Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:28:03 +0000
Liver health is becoming an increasing concern throughout the world. Liver health is often severely affected by alcohol and drug abuse and the liver may also be damaged as a side effect of some drugs or treatments like chemotherapy and radiation.
Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:38:03 +0000
This discovery will help in developing new types of drugs, which will definitely be more effective than the currently used chemotherapy.
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:25:48 +0000
A combination of Genentech Inc's cancer drug Rituxan and chemotherapy reduces by 41 percent the risk of death or cancer progression, compared with chemotherapy alone, for patients with a common form of leukemia, the company said on Saturday.
Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:00:53 +0000
As recent developments in the HRT drug scandal continue to reveal (http://www./l), relying on conventional medicine to treat your health is like playing Russian Roulette with your life.
Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:58:01 +0000
Cytotoxic drugs, hormones, antihormones, and biologic agents have become increasingly effective means of treating cancer. Many patients are treated on protocols to provide optimal therapy for refractory or poorly responsive malignancies. Treatment may be inadequate or ineffective because of drug resistance of the tumor cells.
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:55:22 +0000
Chemotherapy is the administration of drugs in order to treat mesothelioma cancer. Most of these drugs circulate in the bloodstream in order to reach cancer cells in the body for the purpose of either killing these cancerous cells or for stopping them from dividing.
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:42:27 +0000
Eleven children have received an excess dosage of chemotherapy drugs at the Women's and Children's Hospital- the second hospital bungle revealed this year.
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:28:55 +0000
Cancer treatments have hit a wall? says chemist Michael J. Sailor of the University of California at San Diego. Today?s chemotherapy drugs leave the body too quickly, and both chemo and radiation kill healthy cells indiscriminately, he explains.
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:46:35 +0000
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Combining two chemotherapy drugs with two targeted therapies was safe and appeared to help patients with advanced lung cancer live longer, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. The.
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:07:56 +0000
Combining two chemotherapy drugs with two targeted therapies was safe and appeared to help patients with advanced lung cancer live longer, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:57:26 +0000
Prostate cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths among men in the United States. Despite previous reports of chemotherapy's ineffectiveness in fighting prostate cancer, a number of recent medical studies are providing some hope with new cancer-fighting drugs.
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:00:25 +0000
Scientists have fitted individual cells with polymer "rucksacks" that could carry drugs or imaging agents to specific parts of the body."Immune system cells can be primed to go to specific places in the body," says Mr Swiston. "We could load them with drugs or chemotherapy agents, and immune cells love to travel to tumours or sites of inflammation"
Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:46:59 +0000
Research from physicians with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York have discovered that the consumption of vitamin C supplements among cancer patients, including those with mesothelioma, may be causing negative effects on a mesothelioma patient by reducing the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs and treatments.
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:41:45 +0000
Chemotherapy is drug treatment which is used to try and kill cancer cells or stop them spreading.
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:25:38 +0000
Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently available drugs, heralding the possibility of a more effective chemotherapy drug with minimal side effects.
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:59:51 +0000
itamin C is an antioxidant, which is a class of molecule that is known to help prevent cancer by removing oxygen-free radicals from the body. However, researchers in the United States have recently discovered that taking a vitamin C supplement while undergoing chemotherapy may actually reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs.
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:41:27 +0000
A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically removed.
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:51:15 +0000
Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently available drugs, heralding the possibility of a more effective chemotherapy drug with minimal side effects.
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:22:31 +0000
A research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically removed.
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:49:32 +0000
Taking vitamin C supplements can make chemotherapy drugs less effective at destroying tumors.
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:51:07 +0000
When used on human cancer cells treated with a form of vitamin C in lab dishes, chemotherapy drugs killed 30 percent to 70 percent fewer tumor cells than usual, the scientists wrote in the journal Cancer Research.
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:37:49 +0000
: ()- Philips is developing an ultrasound-based drug delivery technology that is designed to increase the effectiveness and reduce the side effects of chemotherapy treatment for certain types of cancer.
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:41:41 +0000
Britain's drinking water supplies will be tested for safety amid fears that rivers are contaminated with prescription drugs- Cancer drugs are of particular concern because they dissolve easily in water. The "cytotoxic" drugs, which are used in chemotherapy, are potentially dangerous because they are hard to break down through traditional.
Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:13:32 +0000
Medical gloves are disposable gloves used during medical procedures. Medical gloves help prevent contamination between caregivers and patients. Some are designed to prevent contact with certain chemotherapy drugs. Medical gloves include examination gloves, surgical gloves, and medical gloves for handling chemotherapy agents (chemotherapy gloves).
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:30:48 +0000
Scientists have gained new insight into a mechanism whereby chemotherapy may actually assist the rapid regrowth of tumors after treatment. The research, published by Cell Press in the September issue of the journal Cancer Cell, also helps to explain why a combination of traditional chemotherapy with drugs that block formation of new blood vessels m
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:03:22 +0000
Women with hormone-receptor positive, metastatic breast cancer may take medications for years to help keep their cancer at bay, but when the tumor becomes resistant to anti-hormonal drugs, treatment with chemotherapy becomes the only option. But a study presented at the 2008 ASCO Breast Cancer Symposiummay change this approach. Early data suggests
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:33:34 +0000
Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University (WVU), researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, can prevent the memory loss that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs sometimes induce. The WVU researchers' study has just b
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:30:32 +0000
Perhaps one of the most visible symptoms that an individual has cancer is hair loss. Many patients are very aware and concerned about the loss of their hair. Hair thinning and hair loss is a common side effect of some chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy. Read More @ http://women-
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:25:04 +0000
"Telomerase is an ideal target for chemotherapy because it is active in almost all human tumours, but inactive in most normal cells. That means that a drug that deactivates telomerase would likely work against all cancers, with few side effects."
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:35:49 +0000
Marijuana is effective in treating nausea, anorexia and wasting but John McCain wants anyone that "traffics" cannabis to be executed. Nausea, anorexia, and wasting are common symptoms of many cancers and AIDS. These symptoms are also the common adverse side effects of chemotherapy and other aggressive therapies used to treat those diseases.
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:39:21 +0000
A cheap drug used to treat brittle bones helps halt breast cancer in its tracks according to scientists. When used with a common chemotherapy drug, the tumours all but stopped.
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:57:18 +0000
"In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that in the previous year, the average oncologist had made $253,000 of which 75% was profit on chemotherapy drugs administered in his/her office. Yet, surveys of oncologists show that from 75% to 91% of oncologists would refuse chemotherapy as a treatment for themselves or their fam
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:38:46 +0000
Cisplatin, cisplatinum or cis-diamminedichloridoplatinum(II) (CDDP) is a platinum-based chemotherapy drug used to treat various types of cancers, including sarcomas, some carcinomas (e.g. small cell lung cancer, and ovarian cancer), lymphomas and germ cell tumors. It was the first member of its class.
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:25:22 +0000
In Oregon, the only U.S. state which allows physician-assisted suicide, the state health plan denies a cancer-stricken woman life-extending chemotherapy at $4,000 per month, but gladly approves the $50 drugs for physician-assisted suicide.
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:19:28 +0000
On September 20, 2007, Postrel (former editor of Reason) wrote on her blog, "I have breast cancer and start chemotherapy next Friday. Despite an aggressive type of cancer, my prognosis is good, thanks largely to the monoclonal antibody drug Herceptin. She checks in to her blog today to tell her readers that she is doing well and cancer free.