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Palliative care for chronic diseases

...cine.// Palliative care is given to patients where chemotherapy or other treatments no more works, it is mostly a symptomatic treatment given to patients to lessen their suffering. It is found that there is a rapid increase in demand for palliative care. Palliative care programs provide quality, efficient and c...

Cancer Patient Denied Vital Drug

...003. He has undergone a stem cell transplant and a chemotherapy treatment which failed to check the disease. The Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust is reported to have cancelled the first course of the anti-cancer drug Velcade for him. A single course of the drug costs ￡15,000, and this appears to beyon...

Georgia: Indian doctor's license cancelled

... the 70-year-old doctor treated the patient with a chemotherapy drug called methotrexate in doses so high they posed "an unreasonable and significant risk to the patient who subsequently died from complications caused by the methotrexate". The board said it had received a letter from Shanthaveerappa on Thursday...

Canadian Lung Cancer Study Lauded As Major Advance in Cancer Fight

...atment of early-stage lung cancer is successful if chemotherapy is given right after surgery is also mentioned as a major advance this year....

Death Risk Of Ovarian Cancer Reduced By Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

...udy. Among the participants, 210 received standard chemotherapy with cisplatin and paclitaxel, while another 205 r...mended by the National Cancer Institute to deliver chemotherapy drugs both directly into the abdomen and intravenously following surgery for ovarian cancer. Intra...

Rogue Mammary Stem Cells Could Hold Key To Breast Cancer Relapse

... a group of "rogue mammary stem cells" that escape chemotherapy and lie dormant. After a while, these viable stem cells reseed tumors so that a relapse occurs. The authors say that this could prove to be a valuable insight into the treatment of breast cancer if these findings applied to human breast tissue as wel...

Dogs Can Detect Cancer

...mmogram, or CAT scan and had not yet undergone any chemotherapy treatment, and a control sample of 83 healthy patients. The results of the study showed that the dogs were able to detect breast and lung cancer with sensitivity and specificity between 88% and 97%. The high accuracy persisted even after results w...

Embryo Freezing

...seful for cancer patients who are planning to have chemotherapy drug for treatment as chemotherapy mostly leads to infertility. Women has become self-dependent and are achieving great heights in th...

Kylie's Personal Battle Against Breast Cancer May Soon Come To An End

...ed in the care of her family and friends after her chemotherapy in Paris. With the help of alternative treatments such as healthy eating practices and the ongoing cancer treatments this 37 year old may still need another 6 months before she gets back on her feet. However her publicist said,...

Riverbanks Zoo’s Koala Has Cance

...e two female koalas in the zoo. Treatments like chemotherapy which are used on human beings are not effective against koalas. The animal has also attracted a lot of public attention. The facilities and procedures at the zoo are not reported to be responsible for the animal’s condition. The life span of koalas ...

Radiation Therapy Raises Survival Rate

...nt. Adjuvant therapies like surgical treatment and chemotherapy are being studied to raise the survival rate by the researchers, but these also suffer from the disadvantages of serious side effects. Data has also been collected from the cancer study Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) to see if more...

New Treatment Offers Hope For Lung Cancer Patients

...s witnessed when a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy was given to such patients. Provision of both form...could be improved by a margin of 6 to 8 weeks when chemotherapy was instituted to non-small cell lung cancer as a result of smoking. Researchers from the Peter MacC...

Experimental Therapy Effective Against Malignant Melanoma in Horses

...ient medicine may have significant modern uses for chemotherapy of non-resectable malignancies," said Robertson, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology. "This research showed that equine melanomas respond to this therapy." Frankincense oil is an extract from fermented plants and has...

Survival of colorectal cancer patients increases by intensive surveillance and follow up

...of patients who have finished their surgery and/or chemotherapy and are in the disease free state and follow up and this increased surveillance could help in increasing the survival of these cancer patients....

Smoking Marijuana Increases The Risk Of Bladder Cancer

...atients use marijuana to treat the side effects of chemotherapy and increase their appetite but this should be avoided as it would be doing them more harm than any good....

Zactima Receives Fast Track Designation By The FDA

...on to kill cancer cells from outside the body) and chemotherapy represent some of the available treatment options. Presently, there is no satisfactory chemotherapy regimen or other treatment modality for the cure of advanced thyroid cancer. Only those drugs, used ...

Hepatitis B Relapse In Cancer Chemotherapy Can Be Avoided By Antiviral Drug

...hepatitis B relapse in patients who are undergoing chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer. In hepatocellular c...e in order to prevent hepatitis B returning during chemotherapy will benefit patients in the long run. In the current study 36 patients with HCC were pretreated wit...

Human Error: Teenager’s Renewed Zest for Life Nose-Dive

...erapy began for the teenager on January 5th, after chemotherapy at Glasgow's York hill hospital. Last week, she had left the hospital happy that the tumor was gone! A few days later, hospital authorities visited her home to inform her about the overdose. Complaining of burns at the back of her neck and blisters...

Monoclonal Anti-Body To Revolutionize Brain Cancer Treatment

... most common type of primary brain tumor. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the only available treatment opt...tion of blood vessels and increasing resistance to chemotherapy drugs. The successful incorporation of the antibody, surpassing the 'blood-brain barrier' (BBB) prov...

Treatment Resistant Tumors Can Be Targeted Better Using Botox

...play an important role in enhancing the outcome of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, employed in cancer treatment. /...rug resistance or reduce standard radiotherapy and chemotherapy dosages, thereby eliminating the associated side effects. Until now, much of cancer treatment has ...

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