Green tea and chemotherapy: caution
February 5, 2009 - Taking green tea, brewed or as a supplement, would be contraindicated for people receiving chemotherapy with ...
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After chemotherapy, the immune system takes 9 months to recover
© iStockPhotosA new study has just looked at the long-term effects of chemotherapy on the immune system. This study shows ...
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Sending Chemotherapy to Bulgaria?
I live in Bulgaria. In recent years, the pharmacies here are increasingly better supplied with good medicines. But I'm looking ...
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How do you prepare for chemotherapy?
Make your own chemo plan! The diagnosis of cancer takes away all the ground from under your feet in one ...
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Lymphoma, 1st cancer in adolescents and still unrecognized
Lymphoma is the 1st cancer in adolescents and young adults. However, he is very little known. The France Lymphome Espoir ...
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Cancer: vitamin C would boost chemotherapy
Injected and in large quantities, vitamin C helped boost chemotherapy in mice and humans according to a study published in ...
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Breast cancer: a drug will improve the quality of life
The Roche laboratory has just obtained the green light from Europe to market a new form of Herceptin. Instead of ...
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Cancer: chemotherapy is not contraindicated in pregnant women
Several studies, presented at the ESMO congress, show that, after the 3rd month, a pregnant woman with cancer can undergo ...
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Chemotherapy: 2 million hospitalizations in 2011
The number of people treated with chemotherapy is increasing faster than the number of new cancer cases. In 2011, more ...
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Breast cancer: a treatment to improve the chances of pregnancy
To reduce the harmful effects of chemotherapy on fertility, hormonal treatment has been shown to be effective. Goserelin would allow ...
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Breast cancer: 11 women shave their heads in support of their friend
In solidarity with their friend with breast cancer, Gerdi McKenna, eleven South African women shaved their heads. The hair was ...
Read moreCancer treatments and fertility
In a joint report, the Biomedicine Agency and the National Cancer Institute emphasize the disparities in information regarding treatments that ...
Read moreChemotherapy and radiotherapy
Mitigating the side effects Nobody wishes it on themselves or anyone else, but it can still happen: you are told ...
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Breast cancer: 3 weeks of radiotherapy is enough
After breast cancer surgery, three weeks of radiation therapy would be as effective as the recommended five. And the side ...
Read moreMassage and therapeutic touch against the adverse effects of chemotherapy
May 24, 2002 - It was in the conservative context of a Minnesota hospital where massage is still seen as ...
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Skin aging due to chemotherapy
My 65-year-old wife is treated for metastases in breast cancer (mammary carcinoma metastases) with chemotherapy Xeloda (capecitabine) and heat treatment ...
Read moreTargeting cancer therapies
Targeted therapy and personalized medicine are the key words for victories against cancer Targeted therapy is a real revolution in ...
Read moreResveratrol in red wine could be an adjunct to chemotherapy
August 14, 2000 - Resveratrol, one of the antioxidants in red wine, has already been identified as the molecule explaining ...
Read moreThe pioneers of oncogeriatrics are making babies
A third of new cancer cases are diagnosed in people over 70 years old. To better manage these fragile patients, ...
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