Chemotherapy

                   

Boise State research breakthrough may be 'magic bullet' for cancer treatment

idahostatesman.com     6 hrs ago          

Boise State researchers have made a breakthrough in cancer treatment that may provide the “magic bullet” for the debilitating effects of chemotherapy. This nanobiotechnology group is led by Boise State physics professor...                    

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New Therapies Increasingly Being Used To Treat Liver Cancer

medicalnewstoday.com     10 hrs ago          

According to Millennium Research Group's (MRG) US Markets for Transcatheter Embolization and Occlusion Devices 2008 report, embolization particle therapies such as radioembolization spheres are increasingly being used to...                    

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Vitamin C infusions tested as cancer treatment

wbir.com     13 hrs ago   1 related          

New research from the National Institutes of Health has found that vitamin C may help to reduce the growth of cancerous tumors. Arlindo Olivera, 59, was told to go home and die after doctors felt there was nothing else...                    

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Oak Valley concert benefits musician with lymphoma

tennessean.com     20 hrs ago          

Singer, others on Sunday bill By HARRIET VAUGHAN • Staff Writer • August 29, 2008 FRANKLIN — The spunky Sarah Conley thought at 23 years old she would be finishing graduate school and on to the next adventure in life....                    

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Cell Genesys Ends Prostate Cancer Study (at TheStreet.com)

yahoo.com     23 hrs ago   15 related          

shares plummeted Wednesday after the company said it stopped a late-stage study for its prostate cancer vaccine G-VAX after a higher rate of chemotherapy patients taking the drug died than did those in a control group....                    

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Salon Owner Gives Cancer Patients Confidence

wcbstv.com     yesterday   8 related          

There are many trials and tribulations that come when women find out they have breast cancer, but one of the things women fear most is losing their hair during chemotherapy treatments. Now, one Manhattan salon is helping...                    

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Variation of normal protein could be key to resistance to common cancer drug

physorg.com     yesterday   6 related          

Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UC SD) in La Jolla have found evidence explaining why a common chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, may not always work for every cancer patient....                    

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The Harsh Values of Health Care Rationing

wesleyjsmith.com     yesterday          

The Oregonian is trying to defend the Oregon Medicaid rationing scheme and its offer to pay for the assisted suicides of patients for whom it denied life-extending chemotherapy. The idea behind the Oregon scheme was to...                    

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Football starlet's cancer fight

manchestereveningnews.co.uk     yesterday   2 related          

A TALENTED young footballer who was signed up by Manchester City's youth team has lost a leg to a rare form of cancer. Jamie Tregaskiss, 13, is now having chemotherapy after being struck down by the aggressive disease. As...                    

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Schools honor Little League champs

honoluluadvertiser.com     yesterday   4 related          

This time, the theme from "Rocky" fit perfectly. The underdogs had won the world championship and one player stood next to his kid brother, a Waipi'o baseball cap covering a 5-year-old head left bare by chemotherapy. The...                    

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