All Entries in the "Cancer Treatment" Category
Green Tea for Cancer Treatment
Studies showed that people who used to drink green tea are less likely to develop cancer. Green tea along with various herbal remedies can be used to deal with the side effects of chemotherapy. Increased consumption of green tea helps to lower risk of stomach cancers. Antioxidants found in green tea can help to protect [...]
Fish Oil to Help Cancer Patients Combat Weight Loss
One of the many undesirable side effects of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy is the fact that there is a lot of muscle loss/weight loss observed among cancer sufferers. This is due to the fact that chemotherapy tends to rob people of their appetite and also dulls their sense of taste. And according to a [...]
Can Mangosteen Destroy Cancer Cells?
Various therapeutic properties of mangosteen make it more effective in treating diseases like cancer. Mangosteen has various anti-cancer properties such as anti-tumor, anti-leukemia, antifungal, antibacterial, antioxidants, antiproliferation that greatly help to destroy the cancer cells and other causes of some cancer types. Antioxidant properties of mangosteen Most of the researchers believed that the anti-oxidant properties [...]
Blood Test May Revolutionize Cancer Treatment
Researchers are involved in developing a blood test that could be so sensitive as to detect even a single cancer cell, and thereby revolutionize cancer treatment by making very early detection possible. It is being termed a ‘Liquid Biopsy’, this hypersensitive blood test for cancer which could offer cancer sufferers to attack this fatal disease [...]
Conventional Treatments For Sinus Cancer
Sinus cancer is not a common type of cancer and it occurs because of thick mucus in the cavity and can be generated from the mucus bone around the nasal area as well. By stating that this type of cancer is uncommon does not mean sinus cancer treatment is not complicated. Cancer is a deadly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cancer Vaccines – Are They Available?
Since time immemorial, no such disease has challenged scientists and medical practitioners the way cancer does. Deadly and dangerous, it is one disease feared by many. In spite of that, doctors have been doing their best searching for cancer vaccines. With the exception of cervical cancer, clinical tests are being done in efforts to formulate [...]
