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Cancer Therapy + Cardiotoxicity = Heart Damage, Death
“Cardiotoxicity is a well-established complication of multiple chemotherapeutic agents. Cardiotoxicity related to chemotherapy can occur in many ways…” Many FDA approved, safe and effective
Continue readingColorectal Cancer-Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Bevacizumab (avastin) was approved by the FDA in February 2004 for use in metastatic colorectal cancer when used with standard chemotherapy treatment (as first-line treatment)… The article linked
Continue reading4 Tips on How You Can Keep Disease at Bay
Either you know someone or have personally experienced an illness or disease at one point in your life. Thinking back on it, the situation is something that you never want to experience again. Of course,
Continue readingFish Oil, Lung Cancer Response by 60%
“Adding fish oil resulted in a greater response rate at 60% compared with 25.8% with the SOC…Overall survival at 1 year trended toward improvement with fish oil compared with SOC” If
Continue readingPediatric Cancer- Non-Toxic Therapy Kills Kids Brain Cancer
Medulloblastoma is the most common brain tumor in pediatric cancer patients, and its prognosis is worse…” Curcumin induced apoptosis…in medulloblastoma cells… A cancer diagnosis
Continue readingPancreatic Cancer- Hyperthermia
Bathing your Pancreatic Cancer is hot chemo may be more effective than circulating chemo throughout your entire body… Makes sense to me. Pancreatic Cancer is one of the, if not the most difficult
Continue readingBladder Cancer- Increase Overall Survival
“61% of patients with Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) will experience recurrence within the first year after initial resection, and up to 78% will experience recurrence within five years” If
Continue readingDiagnosed with Melanoma? Get a Second Opinion!
These results show that diagnoses ranging from moderately atypical lesions to early stage invasive melanoma are neither accurate nor reproducible, say the authors. While I am the first person to be cynical
Continue readingMagnesium – Colorectal Cancer Prevention
“In regard to cancer, magnesium (mag) intake has been associated with the incidence of some cancers and has been studied as a protective agent against chemotherapy-induced nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity…” According
Continue readingCurcumin, Aromatase Inhibitor Sensitivity, Breast Cancer
“curcumin reverses chemo-resistance and sensitizes cancer cells to chemotherapy and targeted therapy in breast cancer” Aromatase Inhibitors (Tamoxifen, anastrozole, exemestane and letrozole
Continue readingCutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
There is no widely accepted standard-of-care for unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (CSCC) aka Skin Cancer According to research the majority of both basal
Continue readingI Don’t Buy It-“Algorithm Accurately Predicts Cognitive Decline in Parkinson’s Disease”
Cognitive decline is one of the long-term outcomes of PD that has been largely unmanageable, and clinical trials are hampered by the highly varied rates of progression to cognitive clinical endpoints.
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