Archive for the ‘Cancer Treatment’ Category

Doctor Uses Stem Cells to Fill Cancer Scars

17th February 2010 by admin No Comments

When doctors perform cancer surgery, they often remove so much tissue that it leaves serious indentations — altering a person’s appearance.
If you saw Hersel Mikelian’s face now, you’d never know he used to have a gaping hole on the right side of his face.
“I was very sad. I was very angry that the doctors previously [...]

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Schoolgirl Dies After Cervical Cancer Vaccination

29th September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Although no link has yet been made between the girl’s death and the HPV vaccine, the batch has been quarantined. Photograph: Voisin/Phanie/Rex Features
An urgent investigation has been launched after a 14-year-old girl died shortly after receiving a cervical cancer vaccination at her school.
Natalie Morton was a pupil at the Blue Coat Church of England School [...]

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Researchers Struggle to Understand Breast Cancer’s Racial Gap

29th September 2009 by admin No Comments

Breast cancer occurs more often in white women than in black women in the United States, but it kills more black women than white.
This is known as the “racial gap” of breast cancer, a provocative topic for cancer researchers hoping to save lives.
Several studies released in the past year have tried to figure out why [...]

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Advanced Skin, Brain Cancers Improve With Experimental Hedgehog Drug

3rd September 2009 by admin 3 Comments

People with advanced skin and brain cancers — untreatable by current methods — improve after treatment with a new oral drug called a hedgehog inhibitor.
Hedgehog is one of the hottest new anticancer targets. During embryonic development and childhood, the signaling molecule nicknamed hedgehog spurs growth processes. But the body turns it off during adulthood. When [...]

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To Treat Ovarian Cancer More Successfully, First We Must Find the Tumors

29th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Just because ovarian tumors aren’t detectable doesn’t mean they aren’t life-threatening. By the time women and their doctors are aware of their existence, treatment options are often limited. The ability to detect such tumors early would go a long way toward eliminating the specter of ovarian cancer that haunts many women. Ultimately, that might become the case.
Researchers at Stanford University [...]

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How to Control Cancer Pain

19th July 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Can cancer pain be controlled?
Cancer pain can be controlled in almost every case. This does not mean that you have no pain, but that it stays at a level that you can bear.
Cancer and its treatments can be painful. A tumor that presses on bones, nerves, or organs can cause pain. [...]

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Endoscopic Surgery As Effective Open Surgery For Nasal Cancer

7th July 2009 by admin No Comments

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that endoscopic surgery is a valid treatment option for treating esthesioneuroblastoma (cancer of the nasal cavity), in addition to traditional open surgery and nonsurgical treatments.
Esthesioneuroblastoma is a very rare cancer that develops in the upper part of the nasal cavity and thought to derive from [...]

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New Drug Could Work Against Leukemia

7th July 2009 by admin 1 Comment

A new targeted therapy shows promise in treating acute myeloid leukemia, a highly treatment-resistant blood cancer, according to a new study.
Researchers created an antibody (7G3) that recognizes and binds to a molecule called CD123, which is expressed at high levels on leukemia stem cells (LSCs), but not on normal blood cells. LSCs are cells that [...]

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Novartis Drug Combo Cuts Pancreatic Tumour Size

24th June 2009 by admin No Comments

A combination of two drugs from Novartis AG (NOVN.VX) cut the size of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours in more than 80 percent of patients in a mid-stage study, the Swiss group said on Wednesday. Patients who received a once-daily pill Afinitor in combination with Sandostatin LAR had no progression in their disease for a median of [...]

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Lab Study Finds Protein That May Inhibit Cancer Spread

22nd June 2009 by admin No Comments

A protein produced by certain kinds of tumors inhibits the spread of cancer and could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment, researchers say.
Currently, there is no approved therapy for inhibiting or treating metastasis — the migration of cancer cells from the original cancer site to other parts of the body. Metastasis is one of [...]

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