Infertility: new avenues for understanding the deleterious effects of chemotherapy
While infertility affects one in four couples in France, French researchers have just understood why chemotherapy reduces the chances of ...
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Childhood cancer: what are the consequences in adulthood?
Children who have survived cancer are more likely to have health problems in adulthood. It depends on the type of ...
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Breast cancer: we now know how to avoid unnecessary chemotherapy
Almost half of women with breast cancer who have received chemotherapy could safely avoid it. THE ESSENTIAL Genomic signatures make ...
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Chemotherapy: keeping your eyebrows thanks to dermopigmentation, it’s possible and recommended
Dermapigmentation is recommended for women going to undergo chemotherapy, to keep eyebrows with a structured line despite the treatment. Even ...
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Breast cancer: “The goal is to completely replace chemotherapy with targeted treatments”
On the occasion of Pink October, a month dedicated to breast cancer awareness, oncologist Mahasti Saghatchian tells us about the ...
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A promising new treatment for mesothelioma
A transarterial chemoperfusion treatment shows very promising and effective results in treating mesothelioma, a devastating cancer of the pleura, the ...
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Prof. Henri Pujol: “Telling safely which women may not need chemotherapy”
Professor Henri Pujol explains how the genomic signature can help limit unnecessary chemotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer.The treatment ...
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Cancer: physical exercise improves the morale of those over 60 in chemotherapy
While cancer and its treatments like chemotherapy are known to take a toll on patients' moods, researchers are showing that ...
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Cancer and chemotherapy: a 3D sponge to absorb excess medication
Researchers have succeeded in developing a 3D sponge capable of absorbing the surplus of drugs released into the body by ...
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Operable lung cancer: a new treatment against recurrence
Good news: combining immunotherapy and chemotherapy before lung cancer surgery reduces both the risk of recurrence and death, according to ...
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Pancreatic cancer: the ketogenic diet could increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy
A recent American study highlights the benefits of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Adopting this mode ...
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At 22, she’s stuck in a child’s body due to rare brain cancer
The parents of Shauna Rae, a young American, discovered that she had a brain tumor at 6 months. Aged 22 ...
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Cancer: a protein would limit cardiac damage due to chemotherapy
Norwegian researchers have identified a protein, called "Neuron-derived orphan receptor 1 (NOR-1)", which has been shown to be effective in ...
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Jean-Pierre Pernaut affected by lung cancer: what treatments can he benefit from?
While the former presenter of the 1 p.m. news from TF1 Jean-Pierre Pernaut has just announced that he has lung ...
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We now know why myeloid leukemias are resistant to treatment
People with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) unfortunately often relapse, despite intensive treatment. Understanding why is essential to be able to ...
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Pelé released from the hospital: what is the colon cancer from which he suffers?
Brazilian soccer star Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pelé, has been discharged from hospital but will continue chemotherapy after undergoing ...
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Pelé released from the hospital: what is the colon cancer from which he suffers?
Brazilian soccer star Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pelé, has been discharged from hospital but will continue chemotherapy after undergoing ...
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Cervical cancer: immunotherapy prolongs patient survival
When they receive treatment with immunotherapy in addition to their standard treatment, patients with recurrent, persistent or metastatic cervical cancer ...
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Prostate cancer: a new treatment saves two and a half years of survival
Combining two hormone therapies and chemotherapy halves the risk of tumor progression in prostate cancer. THE ESSENTIAL With some 50,000 ...
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World Ovarian Cancer Day: “significant progress in treatment”
On the occasion of World Ovarian Cancer Day, Why Doctor collected the words of Dr. Jean-Claude Darmon, gynecological and breast ...
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Advanced rectal cancer: new hope for treatment for patients
Two-stage chemotherapy increases the chances of relapse-free survival by 31% of people with severe rectal cancer. A major step forward. ...
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Chemotherapy: how cooling the skull prevents hair loss
For some years now, cooling helmets have been offered to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. These tools can slow hair loss ...
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Hormone-dependent breast cancer: the hope of a new androgen therapy
Androgens – male sex hormones – could potentially be used as a treatment for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, a ...
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How cancer cells “hibernate” to escape chemotherapy
When they feel in danger, cancer cells go to sleep, as bears can do in winter. They then devour their ...
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Metastatic breast cancer: surgery increases chances of survival
Faced with metastatic breast cancer, surgery, in addition to chemotherapy or radiotherapy, improves post-cancer survival, especially when performed after treatment. ...
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Pancreatic cancer: the solution sought in “survivors” like Judge Ruth Ginsburg, who died 11 years after diagnosis
The prognosis is often very poor in pancreatic cancer and very limited survival. Yet with early diagnosis, chemotherapy and treatment ...
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Covid-19 and cancer: the League against cancer warns about access to care and delays in screening
Doctors from the League Against Cancer are already worried about delays in the care of cancer patients when the second ...
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Pediatric cancers: Chemotherapy changes heart cells
One in five children who survive cancer develops heart failure. THE ESSENTIAL 20% of children treated with drugs called anthracyclines ...
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Cancer: treating it using the cell’s self-destruction mechanism
To circumvent chemotherapy, heavy and sometimes ineffective, a new therapy aims to directly attack the cancerous tissue by activating the ...
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Pancreatic cancer: a promising new chemotherapy cocktail
Tested in phase I and II, a new chemotherapy treatment comprising paclitaxel injected into the abdomen has been shown to ...
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