Sentences with phrase «effects of cancer treatment»

In other cases, the effects of the cancer treatment are not so severe as to stop a traveler from taking a trip.

This young boy put up with 2 years of pain and grief because he had a classmate who had lost their hair from the side effects of cancer treatment.

Yoga has even been documented as a way to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Frequently, patients see Dr. Walker to strengthen immune function, decrease side effects of cancer treatment, gain or lose weight, address gastrointestinal issues, improve surgical and wound healing and to support quality of life concerns such as sleep, energy, mood and others.

He's gotten great results, elucidating the idea that fasting causes human cells and tissues to enter «survival mode» which allowed them to survive the withering effects of cancer treatment.

In honor of Movember, here's how an East - meets - West approach can help ease the symptoms and side effects of cancer treatment, and improve health overall.

There are also clinical trials that test new ways to stop cancer from recurring (coming back) or reduce the side effects of cancer treatment.

Potential long - term or late side effects of cancer treatment, bone marrow / stem cell transplant, symptoms and treatments

The analysis showed that the 15 - year death rate has decreased steadily since 1970 due in part to a reduction in deaths from the late effects of cancer treatment.

Evidence from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study suggests that changes in childhood cancer treatment have reduced deaths from the late effects of cancer treatment and extended the lives of childhood cancer survivors.

Future iterations of these lab - made particles could allow doctors to monitor the effects of cancer treatment in real time, researchers report the week of March 28 in the Proceedings of the...

Intensive, adaptive computer - based cognitive training presented as a video game helped improve working memory and other cognitive skills of childhood cancer survivors and holds hope for revolutionizing management of the late effects of cancer treatment.

The research, which appears in the journal The Lancet Oncology, should aid efforts to reduce and better manage the late effects of cancer treatment.

«This is why we're diligently working to employ several strategies that we hope will lead us to reaching our ultimate goal of developing the best therapy possible — a therapy that can be given to patients as a first line of defense, greatly reducing the side effects of cancer treatment and leading to a cure.»

The report «The effects of cancer treatment on reproductive functions; guidance on management» recommends that a national policy on sperm, egg and embryo storage is needed and that funding bodies develop equitable funding protocols for patients.

«The irreversible effects of cancer treatment on fertility will have long - term implications for men and women.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Patients at the Comprehensive Cancer Center donated their sore mouths, and the result was what the Yale Alumni Magazine described as «a hot new treatment for debilitating side effects of cancer treatment.»

However, there is no epidemiological study on the transgenerational effects of cancer treatments.

Urinary problems, including frequency, urgency, incontinence and pain, are common in patients with prostate cancer, due to the disease itself, and as a side effect of cancer treatments like radiation and prostate surgery.

Lymphedema: Help Your Clients Manage This Common Side Effect of Cancer Treatments, Are You Stuck in a Training Rut?

Other research found massage can prevent migraines and PMS and even help manage the side effects of cancer treatments.

The fasting period not only improved the effects of cancer treatments, it stimulated the regeneration of the immune system through the creation of progenitor stem cells.

This would lead us to believe fasting, exercise, and autophagy induction could prove to increase the effect of cancer treatment.

Not exact matches

But researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that a treatment originally designed for fighting cancer and diabetes could melt away fatty arterial plaque with a single dosing and reverse the effects of atherosclerosis, which can lead to multiple heart problems.

In addition to partnering with Celgene (celg) to better track negative drug side effects, IBM (ibm) is applying its cognitive computing AI technology to recommend cancer treatment in rural areas in the U.S., India, and China, where there is a dearth of oncologists, said Deborah DiSanzo, general manager for IBM Watson Health.

In effect, the couple charges they were fall guys for Glaxo and suffered while in jail, where Humphrey developed prostate cancer that worsened due to lack of treatment.

VICTORIA — New Democrat spokesperson for health, Judy Darcy, is congratulating advocates who have won improved treatment for the late effects of early childhood cancer.

Many laboratory tests were performed and chemotherapy — requiring intravenous punctures — was resumed, even though studies had shown that this type of cancer does not respond significantly, if at all, to drug treatment, and even though complications and side effects from the drugs were expected.

Phytic acid's chelating effect may serve to prevent, inhibit, or even cure some cancers by depriving those cells of the minerals (especially iron) they need to reproduce.17 The deprivation of essential minerals like iron would, much like other broad treatments for cancer, also have negative effects on non-cancerous cells.

A particularly effective treatment against many cancers, platinum - based chemotherapy, has the unfortunate side effect of damaging the hair cells in the ear that are responsible for sensing sound waves, Goldrich said.

Examples might include a 30 - year - old healthy woman without a family history of ovarian cancer wanting to have her ovaries removed to prevent such a cancer; a woman with fibroids wanting an experimental surgical treatment whose long - term effects are still unknown; or an 18 - year - old woman without children wanting a sterilization procedure.

There is no evidence that breast milk from a cancer survivor poses any risk to her infant, so long as any residual effects of treatment have cleared her system.

As he battles brain cancer and the debilitating side effects of his aggressive treatment, McCain himself is reckoning with his history and the future, as he and a stream of friends share memories and say what needs to be said.

There is also increasingly strong evidence of the very beneficial effects of cannabis as a safe, non-toxic treatment for chronic pain, multiple sclerosis and cancer - particularly the debilitating effects of chemotherapy.

For a cancer with very high genetic diversity (like AML) however, the unintended effect of treatment is often to select for the most aggressive, resistant cells, clearing away their competitors and furnishing them with all the resources they need to flourish.

Editor's note: This story was updated June 21, 2017, to correct the list of side effects of the treatment and to note that it's not just late - stage cancer patients who might be eligible for immunotherapy.

Abiraterone, approved in 2011 for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer, has a «food effect» that is greater than any other marketed drug.

Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer: Two new studies from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have upended the widely held view that it's best to delay radiation treatment as long as possible after the removal of the prostate in order to prevent unwanted side effects.

Both treatment schedules were similar in terms of controlling cancer, but doctors reported slightly more mild side effects in patients getting the shorter radiation schedule.

For men with intermediate risk prostate cancer, side effects at two years following radiation therapy (RT) were comparable for extremely - hypofractionated treatment, which was delivered in seven fractions across two and a half weeks, and conventional treatment of 39 fractions across eight weeks, according to research presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

«The effect of depressive disorders on prostate cancer treatment and survivorship warrants further study, because both conditions are relatively common in men in the United States.»

Ms Koechlin, Professor Philippe Autier and colleagues used statistical models to work out whether current cancer death rates were due more to the effects of age, the year of birth (which takes into account exposure to cancer - causing agents such as sunshine during early life), or to the recent introduction of new medical technologies or treatments.

Among patients with prostate cancer, those who smoke have increased risks of experiencing side effects from treatment and of developing future cancer recurrences, or even dying from prostate cancer.

Unfortunately, the treatment had little effect on the survival of the terminally ill lung cancer patients in the first trial.

Immunotherapy doubles overall survival and improves quality of life, with fewer side effects, in a treatment - resistant and rapidly progressing form of head and neck carcinoma, reports a large, randomized international trial co-led by investigators at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI).

«Targeted radiotherapy limits side effects of breast cancer treatment.»

«Our preclinical data suggest that combining low doses of these inhibitors will enhance the clinical effects of both drugs as a potential treatment for patients with AML,» says the senior author, Feyruz V. Rassool, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).

«Since epalrestat is already on the market and has no major adverse side effects, our study provides a proof of principle that it could become a valuable targeted drug for the clinical treatment of basal - like breast cancer,» Dong says.

The researchers gave rats with liver cancer either the LDL - DHA nanoparticles or control treatments of LDL without DHA, which were expected to have no effect.