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British bride Lizzie Griffiths chose between her bearded dragon and her future husband. The lizard came first, so he could have chemotherapy on his facial tumors.
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A new two-part therapy combining a modified sugar molecule with two cancer killing drugs causes many types of cancer cells to "commit suicide" by apoptosis, a type of programmed cell death, researchers at UC San Diego and Kyushu University wrote.
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Oncology nurses deal with life and death while caring for cancer patients. Some of them may be exposed to the highly toxic drugs that kill cancer cells but are dangerous to healthy individuals.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got a seemingly unusual support in his fight against cancer after supporters shaved their heads in solidarity with the leader.
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The most stubborn and deadly of cancerous tumors feature stem cells of their own design, and now scientists worldwide are working on eradicating these metastasizing factory cells.
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Chemotherapy, a standard form of cancer treatment, has a bad reputation. So bad, that quite a few people prefer to forgo it. But is it really that bad? The indomitable world-renowned James Randi talks about his experiences in a video clip on YouTube.
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A new study shows the combination of chemotherapy with standard tamoxifen treatment improves cancer survival of older women.
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A new antibody guided anti-cancer drug has shown encouraging Phase 2 clinical trial results, shrinking or stabilizing HER2-positive metastatic cancerous breast tumors in about half of the cases.
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Researchers are saying that patients with Stage VI colorectal cancer may benefit more from chemotherapy than from surgical removal of the tumors.
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A University of California Riverside study describes how naturally occurring apigenin facilitates the death of cancer cells.
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 Children born to women receiving chemotherapy during the middle and end pregnancy show normal development, European researchers have found.
Chemotherapy for breast cancer can be safe during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is now free of cancer after successful chemotherapy treatment in Brazil, his doctors say.
While it can often work wonders against invading cancer cells, chemotherapy can also bring on very undesirable side effects, such as hair loss, nausea and vomiting.
A new study found that very few women in their childbearing years with breast cancer opt to preserve their eggs before going through chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
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Recent research by Dr.Jes Gitz Holler (University of Copenhagen) suggests that a compound isolated from a plant located...
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