nutritional benefits from taking antioxidants without the risk of interfering with radiation treatment.
The said study, entitled: “Effect of Concomitant Naturopathic Therapies on Clinical Tumor Response to External Beam Radiation Therapy for […]
Finding out what is just right – The Goldilocks Principle – is pretty much the ruling action for many biological processes like in the body’s concentration of growth factors:
Too much of a signaling protein called insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) may fan the flames of cancer, while too little of the protein may cause short stature, […]
If you were diagnosed with a certain cancer and told that it’s inoperable and that your only option for treatment is chemotherapy, would you agree to undergo such an ordeal?
We all know that chemotherapy is debilitating in itself and how a patient reacts to it varies:
…on some occasions, chemotherapy can cause permanent changes or damage to […]
DiagnoCure’s PCA3 gene is believed to be a more precise prostate cancer indicator than the current diagnostic tests.
Now a new test – the Gen-Probe PCA3 test - based on the PCA3 technology has received a CE Mark certification which would allow commercialization of the test in Europe.
The Gen-Probe PCA3 test measures the expression of the […]
Administering less radiation than usual is just as effective against a benign but potential devastating brain tumor called an acoustic schwannoma and might save more of the patient’s hearing.
Such were the recent findings of radiation oncologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
Acoustic schwannoma is a […]
To evaluate the effectiveness of its Brain Fitness Program on “chemo brain”, Posit Science is conducting a study on breast cancer patients.
Posit Science’s Brain Fitness Program is a series of computer- based exercises designed to reverse losses in brain function, including memory loss and to improve concentration.
“Chemo brain” results in a deficit in cognitive function […]
According to a study presented November 5, 2006, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology’s 48th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia:
Prostate cancer patients treated with either radiation or surgery who use hormone therapy for longer than six months do not survive any longer than patients who use the treatment for a shorter amount of […]
The traditional Pap smear is still the best initial cervical cancer screening tool for younger women.
A new large Danish study however, found that a test for human papillomavirus (HPV) is a much more effective way of screening for potential cancer in older women (age 40 and above).
The researchers specifically found that the absolute risk of […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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