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Research explores ways to stop painful chemo for kids
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): An ongoing research underway at The University of Queensland is focusing on stopping children undergoing chemotherapy from feeling pain and other debilitating side effects.
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Scalp cooling is proving to be successful in preventing hair loss due to c
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], July 25 (ANI/PNN): Losing hair is one of the most painful experiences of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. It is especially the case for women patients. But not any longer; Scalp cooling is an innovative method that has helped thousands of cancer patients
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Research: How various cancer cells react to drug-delivery nanoparticles
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Boston [US], July 22 (ANI): Using nanoparticles to deliver cancer drugs allows for high drug concentrations to be delivered to tumours while avoiding the harmful side effects associated with chemotherapy. However, only a few nanoparticle-based cancer drugs have received FDA approval.
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Radiation pre-T cell therapy can alleviate need for chemo, says study
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 12 (ANI): A new study has found that a patient can undergo T cell therapy designed to target cancerous tumours, the patient's entire immune system must be destroyed with chemotherapy or radiation.
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Study: Radiation pre-T cell therapy could alleviate need for chemo
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 9 (ANI): According to a study by the University of California-Los Angeles Health Science, before a patient can undergo T cell therapy designed to target cancerous tumours, the patient's entire immune system must be destroyed with chemotherapy or radiation.
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Study finds Bridge therapy may benefit some children with high-risk neurob
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Jersey [US], June 6 (ANI): According to new research, Neuroblastoma is paediatric cancer that arises from immature nerve cells. Approximately half of the children with neuroblastoma have a type that suggests a high risk of recurrence. Patients with this high-risk neuroblastoma may benefi
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Circulating tumor DNA can identify stage II colon cancer patients : Resear
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 5 (ANI): Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) thats is a genetic material shed from tumors into the bloodstream can identify stage II colon cancer patients who can most benefit from chemotherapy following surgery and spare other patients the need for this form of treatment, ac
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Study finds time-restricted eating may reduce CVD risk in older breast can
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 31 (ANI): According to a new study by The American College of Cardiology, older breast cancer survivors with cardiometabolic risk factors who restricted food consumption to eight hours during the workday, followed by 16 hours of fasting, had a decreased risk of CVD after
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CBI registers FIR against senior Oncologist for administering overdose of
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday registered a case against a senior Oncologist for alleged medical negligence leading to the death of a Bahraini national.
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Study finds immune cells' key characteristics in ovarian cancer
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 24 (ANI): Over the past few decades treatments for ovarian cancer have barely changed. Currently, surgery and chemotherapy are the most common therapeutic approaches for it.
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Immune cells' key characteristics in ovarian cancer identified by research
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 18 (ANI): Treatments for ovarian cancer have changed little over the past few decades, with surgery and chemotherapy being the most common therapeutic approaches.
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Study finds importance of malaria drug in treating neck cancers
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 20 (ANI): Do you know malaria drugs work against some cancers? According to a new study, the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine inhibits pathways that drive resistance to the chemotherapy agent cisplatin in head and neck cancers and restores tumour-killing effects of cisp
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