She spoke at Genentech, a cancer research firm, exchanged e-mails with half
a dozen other cancer patients nationwide and was interviewed on NPR as a voice of nonsmoker lung - cancer sufferers.
Not exact matches
In the most recent of these reports (in the latest issue of Science), Dr. Jennifer Wargo, a surgeon and research scientist at M.D. Anderson, along with several
dozen colleagues at
other institutions, reveal that the composition of a
patient's gut microbiota can significantly influence whether he or she responds to an immune checkpoint inhibitor — the type of
cancer immunotherapy that releases the emergency brakes in the car analogy above.
A meta - analysis of
dozens of studies of traditional Chinese medicine and
other nonpharmacological interventions meant to improve
patients» quality of life affirms that these approaches, on the whole, help alleviate depression, fatigue, pain, anxiety, insomnia and gastrointestinal problems in Chinese
cancer patients.