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It looks like Patrick Swayze is fighting a good fight with his pancreatic cancer — which is really great news to hear.
All over the news are the following words this weekend by Patrick Swayze that is hopeful:
“…a miracle, dude.”
I don’t know why. I am juicing every day along with other treatments and all I can […]
According to scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), in collaboration with Italian researchers, fasting (for 48 hours) before receiving chemotherapy could help limit the treatment’s toxic effects to cancer cells—and spare healthy ones.
Starving healthy cells helps to differentiate them from tumor cells, a trick that could make cancer treatments more effective.
The new finding […]
Speaking of breast cancer…
Previously popular treatments – i.e. big-dose chemotherapy – apparently are of no help against breast cancer.
Such were the findings recently reported by a group of Houston researchers.
A grueling and controversial breast cancer treatment that was popular in the late 1980s and the 1990s does not extend the lives of patients in advanced […]
One side effect of chemotherapy is loss of hair. For men, generally no problem because men are often sexier with shaved head or less hair. However, for women, our hair is our crowning glory.
Although I know one person in this world (my best friend) who was quite comfortable wearing a shaved head at one time […]
In women with operable HER-2 positive breast cancer, the combination treatment of the antibody trastuzumab and chemotherapy has been found to improve survival.
Such were the findings of the meta-analysis of 5 trials involving more than 13,000 women with operable breast cancer, recently reported at the ESMO Conference Lugano by Issa Dahabreh from University of Athens:
The […]
According to a new systematic review, when chemotherapy is given to women with operable breast cancer before having the surgery (not after), it helps oncologists to pin down the best treatment regimen and can reduce the extent of surgery.
Preoperative chemotherapy reduced chemo-related infections by 4 percent and the need for mastectomies by 17 percent when […]
In patients with stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer, radiation may be a better option than surgery after an initial chemotherapy treatment – according to a randomized controlled trial conducted by Jan van Meerbeeck, M.D., Ph.D., of the University Hospital of Ghent in Belgium, and colleagues from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer […]
Giving patients both radiation and chemotherapy after completely removing invasive pancreatic cancer may improve overall survival rates, according to researchers from Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.
Such finding has been reported by Michele Corsini, M.D., a radiation oncology resident in Rochester and the study’s lead author, at the recent 2007 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
in patients who received concurrent […]
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 […]
U.S. researchers have recently reported that in children with brain tumors called medulloblastomas, a highly targeted treatment that relies on the patient’s own stem cells led to improved outcomes: from 30-40% chance of surviving to five years to 70-80%.
Chemotherapy usually lasts for 12 months. In this new treatment regimen, radiation therapy is tailored to the […]
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