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New Method Makes It Easier To Treat Prostate And Pancreatic Cancer
Feb 17, 2012
Laser light in combination with certain drugs - known as photodynamic therapy - can destroy cancer tumours, but is today used mostly to cure skin cancer. The reason that internal tumours are not treated with the method is that the technology does not exist to check that the precise amount of light is administered... Read More
Researchers Identify Cycle Of Platelet Production In Ovarian Cancer Patients
Feb 17, 2012
Highly elevated platelet levels fuel tumor growth and reduce the survival of ovarian cancer patients, an international team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer center reports in the New England Journal of Medicine... Read More
Helping Patients Tackle Geographic Challenges To Access Clinical Trials
Feb 17, 2012
As oncologists already know and newly diagnosed lung cancer patients learn, the kind of treatment given to patients is increasingly becoming dependent on the specific gene mutation present in the cancer... Read More
Would Cancer Treatment Be Enhanced By Low Molecular Weight Heparin?
Feb 17, 2012
For decades, the blood thinner heparin has been used to prevent and treat blood clots... Read More
Would Cancer Treatment Be Enhanced By Low Molecular Weight Heparin?
Feb 17, 2012
For decades, the blood thinner heparin has been used to prevent and treat blood clots... Read More
Ovarian Cancer - Best Imaging Technique Revealed
Feb 16, 2012
According to a study published in the journal Radiology, researchers from Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Center at the University of Cambridge, have determined that the best method to monitor how women with late-stage ovarian cancer are responding to treatment may be a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique... Read More
How Much Do Nutritional Interventions Help Malnourished Cancer Patients?
Feb 16, 2012
A study published February 15 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, reveals that oral nutritional interventions help malnourished cancer patients and individuals at nutritional risk improve some aspects of quality of life (QOL), as well as increase nutritional intake. However, the researchers found that these interventions did not affect mortality... Read More
The Complexities Involved In End Of Life Care
Feb 16, 2012
Everyone has to die one day, yet often the issue of death and dying still remains a taboo, despite the fact that palliative care is a major public health issue... Read More
Ovarian Cancer - Best Imaging Technique Revealed
Feb 16, 2012
According to a study published in the journal Radiology, researchers from Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Center at the University of Cambridge, have determined that the best method to monitor how women with late-stage ovarian cancer are responding to treatment may be a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique... Read More
Anti-Angiogenic Drugs May Be Effective Against New Subtype Of Ovarian Cancer
Feb 16, 2012
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a subtype of ovarian cancer able to build its own blood vessels, suggesting that such tumors might be especially susceptible to "anti-angiogenic" drugs that block blood vessel formation... Read More
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