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BD-India launches PortShala - a Medical Education Program for Healthcare P
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI/BusinessWire India): BD-India (Becton, Dickinson and Company) today announced the launch of a specialist educational program on chemo ports on World Cancer Day, observed on 4th February every year. These ports are used to deliver chemotherapy to cancer pati
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Study focuses on finding way to stop chemotherapy from damaging heart
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Columbus [US], January 26 (ANI): There could be an intervention on the horizon to help prevent heart damage caused by the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, new research suggests.
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Scientists discover new way to treat chemotherapy with light
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 14 (ANI): Scientists from South Korea have made it possible to treat chemotherapy with only one injection through repeated phototherapy, and no side effects by developing a technology that can significantly increase efficiency while reducing the pain of chemother
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Common drug may protect hearts from damage caused by breast cancer chemoth
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], January 6 (ANI): New research shows statins, a drug commonly prescribed to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, may also protect the heart from damaging side-effects of early breast cancer treatment.
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Study reveals potential cancer therapy may boost immune response
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Los Angeles [US], December 7 (ANI ): A new approach to cancer therapy shows potential to transform the commonly used chemotherapy drug gemcitabine into a drug that kills cancer cells in a specialised way, activating immune cells to fight cancer, according to a study led by Cedars-Sinai Cance
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Breast cancer discovery could help stop disease's deadly spread: Study
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 20 (ANI): University of Virginia Cancer Center researchers have identified a gene responsible for the spread of triple-negative breast cancer to other parts of the body - a process called metastasis - and developed a potential way to stop it.
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Immunotherapy may work better in stomach cancer when combined with chemoth
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 6 (ANI): Immunotherapy for stomach cancer may work better if the therapy is delivered earlier in the course of the disease and in combination with standard chemotherapy, a new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons s
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Nearly 30 pc of breast cancer patients gain weight after receiving chemoth
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 25 (ANI): Nearly 30 per cent patients with breast cancer gained weight after receiving chemotherapy treatment, suggested a study.
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Study reveals about 60 per cent cancer patients do not respond effectively
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Indiana [US], October 25 (ANI): Nearly 60 per cent of all cancer patients do not respond effectively to chemotherapy treatments, as estimated by scientists from Purdue University. In recent research, they say that the results can be even worse - as many of those same patients experience toxi
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60 per cent of cancer patients do not respond effectively to chemotherapy
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Indiana [US], October 23 (ANI): Scientists estimate that nearly 60 per cent of all cancer patients do not respond effectively to chemotherapy treatments. Even worse - many of those same patients experience toxic and sometimes deadly side effects.
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Gut bacteria may lead to weight gain following chemotherapy for breast can
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 22 (ANI): A recent research suggested that gut bacteria are partially responsible for metabolic changes that lead to weight gain following chemotherapy treatment.
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Maha governor launches Ayurvedic Chemo Recovery Kits for cancer patients
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 27 (ANI): Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari on Sunday launched Chemo Recovery Kits containing Ayurvedic formulations for cancer patients from the Raj Bhawan here.
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