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As per an international study, doctors can determine the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death with the help of a test that checks the expression of 70 genes related with breast cancer. The studies included as many as 307 patients and were followed for 13.6 years. The patients were categorized in to high- and [...]
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The family has asked that they not be identified by name as they grieve the loss of their family member lost to a massive overdose of the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil. Last week, a 43-year-old mother of three, died from a massive chemotherapy drug overdose mistakenly administered by a portable pump used primarily by gastrointestinal, genito-urinary [...]
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The addition of further chemotherapy added to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with esophageal cancer can improve survival. When diagnosed with esophageal cancer the patient is usually given chemotherapy to shrink the tumor before surgery, it also may be accompanied by radiation. This gives a better chance that the tumor will be smaller and can be [...]
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Recent research indicates that obesity makes ovarian cancer deadlier and more likely to recur. According to physician and senior author of the study, Dr. Andrew J. Li of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, maintaining ideal body weight is important for many reasons. This is just one more reason to reduce obesity — because obese women suffering [...]
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Glioblastoma Multiforme is usually only has a survival rate up to one year after diagnosis. This primary brain tumor’s standard treatment is surgery to remove as much as the cancer as possible, radiation and or chemotherapy. Even with the most aggressive forms of treatment the patients do not survive.Researchers are trying to improve survival of [...]
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Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men between the ages of 15 to 34. There are two different types of testicular cancer based on how the cells look under a microscope. The classifications are seminoma and non-seminoma testicular cancer. Metastatic nonseminomatuous testicular cancer can be cured in many men with chemotherapy. Sometimes after [...]
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Positron emission tomography (PET) can measure metabolic activity of tissue. Cancer cells tend to have a higher metabolism than normal tissue, which can be determined on PET for more accurate detection of cancer.Using the PET scan after diagnoses of breast cancer to check lymph nodes for cancer was looked at in a study that was [...]
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A study of women with ovarian cancer undergoing chemotherapy shows that those with a more optimistic outlook were less distressed and had a better quality of life. The study team also found that higher levels of optimism at the start of treatment were associated with greater declines in cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) levels during [...]
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When Melissa Barnes found out a friend’s baby was diagnosed with a deadly cancer, she e-mailed her other friends and asked for prayers. They did better than just pray. They started a full-fledged campaign to cure 16-month-old Keyonna Stephenson and help support her mother, Christine, 28. “The outpouring of generosity was overwhelming,” Barnes said. One [...]
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A new genomic test, called the Lung Metagene Predictor, has been developed that will tell physicians which lung cancer patients will benefit from chemotherapy and which ones do not need to be unnecessarily exposed to toxic chemotherapy cocktails. Duke University Medical Center scientists state they have developed the first-ever test that has the potential to [...]
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Chemotherapy can cause anemia. Anemia is characterized by low levels of circulating red blood cells. These red blood cells are responsible for bringing oxygen to the tissues throughout our body.
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