News tagged with chemo patients
Study: Ginger capsules ease chemotherapy nausea
Ginger, long used as a folk remedy for soothing tummyaches, helped tame one of the most dreaded side effects of cancer treatment - nausea from chemotherapy, the first large study to test the herb for this has found.
May 14, 2009 |
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New chemo regimen helps children with neuroblastoma
A new high-dose chemotherapy regimen has been shown to improve survival of children with high-risk neuroblastoma, a common pediatric cancer, according to a European clinical trial published Sunday.
Jun 06, 2011 |
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30 years after first AIDS cases, hope for a cure
(AP) -- Sunday marks 30 years since the first AIDS cases were reported in the United States. And this anniversary brings fresh hope for something many had come to think was impossible: finding a cure.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 03, 2011 |
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Hospitals hunt substitutes as drug shortages rise
(AP) -- A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses - from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiac arrest - has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to avoid patient harm, and sometimes even delaying treatment.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 30, 2011 |
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Nanodiamonds take big step toward battling cancer
Chemotherapy drug resistance contributes to treatment failure in more than 90 percent of metastatic cancers. Overcoming this hurdle would significantly improve cancer survival rates.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Doctors aim to save fertility of kids with cancer
(AP) -- The treatment beating back 9-year-old Dylan Hanlon's cancer may also be destroying his chances of fathering his own children when he grows up.
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Researchers uncovering how ovarian cancer resists chemotherapy
York University researchers have zeroed in on a genetic process that may allow ovarian cancer to resist chemotherapy.
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Study shows chemoradiotherapy prior to surgery improves survival
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that patients with node negative T3 and T4 non-small lung cancer who underwent chemotherapy before surgery had more than three times the survival rate ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Erlotinib effective and with fewer side-effects after first-line treatment
The targeted cancer drug erlotinib has comparable efficacy to chemotherapy, and is better tolerated, in hard-to-treat cases where a patient's cancer has progressed quickly after treatment with first-line therapy, the results ...
Feb 26, 2011 |
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New approach to adding study drug to chemo for melanoma treatment
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have just completed a clinical trial that showed it is possible to study a new combination of drugs against a melanoma recurrence that has not spread beyond a limb. Using a fairly ...
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Community oncology: Ensuring the best standards of care
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is a devastating experience. Still under the shock of the bad news, patients must make many choices including who to turn to for advice and treatment, with the possibility to choose among a comprehensive ...
Feb 21, 2011 |
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