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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: side effects + cancer treatment + cancer  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)


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Should you take Aspirin to prevent cancer?
CTV.ca, Canada -
On the positive side, several large studies indicate that both Aspirin and NSAIDs appear to significantly lower the chance of developing colon cancer. ...
Aspirin lowers breast cancer risk The News - International
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Gather.com
Medicare's Decisions May Affect Cancer Treatment
Gather.com, MA -
The treatments are equally effective and have similar side effects. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the injections became quite popular. ...
New Treatment Combination for Bile Duct Cancer May Improve Survival
Cancer Consultants, ID -
Side effects occurred only in PDT patients and included skin toxicities, which were treated topically. Researchers concluded that ERCP with PDT improved ...
Photodynamic Therapy May Be Effective Palliation for ... Cancer Consultants
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New Chemicals Shield ?Genome Guardian?
PharmaLive.com (press release), PA -
There will be better treatments with fewer side effects ? Treatments that accurately target the cancer and have few serious side effects will be available ...
New drug for cancer in 5 years Scotland on Sunday
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Divigel(R) (estradiol gel) 0.1 Percent Offers Lowest Approved Dose ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK -
Less common but serious side effects include breast cancer, cancer of the uterus, stroke, heart attack, blood clots, dementia, gallbladder disease and ...
Midwestern Regional among first to use GPS for the Body
Waukegan News Sun, IL -
... side effects," Eden said. One of the beneficiaries of the new treatment has been Gary Eskelson, 56, former NASA software programmer. A prostate cancer ...
RNs Navigate Cancer Care
Nurse.com, VA -
... to patients shortly after diagnosis and spends considerable time with them answering questions about procedures and treatment options and side effects. ...

Belfast Telegraph
Could acupuncture be just the medicine?
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom -
By then, many had become hooked on pharmaceutical meds, with further drugs prescribed to counteract their side effects. When we took to the streets of ...
Is an alternative just the tonic? BBC News
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Health Briefs
Leader Times, PA -
Volunteer beauty professionals teach women with cancer how to deal with some of the side effects of cancer treatment. For information and to register, ...
The quest for natural healing
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - May 3, 2008
The major problem, however, is that medical cancer therapies, especially chemotherapy, come with side-effects, which may be severe. ...
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A Chemical Inhibitor of p53 That Protects Mice from the Side Effects of Cancer Therapy -
PG Komarov, EA Komarova, RV Kondratov, K Christov- … - Science, 1999 - sciencemag.org
... Reports. A Chemical Inhibitor of p53 That Protects Mice from the Side Effects
of Cancer Therapy. Pavel G. Komarov, 1, 2 * Elena A. Komarova ...

Comparison of radiation side-effects of conformal and conventional radiotherapy in prostate cancer: … -
DP Dearnaley, VS Khoo, AR Norman, L Meyer, A Nahum … - Lancet, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Late chronic side-effects limit the dose that can be given ... lessen the risk of
radiation-related effects in a ... We recruited men with prostate cancer for treatment ...

Effects of psychosocial interventions with adult cancer patients: a meta-analysis of randomized … -
TJ Meyer, MM Mark - Health Psychol, 1995 - content.apa.org
... Conditioned side effects induced by cancer chemotherapy: Prevention through behavioral
treatment. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 55, 42-48. ...

A progress report on the treatment of 157 patients with advanced cancer using lymphokine-activated … -
SA Rosenberg, MT Lotze, LM Muul, AE Chang, FP Avis … - N Engl J Med, 1987 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... were common, but these side effects resolved promptly ... its ultimate role in cancer
therapy awaits further ... the therapeutic efficacy of treatment and decrease its ...

… antibody in women who have HER2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer that has progressed after … -
MA Cobleigh, CL Vogel, D Tripathy - feedback, 2005 - biomedcentral.com
... with progressing poor-prognosis metastatic breast cancer it produces ... the antibody
is that the side effects commonly seen ... antibody is a new treatment option for ...

Quality of life and cancer pain: satisfaction and side effects with transdermal fentanyl versus oral … -
R Payne, SD Mathias, DJ Pasta, LA Wanke, R … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1998 - jcojournal.org
... PURPOSE: To compare pain-related treatment satisfaction, patient- perceived side
effects, functioning, and well-being in patients with advanced cancer who were ...

Side Effects of Adjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer -
CL Shapiro, A Recht - New England Journal of Medicine, 2001 - content.nejm.org
Volume 344:1997-2008, June 28, 2001, Number 26. Next Next. Side Effects of Adjuvant
Treatment of Breast Cancer. Charles L. Shapiro, MD, and Abram Recht, MD. ...

[PDF] … , Alone or in Combination) trial after completion of 5 years? adjuvant treatment for breast cancer -
A Howell, J Cuzick, M Baum, A Buzdar, M Dowsett, … - Lancet, 2005 - iss.it
... endocrine treatment for postmenopausal women with hormone-receptor-positive localised
breast cancer is 5 years of tamoxifen, but recurrences and side-effects ...

On the receiving end--patient perception of the side-effects of cancer chemotherapy. -
A Coates, S Abraham, SB Kaye, T Sowerbutts, C … - Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol, 1983 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... receiving cancer chemotherapy. Non-physical side-effects constituted 54% of the
15 most severe symptoms, and included the thought of coming for treatment, the ...

… and radiotherapy compared with radiotherapy alone in patients with cancer of the esophagus. -
A Herskovic, K Martz, M al-Sarraf, L Leichman, J … - N Engl J Med, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... with surgery and radiation for cancer of the ... The patients who received combined
treatment had fewer ... Severe and life-threatening side effects occurred in 44 ...

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Exercise can reduce cancer treatment side effects

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exercising can help cancer patients feel better mentally and physically, a new analysis of data from published research shows.

But it remains unclear what type of exercise is most effective or how much a person needs to work out in order to benefit, lead author Dr. Vicki S. Conn of Missouri University-Columbia's Sinclair School of Nursing and her colleagues note.The benefits of exercise for healthy people are well known, but the growing body of research on whether exercise can help patients undergoing cancer treatment has produced mixed results, the researchers report in the July issue of Supportive Care in Cancer.

To investigate, Conn and her team combined the findings of 30 previous studies that investigated the effects of exercise on cancer patients. Thirteen of the studies were conducted with breast cancer patients, while 21 looked at supervised exercise rather than at-home workouts.

Exercise had the strongest effect on boosting patients' physical function, such as improving their ability to climb stairs or walk a certain distance. It improved patients' body composition, increasing the percentage of lean muscle mass to total weight.

Exercise reduced some symptoms, such as nausea and vomiting and pain, and modest improvements were seen in fatigue, mood and quality of life.

Given the relatively small benefits for exercise identified by their analysis, Conn and her colleagues suggest combining exercise with other inventions designed to improve cancer patients' physical and mental health. "Overall, the data support the potential efficacy of exercise interventions among cancer patients," Conn and her colleagues write. "Controlled experiments testing variations in intervention components and delivery are urgently needed to move forward our understanding of effective strategies to improve health and well being outcomes in this population."

SOURCE: Supportive Care in Cancer

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Age should not be a factor in stroke rehab

HONG KONG - People over 80 recover as well from a stroke as younger patients do and should not be excluded from intensive rehabilitation programmes, a study in Hong Kong has found.

Fifteen million people worldwide suffer a stroke annually, according to the World Health Organisation. Of these, five million die and five million are left permanently disabled. It is commonly believed, even among medical staff, that the older a stroke victim, the less he or she will benefit from post-stroke rehabilitation. But the study by researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found no basis for this belief. In a study of 878 stroke survivors receiving rehabilitation in Hong Kong from January 2000 to December 2003, age played no role in how well they recovered.

"The most important finding is that (regardless) of the age group of the patients, all of them benefitted from the rehabilitation programme," said Raymond Cheung, neurology specialist at the Queen Mary Hospital, which is attached to the University of Hong Kong.

The 878 patients were put into three groups: 189 were younger than 65 years old, another 432 were between 65 and 79 years, and 257 were over 80 years old. Patients scoring 90 points or more on the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) were considered to have recovered well. FIM measures how well a person is able to care for themselves and perform simple tasks such as getting into a wheelchair, taking a shower and communicating. Around 20 percent of survivors in all three age groups enjoyed higher FIMs by the time they were discharged from hospital.

"For those with very good FIM scores upon discharge, we did not find advanced age being a factor," Cheung said.

"So patients of advanced age should not be excluded from rehab programmes. In fact, they should be encouraged to participate in order to achieve better results."

The findings were published in the medical journal Cerebrovascular Research in January.

"There is published literature saying that age is an adverse factor (blocking) a good outcome, but our study will help correct this unhealthy concept," Cheung said.

The researchers also found that people who responded well to post-stroke rehabilitation were those who were working before their illness and who were living with their families.

 
 
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