Chemo

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• Researching Neratinib

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 130
  I have an appointment with Dr. Lee this afternoon to discuss neratinib further. He is just back from the breast oncology meeting in San Antonio, and he should have information to share about neratinib from that meeting.  Ive spent the morning reading through some of the info that readers had forwarded to me, and I ...
  4 hours ago

• Cancer patient stranded after string of cancelled flights

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 488
  Left to right: Panos Vikis, Nicola McAndrew, Patricia and Alison Vikis By Cara Sulieman A CANCER patient was left facing a nightmare before Christmas after a catalogue of travel disasters. First Patricia Vikis and her husband Panos were left stranded in Cyprus last Wednesday after the collapse of what was ...
  6 hours ago

• Mrs Chemobrain Obama-head lives to fight another day

  
  Not wrong, just different — Authority: 114
  Monday morning last week was a low spot. At breakfast, I was reading 9-yo’s weekly Friday newsletter. I learned that he was to take to school a cardboard box covered in brown paper, with doors cut in the front to make it into a wardrobe, for a fun class activity about the book they’ve just finished (guess which ...
  18 hours ago

• When you were a baby, you survived this…

  
  Sweetiegirlz's Weblog — Authority: 126
  One inch above or one inch below would’ve killed you.  The fact that it rolled right over your stomach and no other place on you,  saved you.    You were meant to survive.  All my life,  You’ve always held a place of strength and fight in my eyes.      I know this treatment is sucking for you… I ...
  1 day ago

• Has anyone had any side effects from cancer radiation?

  
  The Word Is Hope — Authority: 139
  I was fine during chemo but after radiation, I became depressed, gained weight and don’t have alot of motivation to do things.
  2 days ago

• Chemo’s Toxicity To Brain, Possible Treatment Revealed By UR Study

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 162
  Researchers have developed a novel animal model showing that four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells, and that the condition could be partially reversed with [...]
  4 days ago

• If Patients Can’t Pay For Their Prescription medication, What Should They Do?

  
  Retirement — Authority: 129
  Prescription medicine help is available to millions of Americans. You’ve doubtless heard or seen ads or commercials that persons could receive their medications for free, or at a low cost. Have you seen the Help For Prescription bus? TV star Montel Williams talks about an organization that assists patients get ...
  4 days ago

• Chemo drugs may lead to cognitive decline

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec 18 (ANI): A new study from University of Rochester Medical Centre has shown that four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells, eventually leading to a decline in cognitive function.However, researchers suggest the condition could be partially reversed with the growth ...
  4 days ago

• A Christmas Gift?

  
  The Checkout Line — Authority: 124
  Dear Judy, My father-in-law lives about 4 hours away, and seems very ill (major organ removed because of cancer, radiation for 16 weeks, 4 rounds of chemotherapy). His wife is adament she’ll take care of everything: no need for a nurse,, no need for a house cleaner, no need for one of us to come up and give her a ...
  4 days ago

• UR study reveals chemo’s toxicity to brain, possible treatment

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 162
  Researchers have developed a novel animal model showing that four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells, and that the condition could be partially reversed with [...]
  5 days ago

• The Best Holiday Gifts for a Girlfriend with Breast Cancer

  
  Girlfriend Celebrations — Authority: 114
  For the healthy, the holiday season can be hectic and harried. For the “Breast Cancer Warrior,” it’s all that and more. As a Breast Cancer Warrior  since November 2005, our girlfriend Brooke Jones knows that holiday gift giving can be challenging. After learning that she had become the 5th of 6 women ...
  5 days ago

• A Few Hit’s and a Miss!

  
  Mom~E~Centric — Authority: 136
  X~Strike One~XI was in the Wal-Mart Zone today.   It was [...] A Few Hit’s and a Miss! is a post from: Mom~E~Centric
  5 days ago

• Ashes or Phoenix?

  
  Great Scots MacBlog — Authority: 118
  A wise man says: “Disasters may well change us deeply, but they will pass. We must keep to our deeper convictions and remember our goals. Whether we remain ash or become the phoenix is up to us.” Although it’s tempting to rail at and resent disaster, there’s little use in doing so. An aggressive cancer ...
  6 days ago

• Why do cancer cells pump out the chemo ?

  
  The Word Is Hope — Authority: 139
  Why do cancer cells grow pumps that defeat the chemo by pumping it out of the cells before it can work? How else can cancer cells defeat the chemo? If the chemo is still working can a person [...]
  6 days ago

• Playing Beauty Shop With Connie

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 130
  Yesterday after our long walk in the rain, Constant the Wonder Dog and I played "beauty shop" together.  My hair has started to come back in--its at the peach fuzz stage right now--and I decided I wanted to color it, because the color was kind of a no-color. So I bought a box of hair dye at the drug store. I ...
  1 week ago

• Nanoprobes hit targets in tumors, could lessen chemo side effects (Science Daily)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  Tiny nanoprobes have shown to be effective in delivering cancer drugs more directly to tumor cells — mitigating the damage to nearby healthy cells — and new research has shown that the nanoprobes are getting the drugs to right cellular compartments. (get the story…) Related items Nanoprobes hit targets in ...
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• Nanoprobes hit targets in tumors, could lessen chemo side effects (EurekAlert!)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  ( Purdue University ) Tiny nanoprobes have shown to be effective in delivering cancer drugs more directly to tumor cells — mitigating the damage to nearby healthy cells — and Purdue University research has shown that the nanoprobes are getting the drugs to right cellular compartments. (get the story…) ...
  1 week ago

• Nanoprobes hit targets in tumors, could lessen chemo side effects

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 162
  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.Tiny nanoprobes have shown to be effective in delivering cancer drugs more directly to tumor cellsmitigating the damage to nearby healthy cellsand Purdue University research has shown that [...]
  1 week ago

• Hair

  
  Not wrong, just different — Authority: 114
  Well, the good news after my previous post is that apparently chemobrain isn’t always permanent. It might only be with me for a year or so. Personally, my guess is that people just get very good at dealing with it, so that when a year has gone by, and a research scientist asks them if it has got better, they say ...
  1 week ago

• Head Shave

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 527
  I woke up this morning to my right eye almost glued shut. I had an allergic reaction to something and my eye is super puffy. This use to happen all the time last year and I thought it was because I was allergic to rice. It hadn’t happened in quite some time so then I thought it was probably tied in with the cancer ...
  1 week ago

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