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.

Breast Cancer Treatment Reduced From Six Weeks To Five Days

Scientists are working on a new therapy to treat breast cancer that would reduce the radiation time from six weeks to five days. For the time being, studies are being conducted and analysis made over the suitable subjects for the therapy and the benefits of new therapy over the conventional...

by simone2593 over a year ago

Chemotherapy may cause memory and other cognitive problems

Many cancer survivors have been found to suffer from memory and concentration problems as well as confusion. Brain scans of women who were treated for breast cancer 5 to 10 years before showed that the chemotherapy might have had produced long-term changes in the memory part of the brain. The...

by Miia2818 over a year ago

Cervical cancer vaccine should be available soon

Cervical cancer is a major worry for women nowadays. Even if it isn’t, it certainly should be considering that each year 13,000 new cases of cervical cancer appear only in the USA and the numbers are rising. Trials on both women and men are being conducted for effectiveness and safety of the...

by Mark 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 deck1348172971 over a year ago

Share Your Experience with Complementary/Alterative Medicines

Most people take complementary medicine in addition to what their doctor prescribes them for cancer. Does anyone think it would be a good idea to allow people to share their work done with complementary medicine? I was thinking about creating a website to allow people to submit information on what...

by pfezziwig31354 over a year ago

How successful can be allogeneic marrow transplantation?

As modern medicine is developing more and more, and new possibilities are on the horizon, I am hoping that diseases that were previously completely untreatable will now be curable. I know that allogeneic marrow transplantation is carried out now, but does anyone know how successful this is? What are...

by griffy1928202829 over a year ago

recent therapy with dendrtic vaccine in multiple myeloma-recurrent-stage -III

My patient is having Stage -III, A with multiple metastsis,with # of humerus lt,# of pevis Rt,# of D-11, heavily radiated and multiple chemo doses of DCEP alomg with Valcade given . His present M spike is .0.43 IGG-1547 He is 80 yr old. myleoma detected in 2004 aug. Can you suggest the dendtritic...

by gadpayleak@hotmail.com over a year ago

Cancer deaths decline steadily

Health experts have been constantly talking about and raising awareness about the prevention of the cancer development and it seemed that their effort has finally paid off. From the data collected it was determined that the death rate from most forms of cancer started declining in the early 1990s...

by Bobby over a year ago

Swollen lymph nodes after colorectal surgery

Answered by a doctor

I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer Dec '06. I had 5-FU chemo, radiation and then surgery. I now have a colostomy. I have had UTI's with blood in my urine that has not responded to 3 rounds of different antibiotics. I have swollen lymph nodes in my pelvic area. Could this be the cancer...

by Cathy over a year ago

Expert Advice on Surgery for High School Student

Hello , My name is Michelle Harvey and I am a sophmore at William W Bodine High School For International Affairs. Although I am young I have a great interest in becoming a surgeon amongst the trauma team. I love the long hours and the rush feeling of the E.R. I chose to work in this feild becuase...

by Guest over a year ago