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Original Technorati articles tagged “chemotherapy”

• in Technorati Women
  Side Effects Cause Many Breast Cancer Patients to Stop Therapy
  A class of drug used to treat breast cancer causes side effects which cause many women to cease treatment.
  by jenna3967 / on Dec 12, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  FDA Rescinds Approval of Avastin for Breast Cancer Treatment
  The Food and Drug Administration has revoked its approval of the drug Avastin the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
  by jenna3967 / on Nov 18, 2011
• in Family
  Promising leukemia drug provides boost for Micromet
  Micromet's new drug gives hope to patient's with an often deadly form of leukemia.
  by jenna3967 / on Jun 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “chemotherapy”

 

• Alternative Cancer Treatment From All Over the World

  
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  Chemotherapy, radiation oncology and surgery are just some of the popular treatment for cancer. These treatments have things to consider. Expense and effectiveness are the common things to think about when getting a cancer treatment. In terms of expense, there is definitely a large amount of money involved with ...
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• Develop a Healthy Immune System before Chemotherapy Treatment

  
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  Chemotherapy involves the use of chemical agents to kill any suspected cancer cells in the body. Cancer cells grow faster than normal body cells, which is one way the agent is able to identify cancer formations. Unfortunately, chemotherapy effects can mistake normal cells as cancerous. Chemotherapy would be lower the ...
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• Scientists Considering Caffeine As An Alternative Chemotherapy Treatment

  
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  Following a previous study, which showed that caffeine inhibits the pathways in cancer cells that control DNA repair, scientists at the University of Alberta are searching for new ways to apply caffeine’s deadly effects on cancer cells. Zintro experts discuss the possibility of using caffeine as an effective ...
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• Teacher copes with cancer with students support

  
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  By Staci Waites Its no secret that cancer treatment can cause changes in your appearance. Experiencing those changes in front of middle school students, however, can be a challenge. In addition to being a mother, wife, sister and daughter with cancer, I am also a middle school teacher.  That means I had 400 ...
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• New Computerized Pump For Chemotherapy Reduces Side Effects

  
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  A portable, computerized pump small enough to fit in a fanny pack is changing the way cancer patients receive their chemotherapy. This technology allows cancer patients to receive their chemotherapy at a time when it will be most effective and least toxic. According to pioneering chronobiologist Dr. William Hrushesky, ...
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• Deconstructing another Stanislaw Burzynski cancer “success story”

  
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  A key pillar of the Stanislaw Burzynski antineoplaston marketing machine, a component of the marketing strategy without which his clinic would not be able to attract nearly as many desperate cancer patients to Houston for either his antineoplaston therapy (now under a temporary shutdown by the FDA that, if science ...
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• Before You Choose Chemotherapy

  
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  Cancer is tragic, and what is even more tragic is that people are so scared when they hear that they have cancer that they go straight to chemotherapy. Cancer scares people so badly that most of the time, they don’t really give themselves time to learn all about their treatment options. But stop and think [...]
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• Hair Care Tips During And After Chemotherapy

  
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  In this article, we hope to share with you the many aspects that this important subject has to offer you. Chemotherapy is a groovy innovation in the behavior of scourge. It has saved the lives of millions of people to meeting. Indeed it is one of the most important checkup inventions of the 20th century. [...]
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• Chemotherapy Hair Loss Prevention – Battling Side Effects

  
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  A cancer patient often finds that he has more than just cancer to worry over. When undergoing chemotherapy treatment, he has to worry about other side effects like hair loss. Chemotherapy is supposed to fight cancer. So why is it that hair loss occurs during treatment? Chemotherapy attempts to kill cancer cells with ...
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• Clarksville Students at the Academy for Academic Excellence Turn the Tables on the Staff

  
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  Joe Pitts Clarksville, TN – We all know how teachers and staff are constantly helping our students every day. The students at the Academy for Academic Excellence, however, are turning the tables on a staff member. These elementary students have created six paintings, like those shown below, to sell. The ...
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• Questions To Ask Your Doctor About Chemotherapy Treatments

  
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  Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with drugs that can destroy cancer cells. These drugs often are called “anti-cancer” drugs. Your doctor will recommend an appropriate chemotherapy plan based on your medical history, type of cancer, extent of cancer, current state of health, and updated research. Many people ...
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• Overcoming Dry Mouth Caused by Chemotherapy

  
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  Chemotherapy is often the only method for treating the disease known as cancer. The introduction of radiation into the body, however, can have a brutal effect on it. One of the odd, yet difficult to deal with side effects, is extreme dry mouth. Extreme dry mouth causes by radiation treatments for cancer is known as ...
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• Preventing Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia

  
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  Cancer chemotherapy can cause peripheral neuropathy—nerve damage often resulting in pain and muscle weakness in the arms and legs. Now, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered that chemo also induces an insidious type of nerve damage inside bone marrow that can cause ...
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• Emil Frei III, Who Put Cancer Cures in Reach, Dies at 89

  
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  Dr. Frei was an oncologist whose trailblazing use of combination chemotherapy helped make certain cancers curable for the first time.        
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• Dealing With Nausea and Vomiting When Undergoing Chemotherapy For Ovarian Cancer

  
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  When ovarian cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, nausea and vomiting are the most commonly made complaints. Even as the delivery methods of the chemotherapy drugs may vary, by and large nausea is the universally experienced side effect, closely followed by vomiting. What makes this side effect so miserable for ...
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• The Chemotherapy Effects and the Breakdown of How Chemo Reacts on the Cells Within Your Body

  
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  Know exactly what is going on when it comes to chemo. Did you know that some people may experience chemotherapy effects and some people will not experience any effects at all? The time it takes to get over a side effect varies from person to person. Chemotherapy can be referred to the treatment of a [...]
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• Using Chemotherapy to Treat Cancer – Is There a Better Way?

  
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  These days people spend more money then ever for prescription drugs and it seems for every health problem doctors suggest some kind of a drug. So if doctors suggest drugs for most health problems, then certainly these drugs should be very effective, right? Well, if you think about how many people are using ...
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• Cancer-Fighting Drug Avastin Linked To Flesh-Eating Bacteria

  
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  Cancer TherapyAn article in CBC News reports that Avastin, the cancer-fighting drug, has been linked to a flesh-eating disease, necrotizing fasciitis.The CBC reports:The agency issued a warning in conjunction with the drugs manufacturer, Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., echoing an earlier one from the U.S. Food and Drug ...
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• Carboplatin Chemotherapy Method

  
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  One of the techniques employed to cure cancer is chemotherapy. The anti cancer drugs are inserted into the body and they spread all over the body to destroy the cancer cells present inside the body. Chemotherapy employs so many drugs for this purpose. One of them is the Carboplatin chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is ...
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• Life, Interrupted: All in a Day’s Work

  
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  Dozens of chemotherapy treatments and one bone marrow transplant later, I wish I could say that I’ve mastered the art of not working.        
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