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Bride postpones wedding so pet lizard can get chemo

London - 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.
In the Media by Anne Sewell - 9 comments

Poisoning cancer cells with sugar

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.

Outpatient cancer nurses may be exposed to toxic drugs

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.
In the Media by KJ Mullins - 1 comment

Chavez supporters shave hair in solidarity

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got a seemingly unusual support in his fight against cancer after supporters shaved their heads in solidarity with the leader.
In the Media by Samuel Okocha

Scientists focus on cancer stem cells in war against the disease

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.
In the Media by Michael Krebs

Chemotherapy may not be as terrible as you have been told

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.
In the Media by Bart B. Van Bockstaele - 1 comment

Chemo boosts cancer survival in older women

A new study shows the combination of chemotherapy with standard tamoxifen treatment improves cancer survival of older women.
In the Media by Gordon K. Chan

Clinical trial of antibody-guided breast cancer drug promising

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.

Surgery may not be best first approach to colorectal cancer

Researchers are saying that patients with Stage VI colorectal cancer may benefit more from chemotherapy than from surgical removal of the tumors.
In the Media by KJ Mullins

How Eating Fruit, Vegetables Can Improve Cancer Patients’ Chemotherapy Response

A University of California Riverside study describes how naturally occurring apigenin facilitates the death of cancer cells.
In the Media by Bob Ewing - 8 comments
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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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Anti-microbial from rainforest plant

Recent research by Dr.Jes Gitz Holler (University of Copenhagen) suggests that a compound isolated from a plant located...
Apr 25, 2012 in  New Science by Tim Sandle - 1 comment

FDA approves first anemia drug in over a decade

The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it has approved the first new anemia drug in more than a...
Mar 29, 2012 in  Health by Tim Sandle

On Dying

For as long as man has existed, there has been religion. In Denmark at the time of the Vikings, we had Odin and Thor....
Mar 27, 2012 by Joseph Power

Cancer Patients Hopes

Nairobi Nairobi, February 29, 2012 by Kosiyae...
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Finally, Gail gets some pain relief

Since we came home from our Hospital/Hotel adventure on Saturday, things have been more or less quiet. Over the...
Feb 22, 2012 in  Health by Bill Schmalfeldt - 2 comments
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