News tagged with cancer patients
Depression in older cancer patients can be effectively treated with collaborative approach
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Depression in older cancer patients can be effectively treated with collaborative approach in primary-care settings.
Exercise reduces fatigue in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Supervised exercise programmes that include high and low intense cardiovascular and resistance training can help reduce fatigue in patients with cancer who are undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy or treatment for advanced disease. ...
Breast cancer intervention reduces depression, inflammation
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 31, 2009 |
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A psychological intervention for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients with symptoms of depression not only relieves patients' depression but also lowers indicators of inflammation in the blood.
Study finds that lung cancer patients respond to erlotinib following cetuximab therapy
Aug 02, 2009 |
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Non-small cell lung cancer patients who have progressed on a cetuximab-containing regimen may respond to erlotinib, Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers reported today at the annual meeting of the International Association ...
Surgery remans an option for advanced lung cancer
Jul 27, 2009 |
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In recent years, oncologists have debated whether patients with a certain type of advanced lung cancer would benefit from surgery.
Study finds strong relationship between high body mass index, pancreatic cancer
Jun 23, 2009 |
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In reviewing the weight history of pancreatic cancer patients across their life spans, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that a high body mass index in early adulthood may ...
Researchers identify critical marker of response to gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer
Jun 04, 2009 |
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A protein related to aggressive cancers can actually improve the efficacy of gemcitabine at treating pancreatic cancer, according to a Priority Report in Cancer Research, published by researchers at Thomas Jefferson Univer ...
Diet may reduce risk of prostate cancer
Jun 03, 2009 |
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A new review published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics assessed whether certain modifications in diet have a beneficial effect on the prevention of prostate cancer. Results suggest that a diet low in fat an ...
New therapies to treat breast, lymph cancer: studies
Jun 01, 2009 |
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New therapies developed following groundbreaking clinical trials appear to effectively target breast cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to research unveiled Sunday at a major cancer conference.
Chemotherapy combination outcomes differ for aged, younger colon cancer patients
May 29, 2009 |
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ORLANDO, Fla.--The combination of chemotherapies 5FU and oxaliplatin compared to 5FU alone after surgery for colon cancer decreases colon cancer recurrence and promotes longer survival for patients under 70 -- but not for ...
New study finds dramatic increase in metastatic colon cancer survival
May 26, 2009 |
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Novel chemotherapy and biological agents for metastatic colorectal cancer, combined with surgical advances in liver resection, have resulted in a dramatic increase in survival for patients with advanced disease, according ...
PET scan can non invasively measure early assessment of treatment for common type of breast cancer
May 26, 2009 |
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Non-invasive imaging can measure how well patients with the most common form of breast cancer - estrogen receptor positive type - respond to standard aromatase inhibitor therapy after only two weeks and shows similar findings ...
A taste of help to keep cancer patients' pounds up
May 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The statistic is shocking: Severe malnutrition and weight loss play a role in at least one in five cancer deaths. Yet nutrition too often is an afterthought until someone's already in trouble.
Study examines trends in gallbladder cancer over 4 decades
May 18, 2009 |
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Overall prognosis for gallbladder cancer appears to be improving, although many patients still have incurable disease and poor survival rates, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Surgery.
Triple drug combination is promising option to treat metastatic HER2+ breast cancer
May 15, 2009 |
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Combining two chemotherapy drugs with trastuzumab (Herceptin) to treat women who have metastatic HER2+ breast cancer may offer physicians another choice in their treatment options.
