Sentences with phrase «oncologist about»
If your pet is being treated for cancer, talk to your veterinary oncologist about a home - made cancer diet recipe or referral to a veterinary nutritionist.
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Everytime I have asked my oncologist about soy I'm told it should be avoided because of it being a phytoestrogen and studies showing that it could increase my chance of recurrence.
Find a pain specialist «There are a growing number of pain specialists who have more and more methods to treat pain, like interrupting pain signals,» says Timothy Moynihan, MD, a medical oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. «Talk to your oncologist about referring you to a pain clinic; most of the major cancer centers will have them.
«If you are a young woman who was treated with radiation therapy to your chest as a teenager or child for HL, or for that matter chest radiation therapy for any reason, you should be having a conversation with your family doctor or your oncologist about whether to start breast cancer screening earlier than most women would,» says Dr. Hodgson.
He is currently writing for breast cancer survivors and their oncologists about the important role that estrogens and antiestrogens have in the brain, on cognitive function, and on mental health.
Not exact matches
Dr. Anirban Maitra, an oncologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, pointed out on Twitter that Bornstein's admission about the dictated doctor note could amount to misconduct under New York law.
Vazquez, an oncologist, also traveled to Israel in 1982, representing Uruguay in an international seminar about cancer research.
Both her surgeon and her oncologist were deeply religious Christians and compassionate human beings who spoke openly and honestly about Carol's condition and prognosis....
I didn't start to regain my pre-cancer cognitive and physical functioning until about nine months after hearing my oncologist say, «no evidence of disease.»
Camp Kesem is very near and dear to her heart because she aspires to be an oncologist and she fell in love as soon as she read about Camp Kesem's mission because her mom had breast cancer while she was growing up and knows how much she would have benefited if she had been able to go to a camp like Kesem.
APRIL KING: Initially, I think my oncologist was a little... I don't want to say off - put by me asking about the pump and dump, but I don't think he really know how to respond either.
Melissa asked her oncologist what advice he'd give to his own daughter about getting pregnant if she were in Melissa's situation.
Rachel Rawson: «Knowing more about this type of breast cancer is essential and it could one day allow oncologists to tailor treatment to individuals.
Doctors at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Thailand have been using the system for about a year now, and oncologists at six hospitals in India started using Watson a few weeks back.
«It's made women more skeptical about the test,» says Sheryl Gabram - Mendola, a surgical oncologist at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute.
«Before this test, about one in five potential thyroid cancer cases couldn't be diagnosed without an operation to remove a portion of the thyroid,» said lead author Linwah Yip, M.D., assistant professor of surgery in Pitt's School of Medicine and UPMC surgical oncologist.
They expressed concerns about the science behind genetic cancer predictors developed by two Duke researchers, oncologist Anil Potti and Nevins.
Scientific American spoke with geneticist and oncologist Amanda Paulovich, director of the Fred Hutchinson's Early Detection Initiative, about the work she and her team are doing to find biomarkers that can identify cancer in its most formative stages.
The money comes with few conditions, and no progress reports or renewal applications to write, which «allows you to focus on what you think will yield the most important results without being concerned about meeting artificial intermediate deadlines,» says oncologist Kenneth Kinzler, who co-directs the Ludwig Center at Hopkins.
That's when the oncologist told her about a clinical trial just getting underway, of a medication called ipilimumab.
In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.
Another is that the relevant information is missing, as pediatric oncologists often don't ask about adult cancers in a family to better understand their young patients.
«What it says is that even at a well - resourced, large referral center, about a third of families are reporting food, housing or energy insecurity six months into treatment,» says lead author Kira Bona, MD, MPH, a pediatric oncologist at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's.
More than 20 years after University College London's viral oncologist Robin Weiss read about an odd, sexually transmitted cancer in dogs, he has turned up surprising clues about its origin in a canine ancestor hundreds, or possibly thousands, of years ago.
«This is a neat study, both for what it tells us about melanocytes and more broadly for what it could mean to stem cell research,» says David Fisher, an oncologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
I tell Gavrin about a study done in San Francisco by Donald Abrams, an oncologist and prominent medical marijuana researcher.
In the meantime, oncologists should advise all smokers to quit smoking traditional combustible cigarettes, encourage use of FDA - approved cessation medications, refer patients for smoking cessation counseling, and provide education about the potential risks and lack of known benefits of long - term e-cigarette use.»
«This is what we have dreamed about: drugs that can be targeted to a patient's specific tumor, to the mechanism that caused the cancer,» says Alice Shaw, Martensen's oncologist and a chief investigator in the Xalkori clinical trial at Mass General.
«There has been a great deal of debate about the effectiveness of bevacizumab in treating patients with glioblastoma,» says lead author Derek Johnson, M.D., a neuro - oncologist at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.
About 6 % of patients experienced delays of more than one month before their oncologist started treatment.
Several of the oncologists said they felt pressured by the media coverage to offer the test to women for whom they knew it would not provide useful information for their decision - making about chemotherapy.
Some oncologists offered the test to all their patients, others only to those who were eligible or where they felt there was uncertainty about the potential value of chemotherapy.
The average tumor detected by ultrasound measures about five centimeters in diameter, and the biomarkers used in blood tests enable oncologists to detect tumors as small as one centimeter.
Dr. Rémy Brossel, Medical Oncologist and CSO and Founder of Cell Constraint & Cancer, a Biotech dedicated to in vivo application of Physical Oncology, will talk on Tuesday November 1, 2016 at 6:30 pm about a new way to treat cancer using constraint fields to cause physical disruption to the cells.
«Because each of these subgroups has a different probability, our approach can provide oncologists with better information about prognosis and treatment options.»
«There is something to what Peter Duesberg says,» says Mark David Vincent, a Canadian researcher and oncologist whose own unconventional theories about cancer overlap with Duesberg's.
«This could potentially change how we think about tumor growth and spread, but the direct clinical implications of this study may not be obvious on the surface,» said co-author medical oncologist Daniel Catenacci, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago.
«It's not something many men think about, but it can happen,» says Daniel S. Oh, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist with UNC REX Cancer Care.
«When medical oncologists make decisions about targeted chemotherapy, they typically base that off the results of a single biopsy.
An important read about the foundation and future of functional precision medicine to help current cancer patients and the oncologists who treat them.
At UT Southwestern, our specialized liver cancer team comprises transplant hepatologists, surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, and other specialists, all working together to deliver individualized patient care and bring about the best possible outcomes for patients with any type of liver cancer.
I learned that the oncologists don't really know much about this disease.
«Lack of knowledge about herbs and supplements and awareness of that lack of knowledge is probably one of the reasons why oncologists don't initiate the discussion,» said the study's author, Dr. Richard Lee, medical director of the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
i'm all about the keto — i've got stage four lymphoma and can't wait to go to my oncologist in two months for my bloodwork to see what he says about it!
I have read so much about the dangers of fluoride I am hesitant to follow the Oncologist's advise.
When my cousin had breast cancer her oncologist actually ranted some about soy products as she was the third or fourth young women he had seen that day with estrogen related breast cancer.
My oncologist on the other hand was very kind about the fact that I wanted to try alternative therapies and she gave me a window of time for trying alternatives.
If undergoing chemotherapy please consult with your oncologist if you have any concerns about dietary supplementation.
After predicting that Stamets» mother had only 3 to 6 months to live, the oncologist told both mother and son about an intriguing new study using Turkey Tail mushrooms to cure cancer.
Unfortunately, my Oncologist has been very dismissive of all the alternate therapies I've been asking about, Metformin, etc, despite all the studies & evidence showing their potential, & he still refuses to believe my keto diet has been beneficial to my treatment.