Sentences with phrase «treat uterine cancer»

Radiation therapy used to treat uterine cancer may increase a patient's risk of developing bladder cancer.

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Studies have found that women treated with radiation therapy for uterine cancer, like men who received radiation therapy for prostate cancer, have an increased risk of developing bladder cancer later in life.

With an average follow - up of 15 years, bladder cancer incidence in uterine cancer patients treated with pelvic radiation therapy was twice as high as that seen in patients treated without radiation.

Adding the monoclonal antibody drug trastuzumab — already used to treat certain breast cancers — to the chemotherapy regimen of women with a rare form of uterine cancer lengthens the amount of time their tumors are kept from growing, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conducting a small phase II trial of the regimen, testing its safety and value.

As new drug combos come on line for difficult to treat cancers like uterine serous carcinoma (USC), researchers claim success in terms of months, not years.

Although hysterectomy should be considered for uterine cancer, some 90 percent of procedures in the United States today are performed for reasons other than treating cancer, according to William H. Parker, MD, clinical professor of gynecology at UCLA and author of the 05 study.

Many studies have effectively demonstrated that garlic has anti-cancer properties and can be used in treating many cancers like breast, stomach, skin, colon, esophagus, lung, prostate, and uterine cancers.

Females spayed before their first estrous cycle («heat») greatly reduces her chance of mammary tumors, ovarian cancer and uterine infection (all of which can be fatal and costly to treat).

-- Spay or neuter surgeries are far less expensive than the cost of caring for a litter of puppies, or the cost of treating testicular and uterine cancers which are eliminated when a dog is sterilized.