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Link between Faith, Health and Healing

...e to start living again and pioneering the "cancer survival pyramid," are its major activities. Cancer patients are taught how to join the shattered pieces of their lives and learn to live life to its fullest. They are encouraged to love life again. The adult programme focuses on inculcating healthy eating h...

High-Dosage of Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide may cause AML

...DS. It has been reported that though the long-term survival of these patients as increased following administration of these drugs, but the risk of developing secondary AML with or without MDS has been increased. Epirubicin monitoring plan was started by Dr. Rogers collaboration with Gruppo Pfizer of Milan, ...

Drug Tarceva for End-stage Lung cancer

...s given to lung cancer patients after surgery, the survival rate of these patients is high. Surgeries prior to..., compared with 54% who just had surgery. Overall, survival rate was 94 months for the study recruits compared to 73 months for those who had surgery alone. A ...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

... follow-up of 3years, they found that relapse-free survival was similar between the two groups (95·4% for the carboplatin group vs. 96·6% for radiation therapy). At 5 years they also found that patients receiving carboplatin were less likely to develop tumors in their remaining testicle. Treatment for stage ...

Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

... follow-up of 3years, they found that relapse-free survival was similar between the two groups (95·4% for the carboplatin group vs 96·6% for radiation therapy). At 5 years they also found that patients receiving carboplatin were less likely to develop tumours in their remaining testicle. Researchers say the ...

Statins Gives New Hope for Increased Survival Rate of Heart Failure Patients

...ients with diastolic heart failure increases// the survival rate by 22% compared to patients receiving other d...eart failure (DHF) treated with statins has better survival rates. The study was done on 137 diastolic heart failure patients published in the Journal Circulati...

New Discovery to Increase Survival of Breast cancer Patients

...on of high levels of TRAIL-R2 causes a decrease in survival rates of breast cancer patients. TRAIL receptors are cell surface receptors that triggers cell death, the study has found that TRAIL-R1 expression was not associated with survival, high TRAIL-R2 expression strongly correlated with decreased surviva...

An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell

...l" can prove to be effective and safe and prolong survival of cancers. This study reported in the July 28 ...tment and delivery variations. But it is patient survival and quality of life that really inspire this research, Sasisekharan said. Eighty percent of the nano...

Gene causes moles to become cancerous

...melanoma that has not spread below the skin have a survival rate of 97 percent beyond five years. But as the tumor begins to grow, the survival rate falls to 50 percent if it has reached the lymph nodes below the skin and 20 percent if it has s...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...e sensitive to direct gaze very early in life as a survival necessity. Farroni is a researcher with the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development in the School of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London.// Farroni, felt that newborns are not able to move, so they need to orient in the direction...

Moles become cancerous due to genes

...melanoma that has not spread below the skin have a survival rate of 97 percent beyond five years. But as the tumor begins to grow, the survival rate falls to 50 percent if it has reached the lymph nodes below the skin and 20 percent if it has s...

Chemo may not assist in fighting cancer

...y provided no benefit. The five-year, disease-free survival rate for those who only took tamoxifen was 80 perc...could be a life saver. The five-year, disease-free survival rate for those who had both chemo and tamoxifen was 82 percent. For ER-negative patients who took on...

New Implantable Device That Can Keep The Heart Ticking

...chemic cardiomyopathy may improve their chances of survival if they have a device called a cardioverter-defibrillator implanted in their chests.// Researchers, assigned about 460 patients with severe cardiomyopathy to receive either standard treatment, with drugs like ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers, or st...

Artificial Heart , Gives Hope For Patients Awaiting a Heart Transplant

...transplant . The artificial heart implant improved survival rates before receiving actual heart transplants an...ws, arrhythmias, and ventricular clots.The rate of survival to transplantation for the patients who received the artificial heart was 79 percent compared to 46 ...

Drug might prevent Prostate Cancer Spread

...nate have longer symptomatic bone progression-free survival times than men treated with placebo.” More than 70 percent of the men who took the medication also reported a significant number of side effects. The physicians report side effects lessened when the dosage was adjusted. The study investigators say ...

Heart Attack Patients Reaching Hospital During Off-Hours Have Increased Risk Of Death

...e from symptom onset to treatment, the greater the survival benefit with either therapy. Scientists of Kaiser Permanente, Denver, had examined the relationship between time of day and day of week and reperfusion treatment times for STEMI patients treated with fibrinolytic therapy or PCI. The authors write t...

Women and Black Patients have less chances to survive a Heart Attack

...ed what has remained constant is the difference in survival between male and female patients, whites and blacks in the // USA. In one of the largest national studies on this topic in the US, the researchers have shown that the ‘use of clinically recommended treatments’ - such as aspirin, beta-blockers...

Aspirin Benefits Cardiac Disease Patients, Even Before Surgery

...significant. This is a very strong association of survival with taking aspirin in the days leading up to surgery said the researcher. The study further confirms aspirin’s benefits for patients with known cardiovascular disease. It also shows there is no increased risk of bleeding, which eliminates the main r...

Statins Taken For Reducing Cholesterol Found To Reduce Death Rate Associated With Heart Attack As Well

...hat the aim of any treatment is enhanced long-term survival if not cure, it would be wise enough to carry out further research in the same direction to have substantial and authoritative evidence. After all, who knows what the future may hold?...

New Strategies For Effective Treatment Of Malaria

...orm of malaria, artesunate increased the chance of survival by a third. The researchers feel that novel approaches is required for treatment of malaria, by using combinations of anti-malarial drugs, the same approach which is used in the treatment of AIDS and TB is required for combating malaria. By combinin...

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