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.
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.
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:36:08 +0000
Mesothelioma treatment options almost always include chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is recommended by mesothelioma doctors to attempt to stunt or destroy the mesothelioma cells. This is usefull article
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:33:35 +0000
Researchers have identified 26 genes that are mutated in the people who develop the most common form of lung cancer, adenocarcinoma. To find these genes, researchers compared samples of lung cancer tissue to non-cancerous tissue that was donated by 188 patients. These findings will help to develop more effective chemotherapy drugs.
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:57:50 +0000
The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells.
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:42:19 +0000
A multi-institutional study led by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has found that using chemotherapy alone and delaying or avoiding cranial radiation altogether can be effective in treating pediatric patients with unresectable or progressive low-grade glioma. The study was presented Sunday at the 40th annual Inte
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:39 +0000
A study has concluded that one dose of chemotherapy is the best way to cure testicular cancer in many patients.
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:12:08 +0000
When you or someone you love is faced with a cancer diagnosis, life can become overwhelming. What do you do? How do you cope? How do I get into a mindset to fight it as best I can? As a home infusion nurse who works with chemotherapy patients daily, I have seen the best and worst ways to focus your attention in the face of a cancer diagnosis.
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:09:50 +0000
Past exposure to the hepatitis B virus (HBV) might be associated with the development of pancreatic cancer, researchers report. In addition, there is a potential for HBV to be reactivated when patients undergo chemotherapy treatment.
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:26:34 +0000
Acupuncture is one of the traditional chinese medication which is more than 2000 years old. It is based on Chinese theories of energy flow through the body, or qi, and has been scientifically shown to work to help patients with nausea caused by anesthetics during surgery or caused by chemotherapy or to relieve dental pain.
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:25:42 +0000
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- A new animal study suggests that antioxidant therapy may prevent the memory and attention problems that plague many cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:28:22 +0000
MIT cell findings could predict individuals' responses MIT researchers have shown that cells from different people don't all react the same way when exposed to the same DNA-damaging agent- a finding that could help clinicians predict how patients will respond to chemotherapy.
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:23:50 +0000
Breast cancer patients who have undergone mastectomy are often advised by their oncologists to undergo chemotherapy as well.
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).
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
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:01:23 +0000
Clinical cancer patients after chemotherapy often nausea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Doctors generally will be temporary with metoclopramide ease symptoms.
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-
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:30:05 +0000
While receiving chemotherapy, you need to plan ahead before you travel. It is important to take the necessary precautions. Below is a list of instructions to follow.
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:08:42 +0000
Emotional recovery is delayed in patients with breast cancer who receive?taxane-based? chemotherapy
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:49:48 +0000
For all the life-saving miracles unfolding each day at modern hospitals-from cancer chemotherapy to heart bypass surgery-they are also filled with danger. Managing these risks often comes down to persistent attention to detail-by caregivers, patients and their advocates. Here are some of the biggest risks, and how to head them off.
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:48:21 +0000
What does Life Mel do? The honey- which is produced by Holywell Health- supposedly targets neutropenia, a side-effect of chemotherapy in which the level of a particular class of white blood cells drops, leaving the patient open to infection. But this dangerous side-effect of chemotherapy could disappear, the company claims.
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:21:59 +0000
"A recent interview with deputy drug czar Scott Burns by the Arcata Eye, a Northern California newspaper, provides some insight into the quality of thought underlying the war on drugs. Asked about "chemotherapy patients who would tell you that [marijuana] is the only thing that suppresses their nausea and gives them an appetite"-Jacob Sullum
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:01:37 +0000
Researchers found South African bottled water brands had a very limited shelf-life. Keeping them longer than a few days or weeks was likely to produce water with an unpleasant taste and smell and "high bacteriological counts that can affect the immuno-compromised," including chemotherapy and AIDS patients, organ-transplant recipients and infants.
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:10:54 +0000
Early Stage Lung Cancer and ChemotherapyDuke University Medical Center scientists have developed the first-ever genomic test to
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:02:07 +0000
Chemotherapy Side EffectsYoung breast cancer patients who receive chemotherapy may have a higher number of serious side effects than reported in clinical trials.
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:55:37 +0000
Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer PatientsResearchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that breast cancer patients 63 years of age or younger may experience more chemotherapy
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:43:20 +0000
Patients are being recruited for a clinical trial of a new targeted radiation and chemotherapy protocol for pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung?s lining that?s almost always caused by exposure to rently, the standard treatment is to remove the affected lung.
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:04:35 +0000
Scientists are hailing a new drug to treat aggressive prostate cancer as potentially the most significant advance in the field for 70 raterone could potentially treat up to 80% of patients with a deadly form of the disease resistant to currently available chemotherapy, they say.The drug works by blocking the hormones.
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:50:58 +0000
Chemotherapy is one of the important means to treat lung cancer. Unfortunately chemotherapy will also injure normal cells while killing cancer cells. Gastrointestinal reaction is the most common chemotherapy drug reactions, including nausea, vomit, diarrhoea, abdominal distension, etc, most patients feel unwell.
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:59:55 +0000
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:57:06 +0000
Any cancer patient knows that chemotherapy means two things: a potential cure for cancer and side effects. Thankfully, there are several strategies to help minimize these adverse effects and get you back on your feet.
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:53:57 +0000
In 2003, Congress passed the Medicare Modernization Act. Under this bill, doctors receive less compensation for giving patients chemotherapy. Following the passage of the Act, some officials were concerned that the new legislation would reduce the availability and quality of chemotherapy.
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:45:20 +0000
Treatment for mesothelioma is dependent on where the cancer is located, how long it has been growing and patients general health. Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy are the most common treatments, often being combined if doctors believe it will best benefit the patient.
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:37:54 +0000
Aranesp, Epogen, and Procrit are in a class of drugs called erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs). These drugs are mostly used to treat anemia in patients with chronic kidney failure and in patients with cancer whose anemia is caused by chemotherapy. But Chicago personal injury attorneys are trying to get the word out about recent studies that p
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:48:26 +0000
Chemotherapy is often recommended for ovarian cancer patients after surgery. This article will offer some information about how these therapies work.
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:54:14 +0000
Treatment cancer such foul disease, the chemotherapy medicine might be considered as?the potent drug? the rank?For fear that because of like this, its untoward effect is letting many people evade is inferior to. The treatment chemotherapy responded that in the daily life, how the patient and the family member should do?
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:25:03 +0000
Legislation that cut fees doctors receive for giving chemotherapy to Medicare patients has not affected care so far, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:49:59 +0000
Drug treatment which stops a woman's periods may protect against the effects of chemotherapy, a study suggests.
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:04:53 +0000
A new technique means that more women made infertile by cancer treatment may in future be given the chance to have a en can have their eggs collected and stored before undergoing chemotherapy or radiation currently the stimulation of ovaries to produce eggs has to be done at the start of a woman's menstrual cycle.D