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Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer

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created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current issue of Alternative and Complementary Th ...





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PSA value at 2 years post-treatment can predict long-term survival in prostate cancer patients

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prostate cancer patients who have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value of less than or equal to 1.5 at two years after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) are less likely to have a cancer recurrence and cancer-related ...


New cancer study takes major step toward improved treatment

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cancer researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to turn ineffective new cancer drugs into cancer-fighters. By using their patented chemical compound, SHetA2, researchers tricked cancer ...


Obesity linked with poorer breast cancer outcomes

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer patients with a high body mass index (BMI) have a poorer cancer prognosis later in life. Specifically, their treatment effect does not last as long and their risk of death increases.


Scientists uncover new key to the puzzle of hormone therapy and breast cancer

Scientists uncover new key to the puzzle of hormone therapy and breast cancer

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The use of postmenopausal hormone therapy has decreased over time in the United States, which researchers suggest may play a key role in the declining rate of atypical ductal hyperplasia, a known risk factor ...


New international study targets rare cancer bringing hope for advanced thymic cancer patients

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dec. 8, 2009 — The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare are testing a new drug specifically for thymic cancer based on early promising results at Scottsdale Healthcare.


Long-term testicular cancer survivors at high risk for neurological side effects

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy had more severe side effects, including neurological side effects and Raynaud-like phenomena, than men who were not treated with ...


Estrogen receptor-alpha, breast cancer patients and tamoxifen response

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have found evidence of a statistically significant survival benefit from adjuvant tamoxifen among patients whose estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors had high levels of phosphorylation of ER-alpha; at serine-118 ...


Genetic changes shown to be important indicators for disease progression in cervical cancer patients

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Anti-estrogens may offer protection against lung cancer mortality

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created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anti-estrogens as therapy for breast cancer may also reduce the risk of death from lung cancer, according to study results presented at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held here Dec. 9-13, 2009.


Cancer patients want honesty, compassion from their oncologist

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What do patients want from their radiation oncologists? The most significant preference is that more than one-third of female cancer patients (37 percent) prefer to have their hands held by their radiation oncologists during ...



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