News tagged with cancer patients
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 ...
When Genes Cooperate, Lung Cancer Grows and Spreads
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The combined expression of three specific genes in lung cancer tumors may predict both cancer growth and a poorer prognosis, according to a study led by researchers in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences ...
Test may help predict colon cancer recurrence risk
May 14, 2009 |
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A new gene test may help predict which colon cancer patients are at higher or lower risk of having their cancer return after surgery, doctors report, but whether it is useful enough to justify its likely high price remains ...
Taste, odor intervention improves cancer therapy
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Cancer and its therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, may directly alter and damage taste and odor perception, possibly leading to patient malnutrition, and in severe cases, significant morbidity, according to ...
MIT student develops new innovations to selectively kill cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 03, 2009 |
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When it comes to solving complex problems, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, MIT graduate student and biomedical engineer, looks to nature for solutions. Finding inspiration in systems that evolution has produced, von ...
Glitches in DNA repair genes predict prognosis in pancreatic cancer
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Variations in mismatch repair genes can help predict treatment response and prognosis in patients with pancreatic cancer, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center presented today in ...
Newly identified gene powerful predictor of colon cancer metastasis
Dec 21, 2008 |
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Cancer Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charité – Universitäts Medizin Berlin (Germany) have identified a gene which enables them to predict for the first time with high ...
Teamwork cuts out unnecessary biopsies, researchers find
Jul 22, 2008 |
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Unnecessary biopsies could be a thing of the past for patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer. New Saint Louis University research found that when nuclear medicine clinicians and treating physicians work together ...
Genetic changes shown to be important indicators for disease progression in cervical cancer patients
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Cervical cancer patients with specific changes in the cancer genome have a three- or fourfold increased risk of relapse after standard treatment compared to patients without these changes, according to a study by Norwegian ...
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.
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 ...
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.
