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.

Non-hormonal Treatment Regimens Improve Survival Rates For Metastatic Breast Cancer

Effectiveness of numerous regimens have been tested in advanced breast cancer but since these trials were able to compare only a few regimens, it was very difficult for researchers and clinicians to determine the relative merits of the individual regimens. A systematic review, done by the...

by DennisD. over a year ago

Diagnosed with bladder cancer, bcan site says there's a high chance of the cancer returning

Hello, I hope somebody can give more advice or hope for this situation. My dad has been diagnosed with bladder cancer recently and has started his first turn of chemo. While I'm hoping for the best, looking up resources online didn't offer me much hope. Looking through patient info on bcan, it seems...

by Tammy Leann over a year ago

New Radiotherapy System Can Help Treating Some High - Risk Cancer Cases

Researchers found that new radiotherapy system which uses high – tech imaging with precision tumor targeting capability is of great help for the cancer patients. During the research it was determined that this new system could be of great help for the patients who have medically inoperable tumors...

by Lori2592 over a year ago

Video games to help teens with cancer beat the disease

Cigna Corp., a video games maker, developed HopeLab's "Re-Mission" video game to help teens and young adults blast cancer by learning them to improve the odds of beating the disease. The video game is available on their website, free of charge. HopeLab, a Northern California-based...

by simone2593 over a year ago

Blood Cancer treatment

I have a very serious question for you all to answer me.My best friend is suffering from Blood Cancer.She is at the second stage and her age is 16I really wanted to know if there is possibly anyway to cure this disease!All suggestions needed!Can blood cancer be completely cured?Please help.

by Yasin over a year ago

How big is Gemzar success rate?

Hello, My mom is suffering from reoccurring ovarian cancer and this time her oncologist has pretty much told us that her last hope is trying the new chemo, combination of Gemzar with Cisplatin. I’ve read different stories online and what most of them have in common is that Gemzar was given as the...

by Guest over a year ago

Anti-cancer vaccine on sale

Around 6.2 million men and women under age 25 get HPV in the United States every year. About 9,700 women from this group will develop cervical cancer and 3,700 may die from it this year The numbers will hopefully reduce now after a vaccine, called Gardasil, against cervical cancer had been found...

by Tim over a year ago

Study Found That Cancer Cells Can Hide From Immune System

Recent research found that certain cancer cells have invisible cloak which allows them to hide from immune system. During the research it was found that metastatic tumors can be invisible to immune system by help of the chromatin remodeling. This is possible in cases of ovarian, prostate, cervical...

by Markos over a year ago

cancer, is there anything you can eat that will keep food do

a relative has recently been diagnosed with cancer of the liver and pancreas and has an infection in the stomach. he has under gone 2 rounds of chemo and is throwing up most of the food he eats. i was wondering if there is anything (food wise) he can have before a meal to line his stomach to...

by alderachi28338 over a year ago

Non-surgical Photodynamic Therapy for Cancer Developed

British scientists from the Peninsula Medical School in Cornwall developed a modified photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment and made a breakthrough in cancer treatment. The new treatment destroys cancer cells without harming the surrounding tissue. Photodynamic therapy is an effective non-surgical...

by MarioB. over a year ago