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Source: BBC Health; Journal Nature Medicine. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute (for those not “in the know”, the Cleveland Clinic is a highly regarded institution) are now conducting human trials of a breast cancer vaccine. The vaccine specifically targets a protein common to breast cancer tumors (a-lactalbumin). Studies upon mice (Sorry PETA, that’s what [...] Source: Annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium; Medline 192,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually. 27,000 cases are terminal. Currently under investigation is a new chemotherapy drug -Cabazitaxel which is being administered in conjunction with Mitoxantrone (a commonly used drug f0r prostate cancer). Men receiving this chemo cocktail (no pun intended) had a 30% increase in survival. [...] Source: Annals of Surgical Oncology; Medline It may be still in the early lab stages -how early? Well they are still testing the technique upon mice with tumors, however, researchers have found that freezing breast cancer tumors (cryoablation) helps to stop the spread of breast cancer. Not only did the rapid freezing, through application of a cold [...] Source: BBC Health; The Lancet Oncology It is a fact of chemotherapy (chemical treatment for cancer) that some patients simply don’t respond to medications. Or that they stop responding over time. With more than 45,400 women diagnosed with breast cancer every year, scientists have been furiously trying to decode our genetic patterns for reasons such as [...] Source: American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), 05/2009 Ginger, already legal, has been demonstrated to be effective in reducing nausea for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy (chemical treatment). Chemotherapy induced nausea occurs in 70% of patients receiving same. Not surprising. What is surprising is that patients taking antiemetics (Medication to combat nausea) who supplemented with ginger reported [...] |
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