Cancer Treatment

There are many different cancer treatment, and your doctor will take many factors into account before deciding on the most appropriate treatment — including cancer type, your age, medical history, and lifestyle. Talk about your treatment and see what has helped others in the realms of both conventional (surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy) and alternative (herbs, vitamins, chemicals, diet, meditation, massage, acupuncture, and body-mind therapy) medicine.

Cervical cancer vaccine should be approved

A vaccine that blocks infection by the four virus types that cause most cervical cancers and genital warts appears safe and effective, but may actually increase the chance of disease in some patients, according to Food and Drug Administration documents. An FDA panel of outside experts is to meet...

by simone2593 over a year ago

Can a person survive without lymphatic nodes, after breast cancer surgery?

Please tell me what happens if a person is affected by breast cancer and has their lymphatic nodes removed as a part of the breast cancer surgery? Is it possible to survive without the lymphatic nodes somehow, or do they replace them in some way? It would be great if somebody could explain this to...

by alejandro380181581 over a year ago

Too Much Chemo Has Bad Influence On Breast Cancer Treatment

Recent research found that high dose of chemotherapy isn’t good treatment for breast cancer. This treatment is based on extraction of stem cells from bone marrow of patient diagnosed with breast cancer before surgical removal of tumor. After the surgery a lot of chemotherapy is needed and it’s...

by Markos over a year ago

Researchers know how to stop cancer from spreading

Researchers from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York managed to identify four genes that seem to help breast cancer cells to metastasize to the lungs. This finding enabled them to prevent spreading of the breast cancer in mice with a cocktail of drugs already used in humans. The...

by Heather_2 over a year ago

Glucose reading fluctuations: why different in left / right

I moniter my glucose levels every morning as I'm a type II diabetic on glucophage (metformin). Occasionally, I've noticed a variation in levels in right versus left hands. For example, this morning I noticed a high level (119) in my left hand, retested my right hand at 101. Any ideas/explanations?

by stevessmith over a year ago

A girl who was given a massive radiation overdose dies

Lisa Norris, 16, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in October last year died a year after the doctors had informed her and her family that she had had received 17 overdoses of radiation during treatment. When she was diagnosed with cancer she was admitted to the Beatson Oncology Centre in...

by Heidi Miller, LDN over a year ago

Delay in Cancer Treatment Found to Raise Recurrence

Researchers from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York looked at the medical records of around 8,000 patients with Stage 1 breast cancer and found that one in five breast cancer patients ages 65 and older postponed radiation therapy or did not complete the full radiation regimen after...

by Miia2818 over a year ago

Anti Cancer Compound Found In A Woody Shrub

Australian researchers found an anti – cancer compound in a woody shrub. The drug shows activity against several human cancer cells lines and has a great potential in treating colon cancer. Another thing of great importance is that the researchers have successfully extracted a great amount of...

by Natalia3856 over a year ago

New Method Developed To Cut Down Chemotherapy Deaths

University of Bath from England has created a new localized way of administering chemotherapy drugs that would release the chemicals mainly at the cancer site, and much lower dosage to the rest of the body. This way many of the negative side effects of current way of administering would be...

by MarioB. over a year ago

Cesium Chloride therapy-somebody tried it?

Dear all, I have been reading positive findings regarding Cesium Chloride therapy so I wanted to ask have some one tried it or do you know somebody that tried it and what are the results?? Thank you & I am very grateful for any answer I get... Regards , Sun

by Sun over a year ago