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Vince Mastracco, the upbeat creator and host of "Golf Talk" on Saturday mornings on KHTK (1140 AM), is feeling closer to par after a summer of chemotherapy to fight off breast cancer. "I'm coming along. I'm starting to feel...
Nov 25 2009 by Steffan Rhys, Western Mail FORMER Wales football star John Hartson revealed yesterday he had to learn to walk again after cancer devastated his body. The 34-year-old is recovering from chemotherapy after being...
Submitted by Deborah Mitchell on Nov 24th, 2009 Women with breast cancer who receive the chemotherapy drug Taxol (paclitaxel) have a significantly increased risk of developing chronic neuropathic pain. The new report comes from...
The gene in question is a suicide gene, called "gene E," which leads to the death of tumor cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery show "limited"...
Scientists have begun a three-year study to analyse why cancer patients become resistant to treatments designed to fight the disease. A research team from Kingston University has been awarded £99,000 to investigate why some...
Three quarters of cancer patients and survivors treated with chemotherapy suffer insomnia or sleep disorders that often become chronic conditions, hindering patients' ability to fully recover, according to scientists at the...
A potential new drug for lung cancer has eliminated tumours in 50% of mice in a new study published in the journal Cancer Research. In the animals, the drug also stopped lung cancer tumours from growing and becoming resistant...
A Fort Worth woman says the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer was the scariest day of her life. Jolanta Bublewicz chose a controversial form of treatment that doesn't involve chemotherapy. She knew the risks, but...
A bowel cancer drug which could help prolong patients' lives was rejected by the health watchdog yesterday as it was not considered cost effective. Avastin is suitable for patients with advanced (metastatic) bowel cancer, where...
Many patients with lung, liver, pancreatic and brain cancers are considered inoperable because removing the tumour could damage other vital organs. I was due to have chemotherapy in the new year to try to shrink the tumour, but...
