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Tag: "chemotherapy" at medical news

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

...etter chance of survival and sparing the trauma of chemotherapy as well as radiation therapy. This is the first time that an attempt has been made to deliver a therapeutic agent against oral cancer...

Lung Cancer: Nutritional Intervention Comes To The Rescue

...new hope that nutritional intervention, instead of chemotherapy or surgical excision, can come to the rescue of those diagnosed with terminal lung cancer....

Another Benefit For Human Health Attributed To Omega-3-Fats

...ini said. What saved D.H. is not the conventional chemotherapy and surgery, but a nutritional intervention - drastically increasing the intake of omega-3 fatty acids that are widely found in fish oil or golden algae oil. Today, CT scan results showed the cancer shrunk 10 percent. Dr. Pardini is no quack docto...

Medical Breakthrough - Kidney Transplant Recipient Survives Without Drugs

...rrow doesn't function properly. It needs intensive chemotherapy and treatment can be quite toxic, which is not pos... which involves using significantly lower doses of chemotherapy and radiation compared to standard bone marrow transplantation therapy. In the procedure, the patie...

LINK Applied Genomics Programme Promises To Revolutionize Healthcare Systems

... cells, thereby avoiding the unpleasant effects of chemotherapy like nausea and loss of hair. * Rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases - Scientists at the Universities of Bath and Glasgow, with colleagues from Stobhill Hospital and Atlas Genetics Ltd are working towards developing assays that could be held in t...

Genetic Profile To Predict Ovarian Cancer Prognosis

...ith ovarian cancer, at whatever stage, first grade chemotherapy usually shows an effect in combating the cancer. But, "due to the lingering presence of chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells, most patients will unfortunately experience a relapse. The goal of our current research is to help determine which patients w...

Cervical Cancer Can Now Be Better Handled With Gene Silencing Therapy

... gene silencing was found to enhance the effect of chemotherapy by up to four times. One main advantage of this approach is that the normal cells remain unaffected during manipulation, as the main target is the viral gene. The researchers hope to exploit this form of treatment to all forms of cervical cancer in...

Combination Therapy With ENBREL And Methotrexate Found Effective In RA Treatment

...tion therapy with anti-TNF agents (etanercept) and chemotherapy drug methotrexate has been shown to be effective in the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis.// Furthermore, the progression of joint damage has been considerably slowed down in over three quarters of patients. The chronic nature of the severe disabling...

Novel Treatment Found To Prolong Survival Of Liver Cancer Patients

... at the tumor and is delivered in combination with chemotherapy approximated to a dose of 400 folds the convention...two weeks, along with a continuous infusion of the chemotherapy drug floxuridine. The chemotherapy was administered through a catheter into the artery that supplies...

Radiation And Chemotherapy, A Better Option For Head And Neck Cancer

...s that a combination of radiation therapy // and chemotherapy could avert speech problems in head and neck cance... Surgery. All these patients were initially put on chemotherapy and after assessment of their response were either treated with radiation or surgery. The doctors ...

Wangaratta Community fundraising for Herceptin drug

... Her-2/neu positive patients are more resistant to chemotherapy and anti-estrogen therapy such as tamoxifen and they require treatment using Herceptin (monoclonal antibody). The Government has approved law for providing Her-2 positive patients for Herceptin drug in late stage breast cancer but not for early stage...

Rolling Stones Guitarist Wants Chemotherapy

Washington: Desire to have chemotherapy - whether needed or not is a very unlikely request...aled that// he is seriously considering undergoing chemotherapy whether he needs it or not. Keith said that he had was seriously thinking about it after seeing it...

New Treatment Found For Pancreatic Cancer

...e size of the tumor by administering radiation and chemotherapy first, after which it can be surgically be removed...s Cotton Cancer Center trial with a high dosage of chemotherapy of gemcitabine and docetaxel followed by a combination of gemcitabine and radiation. Half the tumors...

Chemotherapy Treatment Can Be Given To The Elderly also

Adjuvant chemotherapy treatment can be given to eligible patients inclus.... According to researchers, patients who received chemotherapy after surgery to treat their advanced colon cancer displayed a 16% improvement compared with patient...

Colon Cancer Patients Not Receiving Proper Treatment

...o the correct treatment measures more specifically chemotherapy after surgery//. It has been found that this treat...rs after the diagnosis of cancer if they are given chemotherapy in addition to surgery. The five-year survival rate is increased by 16 percent. The study has found ...

Mother Sacrifices Her Life For Her Son

...on religious grounds. She was given a mild form of chemotherapy treatment with the object of suppressing the illness until the child was born. She died after her newborn son Nathan was baptized. Nathan is now a four-month-old toddler. The doctors were compelled to induce him due to a rise in the calcium levels ...

Herceptin for Early Stage Breast cancer

...kes their breast cancer very aggressive and resist chemotherapy and Tamoxifen therapy (anti-estrogen therapies). T...sitive patients found better prognosis compared to chemotherapy treatment alone. The results of the trial had shown the benefits of Herceptin drug also in the treat...

Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo

...ce in Texas, very few women with breast cancer get chemotherapy in future. The new approach calls for choosing a t...ke those lining the mouth and stomach. That is why chemotherapy causes hair loss, nausea and mouth sores. But the worst part is that chemotherapy helps only about ...

Rejuvenation of Stem cells by GSK-3 Inhibitor

...ut causing any toxicity or side effects. Cancer chemotherapy apart from being cytotoxic to cancer cells also affects the normal cells and immune system degeneration. Stem cells from bone marrow transplants and cord blood from fetus were used for regeneration of Immune system. Transplant rejection was showed by...

Sex, Race Influence Lung Cancer Trial Participation

...s have found that the drugs that are a part of the chemotherapy regimen are primarily approved after clinical trials that involve more men than women. Lawmakers as well as researchers have stressed the need to enroll more women and minority groups in these trials since the drugs act differently as biological fact...

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