In Malnourished Cancer Patients, Oral Nutritional Interventions Improve Nutritional Intake And QOL
2/17/2012
Oral nutritional interventions help increase nutritional intake and improve some aspects of quality of life (QOL) in malnourished cancer patients or those who are at nutritional risk, but do not effect mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
New Method Makes It Easier To Treat Prostate And Pancreatic Cancer
2/17/2012
Laser light in combination with certain drugs - known as photodynamic therapy - can destroy cancer tumours, but is today used mostly to cure skin cancer. The reason that internal tumours are not treated with the method is that the technology does not exist to check that the precise amount of light is administered...
Researchers Identify Cycle Of Platelet Production In Ovarian Cancer Patients
2/17/2012
Highly elevated platelet levels fuel tumor growth and reduce the survival of ovarian cancer patients, an international team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer center reports in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Helping Patients Tackle Geographic Challenges To Access Clinical Trials
2/17/2012
As oncologists already know and newly diagnosed lung cancer patients learn, the kind of treatment given to patients is increasingly becoming dependent on the specific gene mutation present in the cancer...
Would Cancer Treatment Be Enhanced By Low Molecular Weight Heparin?
2/17/2012
For decades, the blood thinner heparin has been used to prevent and treat blood clots...
Would Cancer Treatment Be Enhanced By Low Molecular Weight Heparin?
2/17/2012
For decades, the blood thinner heparin has been used to prevent and treat blood clots...
Ovarian Cancer - Best Imaging Technique Revealed
2/16/2012
According to a study published in the journal Radiology, researchers from Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Center at the University of Cambridge, have determined that the best method to monitor how women with late-stage ovarian cancer are responding to treatment may be a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique...
How Much Do Nutritional Interventions Help Malnourished Cancer Patients?
2/16/2012
A study published February 15 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, reveals that oral nutritional interventions help malnourished cancer patients and individuals at nutritional risk improve some aspects of quality of life (QOL), as well as increase nutritional intake. However, the researchers found that these interventions did not affect mortality...
The Complexities Involved In End Of Life Care
2/16/2012
Everyone has to die one day, yet often the issue of death and dying still remains a taboo, despite the fact that palliative care is a major public health issue...
Ovarian Cancer - Best Imaging Technique Revealed
2/16/2012
According to a study published in the journal Radiology, researchers from Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Center at the University of Cambridge, have determined that the best method to monitor how women with late-stage ovarian cancer are responding to treatment may be a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique...