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World Cancer Day 2022: Understanding the role of Vitamin D in cancer
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): World Cancer Day is observed annually on February 4 to highlight and spread awareness about one of the most-deadliest diseases, which unfortunately can also be genetic - Cancer.
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Moderate exercise program could improve cancer treatment outcomes, says st
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
London [England], February 2 (ANI): A recent study by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has said that a moderate exercise programme could improve the success of chemotherapy treatment in oesophageal cancer patients.
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Study finds exercise might increase impact of pre-surgical chemo in food p
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 2 (ANI): A new study has found that prehab exercise may boost the impact of chemotherapy given to oesophagus cancer patients to shrink their tumours before surgery.
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Scientists offer ray of hope in improving cancer treatment
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 29 (ANI): Two recent discoveries by stem cell scientists at Cedars-Sinai have offered a ray of hope that may help make cancer treatment more efficient and shorten the time taken for people to recover from radiation and chemotherapy. In the first study, published in t
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Stem cell discoveries offer ray of hope in improving cancer treatment
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Los Angeles (California) [US], January 27 (ANI): As painful as cancer can be, its treatment and subsequent recovery is also a long drawn and painful process. In the wake of this, not one, but two recent discoveries by stem cell scientists at Cedars-Sinai have offered a ray of hope that may h
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When is chemotherapy most effective? Research suggests, it varies with tim
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Morgantown (West Virginia) [US], January 27 (ANI): Brain tumours are among the trickiest to treat as the blood-brain barrier keeps foreign substances like germs and toxins from entering the brain. By shielding the brain from things that would harm it, the blood-brain barrier also blocks the
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Study finds cancer treatment might inhibit immune therapy to COVID-19 vacc
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Florida [US], January 22 (ANI): A new study has found patients with cancer who receive chemotherapy -- and some targeted therapies may mount an inadequate immune response to COVID-19 vaccination.
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Exploring RNAi and nanotechnology for cancer therapeutics: CSIR study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 21 (ANI): Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and is attached to economic burden and social stigma. The quest to find plausible therapeutic interventions to replace non-specific chemo drugs has recently led to the development of novel strategies
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Study finds way to reduce cancer drugs' side effects
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 9 (ANI): A new study by The Pennsylvania State University and the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), has devised a method to decrease the side effects of cancer drugs.
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Study finds experimental gene therapy reverses sickle cell disease for yea
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], December 27 (ANI): According to a study, a single dose restored blood cells to their normal shape and eliminated the most serious complication of sickle cell disease for at least three years in some patients.
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Football legend Pele discharged from hospital, will spend Christmas with f
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Sao Paulo [Brazil], December 24 (ANI): Football legend Pele has been discharged from the hospital after two weeks of chemotherapy for a colon tumor, the Brazilian confirmed on Thursday.
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Study finds protein variant that renders chemotherapy ineffective in gastr
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 6 (ANI): A study by a multidisciplinary team at Weill Cornell Medicine has identified a new protein variant that underlies the ability of gastric cancers to resist an otherwise effective family of chemotherapy drugs.
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