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Cancer Therapies: The Early Defence Against Cancer
Cancer therapies are called by its various names: “molecularly targeted drugs” or “molecularly targeted therapies”. These are drugs or other substances whose primary function is to arrest the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body. These drugs interfere with specific molecules responsible for the growth and progression of the tumor. Advantages of cancer [...]
Magnetic Pulses Can ‘Burn’ Cancer Cells
A new cancer curing technique is showing promising results – a therapy that uses magnetic pulses to heat tumor cells until they die. Scientists have found that it could be possible to heat up cancer cells using tiny particles of iron oxide that vibrate when in a magnetic field. Test conducted on mice showed that [...]
Michael Douglas Has 80% Chance of Recovery from Throat Cancer
Doctors have given throat cancer sufferer, Michael Douglas an 80% chance of recovery. His discovery of having throat cancer was followed by rigorous chemotherapy and radiation treatments, which did bring to mind, the prospect of dying says the actor. His condition and its treatment has put a “little perspective on mortality, obviously,” says the actor. [...]
Cancer Disease: Types, Symptoms, And Treatments
The cancer disease is one of the major, if not the leading cause of death in our world today. Everyday there are thousands of new cases from all parts of the globe, and withstanding millions who are infected of either new or recurring cancer. Cancer disease is basically human cells that go rogue, and do [...]
A Tumor to Kill Cancer?
A novel approach to cancer treatment has been developed recently – creating a personalized vaccine to help prevent cancer. This approach is said to help by enabling patients with colorectal cancer to develop an immune response to their own cancers. The procedure was tested at Dartmouth, wherein a dendritic cell (DC) vaccine was used after [...]
Top 3 Reasons Why You Should Join Breast Cancer Walk
Did you know that treatments for breast cancer are very expensive that some patients can no longer afford them? Even the survival rate for breast cancer decreased because many can’t afford the treatments designed to help cure it. In order to address this problem, more and more breast cancer organizations come up with ways and [...]
Ductal Breast Cancer Prevention Techniques
Cancers that originate because of multiplication of tumor cells in the milk ducts of females are termed as ductal breast cancer. This is a very common type of cancer affecting a large number of women around the world. There are techniques invented which can prevent the spread of the tumor cells, but they highly depend [...]
Helping Patients Deal With Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
There are hundreds of different kinds of cancers that are present today. The fact is that cancer can kill and has victimized millions of people worldwide. One cancer feared today is known as non Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma is derived from abnormal lymphocytes that do not tend to follow its normal life cycle in [...]
