Chemotherapy Linked to Persistent Nerve Pain in 4 in 10 Cancer Patients
BMJ Group via News-Medical – The drugs used to treat cancer damage healthy cells and tissues, including the nervous system. Worldwide, cancer chemotherapy is linked to persistent severe peripheral nerve pain…
New Study Examines if ‘Inoperable’ Pancreatic Tumors Can Be Safely Removed
University of Utah Health via Newswise – A clinical trial from Keck Medicine of USC aims to provide a surgical solution for patients with a form of advanced pancreatic cancer previously…
A Potential New Treatment for Brain Tumors
University of Cincinnati via Newswise – A research question posed in Pankaj Desai’s lab has led to a decade of research, a clinical trial and major national funding to further investigate…
How Effective Is Chemotherapy for Colon, Lung, Breast, and Prostate Cancers?
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts– How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers? “Over the last several decades…medicine has waged a major war against cancer, concentrating on…
Futuristic Tech Brings Healing Relaxation to Radiotherapy
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – The first day of cancer radiation therapy begins inside a simulator machine. The patient lies immobilized for up to 45 minutes while lasers and imaging…
Tis the Season with a Miraculous Story of Recovery from Cancer, then Heart Failure
Henry Ford Health System via Newswise – DETROIT (December 13, 2021) – This holiday season will be especially merry for Dennis Brant who has made miraculous recoveries from heart failure and cancer. …
NEW VIDEO: Beat Cancer By Balancing Your Autonomic Nervous System
Edit Lang via NaturalHealth365 – For the past eighteen months, an invisible virus – COVID-19 – has gotten all the spotlight. It is as if the top chronic diseases that claim…
Targeted Drug Combination Shows Unprecedented Activity in Some Highly Aggressive Brain Tumors
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute via Newswise – A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, “clinically meaningful” activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumors that carried a rare genetic mutation, according…
New AI-Based Tool Improves the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Tumors
Karolinska Institute via News-Medical – Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed an AI-based tool that improves the diagnosis of breast cancer tumors and the ability to predict the risk…
Researchers Developing New Cancer Treatments With High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound
University of Waterloo via Newswise – Researchers are bringing the use of acoustic waves to target and destroy cancerous tumours closer to reality. While doctors have used low-intensity ultrasound as a…
Radio-Wave Therapy Is Safe for Liver Cancer Patients and Shows Improvement in Overall Survival
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center via EurekAlert – Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine have shown that a targeted therapy using non-thermal radio waves is safe to use in the treatment of…
Groundbreaking Study Optimizes Patient’s Own Immune System to Fight Tumors
University of Minnesota via News-Medical – A groundbreaking study led by engineering and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities shows how engineered immune cells used in new cancer…
Cure for Deadly Brain Cancer May Be on Its Way
Brian Blum via Israel21c – Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer, accounting for half of all primary brain cancers. It has a 40 percent survival rate after a…
Targeted Delivery of Highly Toxic Anti-Cancer Drug to Brain Tumors
University of Houston via EurekAlert – With a survival rate of only five years, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, is notoriously hard to treat…
Researchers Explore How to Protect Gut Integrity to Improve Outcomes in Blood Cancers
Medical University of South Carolina via EurekAlert – MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers found that a single strain of bacteria may be able to reduce the severity of graft-versus-host disease…
