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Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Effectively Treated With Chemotherapy

...h early stage breast cancer significantly improves survival for women in their 50s and 60s, but there is little data among women ages 70 and older. Thus researchers suggest that chemotherapy may be significantly underused or dosages may be too low for the particular age group . Researchers analyzed data from...

New treatment for Cancer by injecting heated drugs

...f Fukui, Japan to test the efficiency and over-all survival of patients with advanced ovarian cancer who had b...ation for treatment of cancer as well. The rate of survival was more for patients with IPHC than patients undergoing standard course of treatment only. The pr...

Combination Therapy Found To Be More Effective In Treating Brain Cancer

...-up about 26 percent vs. about 10 percent. Median survival at 28 months was about 15 months for patients who received radiotherapy and chemotherapy compared to about 12 months for those who received radiotherapy alone. Thus in conclusion researchers say their results suggest that the combination treatment w...

Old Drugs Safe To Use In Cancer Treatment ?

...were seen in patients taking thalidomide. Overall survival did not differ between the two groups, but it is believed these findings suggest thalidomide holds promise as a treatment for severe weight loss that is common in cancer patients.A number of additional studies might be required before combination of ...

New Cancer Drug Hits the Mark

...in cancerous tumors, and people with poorer cancer survival rates tend to have especially high amounts. The drug was tested on 94 different types of human cancers in the laboratory both individually and in combination with other cancer drugs. The drug was able to inhibit cell division and thus hasten the de...

Hope For Those With Pancreatic Cancer

... key molecule that controls the growth, spread and survival of pancreatic cancer cells // could be a promising...e is critical in pancreatic cancer cell growth and survival through its effect on NF Kappa B -- a well-known cancer cell gene regulator. According to the study...

Presence of substandard drugs can pose concern for patients

...r a cardiac arrest, it can increase the chances of survival by over 25%. The study showed that medications could only realize the claims that had been made in their labels by as high as 90% to as low as 20% in some cases. These drugs are sold in countries like Brazil, India, Jordan, China and Pakistan. The r...

Surgery for early stage prostate cancer is better than waiting

...n the early stages of cancer increases the rate of survival of the patients below 65 years of age by 40%. The rate of spread of cancer from the target cells to other locations, also known as metastasis, gets reduced by 44% when surgery is performed early. Although after a follow up period of ten years, early ...

Married men fare better after surgery in prostrate cancer treatment

...ased on their findings, had said that since cancer survival depends a lot on the support of the patients families, it is important for the single patient to join a support group to give themselves the social security needed for a speedy recovery....

Breast cancer survivors can now exercise for better health

...nes and this could be one reason behind the better survival chances of breast cancer patients who regularly ex... hours of physical activity in a week. The rate of survival from breast cancer related death increases with increasing physical activities done per week and is ...

Patients with long ICU stay may be at risk from dying

...ayed in intensive care less had a 33% more rate of survival than the others who stayed more in intensive care units. The researchers feel that one reason can be poor physical functions, vitality, more pain and lower overall health that had required the patients to stay for more days in the intensive care. Th...

Physical activity improves survival in women with breast cancer

...oncluded that women with breast cancer can improve survival with moderate exercise which is just one dimension in support of exercise. Merits of physical activity are many folds and are part of the routine recommendations for disease prevention and disease control. So get ready to include exercises in your d...

New dosage of medicine gets more results in neuroblastoma

...nd that the PK-based dosages improve the chance of survival by prolonging the child’s cancer to the drug. Often reducing the size of the cancer tumor with the drug means that it will be easier to remove the malignant growth in the surgery. 40% of the patients enrolled for the study were surviving when the art...

Friendship can extend lifespan

...searchers had monitored factors that can influence survival rates through the social behavioral and environmental settings. The results of the study have shown that those with the strongest network of friends and confidants tend to live longer than those who had less strong network of friends. Friends or pee...

Grafting arteries to restore blood flow is best for survival

...e the risk and is expected to increase the rate of survival of the patient as well. Reference: Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, June 2005...

PET Scanner detects more Vaginal cancer than CT scans

...t 90 percent of patients will survive. The rate of survival drops to 70 percent if the cancer has spread to lymph nodes in the pelvis and even further to 30 to 40 percent if it has gone beyond the pelvic nodes. "It is very important to know at the time of diagnosis, for both cervical and vaginal cancer, not o...

Obese women with breast cancer may be under treated.

...eyond the primary tumor. This improves the overall survival in the breast cancer patients. Data on patients with early stage breast cancer treated with adjuvant therapy between 1990 and 2001 was analyzed. This included 9,672 women from 901 practices who were treated with doxorubicin hydrochloride and cycloph...

Understanding Chronic Infections May Help in Developing Therapeutic Vaccines

...r a cytokine that might boost the proliferation or survival of responding cells. While Wherry's primary interest is in chronic infection, he notes that research in this area should inform the design of better therapeutic cancer vaccines as well because many of the deficiencies in immune response are similar w...

New Race –Specific drug

...testament to BiDil's value. In trials, it improved survival rates among black people who had suffered heart failure by 47 per cent. In white patients, the figure was only 15 per cent. BiDil works by boosting the level of nitrous oxide in the walls of the body's arteries and capillaries, allowing them to exp...

Laparoscopic surgery can be safely employed for radical resection of cancer

...ry endpoint was measured in terms of a cancer-free survival 3 years after surgery. Short-term morbidity and mortality, number of positive resection margins, local recurrence, port-site or wound-site recurrence, metastasis, overall survival, and blood loss during surgery were the criteria to measure the secon...

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