Posts Tagged ‘Cancer Treatments’

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. [...]

Americans Doubt Insurance Plans Will Cover Cancer

9th July 2009 by admin No Comments

Fewer than half of all Americans trust that their health insurance plans would pay for the full costs of cancer treatment and nearly two-thirds falsely believe Medicare would not pay anything, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Nearly 70 percent of more than 1,000 adults surveyed said they were “very concerned” about paying for cancer [...]

New Class of Drugs Promising for BRCA-Related Cancers

9th July 2009 by admin 1 Comment

New drugs called PARP inhibitors appear to have a lot of promise against hereditary cancers caused by BRCA1 and BRCA2 cell mutations.
PARP inhibitors work by blocking the action of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, an enzyme that helps repair DNA. In certain tumor cells, such as those from BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, blocking this enzyme can [...]

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 [...]