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Fight Goes On For Cancer Patients
Head and neck cancer patients have moved one step further in their campaign to get treatment offered locally.
Cancer Head Including Neck Support group (CHINS) are fighting to get all chemotherapy and radiotherapy returned to Queen’s - after being promised it would be brought back following the settling-in period at the new Romford hospital.
Since then, patients […]
Cuba’s Center of Molecular Immunology Approved Lung Cancer Vaccine
Cuba has approved what is believed to be the world’s first registered lung cancer vaccine.
Researchers at Cuba’s Center of Molecular Immunology announced this week that the therapeutic vaccine CimVax EGF extends life with few side effects.
The drug has been approved for clinical trials in the United States, but its use there is at least two […]
Cervical Cancer a Silent Killer
Till two years back, Sharada Devi’s world revolved around her four children and husband. It was a mundane existence, but Sharada Devi was happy. When she started bleeding in between her menstrual periods, she did not panic.
As the bleeding continued, the local doctor asked her to go to Delhi for treatment. She was clueless […]
New Therapy Shows Promise For Fighting Treatment-Resistant Cancer Cells
A gene radiotherapy system that detects and treats cancer cells that are resistant to traditional forms of chemotherapy and radiation showed success in the laboratory and could eventually prove beneficial for cancer patients, according to researchers at SNM’s 55th Annual Meeting. The new system targets oxygen-deficient hypoxic cancer cells that have activated a gene known […]
Modulated Radiotherapy Can Cut Treatment Time For Cancer Of The Rectum Without Increasing Toxicity
Application of modulated radiotherapy in the treatment of bowel cancer can enhance the results obtained by means of other conventional therapies. The technique has managed to apply the radiation in a way most adapted to the tumoral volume and risk areas, while minimising irradiation to healthy tissue. This radiotherapy procedure involves the administration of higher […]
Cancer Boy’s Stories Help Charity
A nine-year-old boy who survived life-threatening cancer has written two books to raise cash for a charity.
Sam Viney was given a 25% chance of survival when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer when he was just 18 months old.
But Sam, from the Vale of Glamorgan, survived after months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy […]
Young Hodgkin Survivors Face Later Risk of Second Cancers
People who survived Hodgkin disease when they were children or adolescents are much more likely than other people to develop certain cancers, says a new study.
Hodgkin disease (HD), a cancer of the lymph nodes, has a cure rate of more than 90 percent, but survivors may be at future risk of developing second cancers other […]
Young Hodgkin Survivors Face Later Risk of Second Cancers
People who survived Hodgkin disease when they were children or adolescents are much more likely than other people to develop certain cancers, says a new study.
Hodgkin disease (HD), a cancer of the lymph nodes, has a cure rate of more than 90 percent, but survivors may be at future risk of developing second cancers other […]
Laser Therapy a New Option for Vocal-Cord Cancers
A new laser treatment for early vocal-cord cancer targets tumor blood vessels while preserving and restoring patients’ voices, according to Massachusetts General Hospital researchers, who noted that radiotherapy or surgery can permanently damage vocal quality.
Details about this new pulsed Potassium-Titanyl-Phosphate (KTP) laser treatment, which has been used in more than 25 patients, were presented at […]