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Conserving the larynx

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy simultaneously aid patients with laryngeal cancer ...ere tried. In the first, the patients received two chemotherapy drugs, cisplatin and fluorouracil, followed by radiotherapy if there was a good response to chemothe...

Novel way to fight cancer

... the cancer on its own. The researchers then used chemotherapy to destroy the patient's ineffective immune system and replaced it with the T cells grown in the laboratory. In 10 of the 16 patients, the treatment resulted in at least a 62 percent shrinkage of the tumors, with no re-growth or appearance of new tum...

Associated therapy for multiple myeloma

...ple myeloma patients when combined with a standard chemotherapy agent. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochest...nation was well tolerated. Researchers say current chemotherapy regimens used as initial therapy for multiple myeloma have significant toxicity. In addition, the th...

Combination regime may work against prostate cancer

...pond better to a combination of Vitamin D with the chemotherapy drug// Taxotere. A phase II clinical trial of 35 men treated with a combination of Taxotere and Calcitriol found that this combination regime was more effective than treatment with Taxotere alone. This was measured by the prostate-specific antigen (...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...terval between successive doses of a commonly used chemotherapy regimen to improve survival rates in breast cancer...esearchers tested both dose dense and conventional chemotherapy regimens in 1,973 women with node-positive primary breast cancer and no other metastases. Following ...

Response to chemotherapy could be measured by Prostate-Specific Antigen Doubling Time

...xiliary endpoint for the evaluation of response to chemotherapy in patients with hormone refractory prostate cance...ore could indirectly be used to assess response to chemotherapy in patients with bone metastases....

Care with a touch!

...respective intervention the day after they started chemotherapy and then every three days until they were discharged from the program. Researchers found that there was significant improvements in patient perceptions and comfort levels when touch or massage therapy was provided. Patients receiving massage therapy...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

...non-small-cell lung cancers were spreading despite chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. Tumors removed from their lungs during surgery were ground up into individual cells. The cells were then bioengineered to make a T-cell alerting chemical signal. Patients got injections of this vaccine once or twice a week. ...

Poorer breast cancer prognosis with reduced physical activity

...intensive therapies such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy had a 50% decrease in their physical activity as compared to only a 24-percent decline in patients treated with surgery alone. Those women who underwent radiation therapy had a 24-percent decline in physical activity. The study also found that those ...

Longer Lung Cancer Survival

...arcie has stage four lung cancer.Her first dose of chemotherapy didn’t work. More chemo and radiation followed, but her cancer didn’t go away. She says, "You want to hear words of encouragement and hope. You know, you just long for something." Those words of hope came when she met Oncologist Karen Kelly, M.D., w...

Reduced Fatigue Boosts Mental Health

...nternational study were anemic patients undergoing chemotherapy to treat lung cancer. They either received Aranesp...piratory insufficiency, hypoxemia, side effects of chemotherapy and undernutrition....

Radiation Not Needed for Childhood Cancers

...ren with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received chemotherapy but not radiation to the brain area tended to live longer and with a better quality of life than those who got both treatments. But the long-term outcomes for both groups were quite high.The second study found the risk of hospitalization for psychiat...

Therapy Boosts Chemotherapy Effects

...atment that makes leukemia cells more sensitive to chemotherapy may increase disease-free survival for those with ...reviously untreated AML to receive either standard chemotherapy or chemotherapy and treatment with a growth factor known as granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, o...

Chemotherapy Effective for Bladder Cancer

...new study. The research shows patients who receive chemotherapy plus surgery //survive longer than patients who on...on Cancer Center conducted a study to determine if chemotherapy plus surgery could help patients live longer. Researchers found patients treated with surgery alone...

Oncologists Overlook Clot Risk

...o were surveyed treated their patients with either chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and less than 10 percent said they used hormone therapy on their patients. Results of the study show more than 90 of the 160 doctors surveyed thought radiotherapy posed little or no increased risk for blood clots. More than 80 docto...

New Liver Tumor Treatment

...ch involves cutting off the blood supply and using chemotherapy to reduce tumor size. For the study, researchers used TACE to treat 162 patients with liver tumors. Each patient underwent two to seven TACE treatments to reduce their tumor size. The size of each tumor was measured before and during treatment. Rese...

PET Scan May Be Beneficial After Cancer Treatment

... completing a combined treatment of radiation and chemotherapy //reliably identified residual cancer and distant metastases or secondary tumors in patients with advanced-stage head and neck cancer. This result, researchers say, has a direct influence on health management decisions. Twenty-six patients with stag...

Improving Survival Rate Of Lung Cancer Patients

...ive either three or four cycles of cisplatin-based chemotherapy or observation. In addition to cisplatin, the drug...study show, after five years, patients assigned to chemotherapy had a significantly higher survival rate at 44.5 percent than those assigned to observation who had ...

A Combination Of Drugs Effective In The Treatment Of Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

A recent study has shown that a chemotherapy regimen combining vinorelbine (Navelbine) and mitoxantrone (Novantrone)// with the corticosteroid prednisone is effective in the treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer . Specialists say this treatment should be offered to symptomatic patient...

Fertility After Testicular Cancer Questioned

...rikes men between 20 and 34 years old. Advances in chemotherapy and radiotherapy have // led to an improved surviv...antly more likely to cause fertility problems than chemotherapy alone. Based on their findings, researchers suggest men diagnosed with testicular cancer take step...

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