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.

recurrent larynx cancer treatment options

My father had received radiation treatment for cancer of the epiglottis. The treatment ended in December. However, instead of gradually feeling better, the pain gradually got worse, if you can believe that. The Doctors continued to treat his symptons with prednisone and told him he needs time to...

by karie27412 over a year ago

Cancer drug approved

Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer, accounting for 1.2 million cases a year worldwide, while non-small cell lung cancer accounts for almost 80 % of all types of lung cancer. European Union authorities have approved cancer pill Tarceva for use in patients with the most common form of lung...

by Mick over a year ago

Researchers Used New Procedure For Pancreatic Cancer Surgery

Doctors used new technique for pancreatic cancer treatment and said that this new technique gives hope to those pancreatic cancer patients with advanced tumors that have spread to the portal vein. At the moment there’s no effective treatment for pancreatic cancer and people diagnosed with this...

by lucky29 over a year ago

CA-125 fluctuations, which is a good value for this test?

Hi, I’ve been diagnosed with ovarian cancer two years ago and after the surgery and adjuvant chemo things seed to go well enough. On my regular checkups I always had CA-125 measured and I was always told its normal for me to be a little higher, but it worries me a lot that every time I had it...

by Megan over a year ago

herbs for radiation therapy

Hi, guys. My wife has been diagnosed with lung cancer and she needs a radiation therapy. I know how much this therapy brings side effects and I won’t name them here. I would like to know if I could ease her difficulties somehow. Are there any herbs for radiation therapy I could use? I would...

by barnard57172957 over a year ago

Smoking risk of young cancer survivors

A team from the University of Birmingham conducted a survey from which they learned a shocking fact that childhood cancer survivors, who are most likely to develop tumours as adults, continue to endanger their health by smoking. The researchers identified the highest smoking rates among patients...

by DanDan over a year ago