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Chemotherapy and exercise: The right dose of workout helps side effects
6/06/2016
Researchers at the University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Institute discovered something simple and inexpensive to reduce neuropathy in hands and feet due to chemotherapy - exercise.
Diabetes drug Metformin holds promise for cancer treatment and prevention
6/06/2016
Use of Metformin - commonly used as the front-line treatment for type 2 diabetes - improves survival for some breast cancer patients, and shows promise as a treatment for patients diagnosed with...
Immunotherapy effective against some types of sarcoma
6/06/2016
An existing cancer immunotherapy drug reduces tumor size in some types of rare connective tissue cancers, called sarcomas, report researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI).
Oliver Sacks' rare eye disease gives rise to new strategy for treating difficult cancers
6/06/2016
Eye cancer took the life of author and neurologist Oliver Sacks last year, bringing attention to the rare and deadly disease.
Trial shows improved 5 year survival for pancreatic cancer patients
6/06/2016
An extra 13 percent of pancreatic cancer patients will live for at least five years when given a combination of chemotherapy drugs compared with standard treatment, according to the results of a...
Nanoparticle sunscreens effective and safe to use
6/05/2016
There has been public concern about the safety of nanoparticle sunscreens, but the available evidence indicates that they are both effective and safe to use, according to a Perspective published in...
Pancreatic cancer treatment: blocking key protein that protects tumors
6/05/2016
Researchers show that the protein CXCR2 helps pancreatic cancer evade and then exploit the immune system, and blocking it stops tumors spreading in mice.
Having radiotherapy once a day for six and a half weeks or twice a day for three weeks - when combined with chemotherapy - is equally good at treating small cell lung cancer that hasn't spread.
New pre-surgery technique may make colostomy bags redundant for emergency bowel cancer patients
6/04/2016
An expandable tube that unblocks the bowel before surgery could lead to fewer cancer patients being diagnosed as emergencies and needing a colostomy bag.
Study shows why immune-boosting therapy doesn't work for everyone with widespread melanoma
6/04/2016
Potential exists to make more patients responsive to advanced treatments.Patients who don't respond to treatments that use their own immune cells to destroy tumors, called tumor infiltrating...