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New drug may benefit blood cancer patients
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 10 (ANI): A team of US researchers has found that a drug alone or with combination of chemotherapy may show promising results in treating patients with blood cancer.
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Men have worse chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy than women?
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 25 (ANI): A study, presented at EuroCMR, says that chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy react more on men than women.
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A combination therapy can now treat brain cancer
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 17 (ANI): A team of researchers has discovered a vaccine, combined with high-dose chemotherapy, for treating the most aggressive form of brain cancer.
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Vaccine-chemotherapy combo offers hope for deadly brain cancer patients
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 15 (ANI): A team of researchers may have just hit pay dirt with a new combination therapy for a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer-glioblastoma.
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Common cancer drugs may up chemo toxicity
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 5 (ANI): A new study has found that the common drugs widely used in cancer therapy, known to increase blood sugar, appeared to also up chemo-related cell damage in mice, raising possible risks for cancer patients taking similar drug combinations.
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Gastrointestinal cancer: Walk your way to healthy life during chemo
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 13 (ANI): Walking or jogging helps patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer to cope better with the side effects of chemotherapy, according to a recent study.
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Richfeel and Nargis Dutt Foundation come together to launch 'My Hair
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 6 (ANI): Richfeel, a Haircare brand, and Nargis Dutt Foundation announced the launch of their social cause campaign 'My Hair for Cancer' to help cancer patients fight cancer and loss of self-esteem due to loss of hair during chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Th
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Twice a day radiation therapy cuts down deaths from cancer
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan. 27 (ANI): A study suggests that treating head and neck cancer patients with twice-a-day radiation therapy combined with chemotherapy can prove beneficial and save more lives.
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Heart damage by chemotherapy is worse in patients with diabetes
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Dec.11 (ANI): Heart damage caused by chemotherapy is worse in cancer patients who also have diabetes, found a recent study presented at the EuroEcho-Imaging 2016.
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Cancer drug may increase new eggs in women, study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 6 (ANI): British researchers have revealed that a chemotherapy drug combination, commonly used to target cancer, may increase the number of non-growing eggs in women's ovaries.
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Hearing loss caused by chemotherapy can now be prevented
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 3 (ANI): In first of its kind study, researchers have developed a new treatment that can prevent chemotherapy-induced hearing loss to about half in kids and adolescents with cancer.
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Scientists make breakthrough discovery for testicular cancer
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
WashingtonD.C [US], Dec. 2 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have identified unique genomic changes that may be integral to testicular cancer development and explain why the great majority are highly curable with chemotherapy - unlike most solid tumors.
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