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In the past clinical trials and studies showed that high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplant could improve survival for those diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer. The hopefulness of this procedure curing women has gone off to the sidelines. These days doctors will only perform high-dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant under a clinical [...]
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Eligible Pennsylvania women over 40 will now have access to free mammograms, thanks to the $1.7 million written into the 2006-07 Pennsylvania Budget. Last fall, the Pennsylvania Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Screening Act was unanimously passed by the PA legislature and signed by Governor Edward G. Rendell, making free mammograms available to eligible uninsured [...]
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Novel research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research has revealed that breast cancer patients, who avail the online information services and the information provided by support groups, feel confident about managing their illness and coming to terms with it. Breast cancer patients who use online information services in combination [...]
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Simply asking patients to map their moles on a drawing of their back after a monthly skin self-exam is an easy, low-cost way of reducing melanoma deaths, researchers report. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. It has a 95 percent survival rate if it’s detected early but only a 16 percent survival rate [...]
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This Tuesday, July 18, Talk to America will host a call-in talk show to discuss new advances in cancer treatment, prevention, and research, and issues of being a cancer survivor. Expert guests on the show will include Dr. Denise Johnson, MD, from Stanford University Medical Center; Dr. Thomas Brown from the Department of Gastro-Intestinal Medical [...]
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Head and neck cancers kill about a person a day. Even when treated successfully, they tend to leave patients hurting both physically and psychologically. “The side effects of our treatment are really devastating in some respects,” said Kenneth Watkin, a University of Illinois speech and hearing science professor. Watkin, whose research focuses on the diagnosis [...]
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New technology at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is allowing veterinarians to treat cancerous lesions that were previously not treatable. Alain Théon, professor of radiological science and chief of the school’s Oncology Service, says some animals are too small to be treated with conventional radiation therapy without lethal collateral damage to normal tissues. Intensity-modulated [...]
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The American Medical Association says treatment for cancer patients is making large strides as technology improves, giving doctors a better understanding of the disease. The group organized a briefing in New York Thursday, to share some of these new treatments. The American Medical Association says new therapies can prolong life and prevent the serious side [...]
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Colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the U.S. but the accuracy of determining the cancers progress can be improved by examining the lymph notes to which colorectal cancer is most likely to have spread. This can also spare some patients the cost and toxicity of chemotherapy, according to a [...]
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There are different types of treatment for patients with bladder cancer. Different types of treatment are available for patients with bladder cancer. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. Before starting treatment, patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. A treatment [...]
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Treatment of MM using conventional therapies has not proved successful and patients have a median survival time of 6 – 12 months after presentation. The clinical behaviour of the malignancy is affected by several factors including the continuous mesothelial surface of the pleural cavity which favours local metastasis via exfoliated cells, invasion to underlying tissue [...]
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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments are the diverse group of medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be effective by the standards of conventional medicine. Conventional medical practitioners may describe non-conventional treatment methods as a “complement” to conventional treatment, to provide comfort or lift the spirits of [...]
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