Chemotherapy And Biotherapy - Articles
New cancer 'vaccine' against brain tumor
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Dr. Nagaraj
Glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive type of brain cancer claimed the life of Sen. Edward Kennedy and 17,000 others every year. Conventional treatments have never offered much help to patients with brain cancer.We need alternative treatments, using the immune systems. Just like the vaccines we give for measles, mumps and the flu, the idea i ...
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Apples and apple extracts found to fight cancer
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Kathleen
Food scientist Rui Hai Liu from Cornell University has been researching cancer fighting compounds in apples. The results show that apples and apple extracts inhibit and kill cancer cells in liver breast and colon cancer. Apples could find a new role in cancer treatment and prevention. Dr.Liu says, I’m interested in the health benefits of fru ...
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Calm, collected and cool...
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loulou_787
Just when I thought I was behaving and doing quite well I felt a crushing blow yesterday when the Professor looked at me for 2 minutes and then the next thing I was being admitted urgently with suspected problems with the PTLD(Post Transplant Proliferative Disease) in my liver! I remained calm and unalarmed, but at the same time so many things st ...
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Sem cell transplantation in ALL
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Mark Levin
Patients with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have an extremely poor prognosis. Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who experience a relapse following chemotherapy and maintenance therapy are unlikely to be cured by further chemotherapy alone. These patients should be considered for reinduction chemotherapy followed by allo ...
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Wearing SCARF
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Romelette L.
I know some people uses scarf for fashion. But at this point, for me, wearing it is a sign of surrender. Yesterday, one of my top most priority when we went to the mall is to buy some scarves. Yeah, I have to used it for my balding head. It’s quite an unfortunate situation but hey I am still thankful that we have product like this to masked t ...
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Expert Answers on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Healthosity ..
Denise Grady, a science writer for The New York Times, recently explored the link between a recently discovered virus called XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome, in “Is a Virus the Cause of Fatigue Syndrome?” Here, Dr. Nancy G. Klimas, who serves on the board of the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, responds to reade ...
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To Mammogram…Or Not
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Raine Saunders
Indeed, cancer is a scary thing. For as long as I can remember, women have been advised to start getting mammograms over the age of 40 as part of a preventative program for reducing the risk of breast cancer and/or detecting it early enough to be able to go on the appropriate program to be able to remove it should it be found (i.e., chemotherapy, r ...
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Exercises and School
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Daria
Yesterday I put together and started my exercise program for my feet. After doing some of the stretching exercise, I realise that my calves are extremely tight ... likely from the lack of activity on my part for the last eight to ten months. The exercises include ... picking up a tea towel with my toes and rolling my foot over a frozen water bottle ...
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