Can medical marijuana or C-B-D help speech disorders? When I began researching and writing about cannabis as an evidence-based therapy for cancer patients, I began coming across articles about cannabis
Continue readingTesticular cancer is rare and largely curable type of cancer. I write about the short, long-term and late stage side effects of cancer frequently. But I have rarely written about the side effects of testicular
Continue readingIs Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) effective as a therapy for cancer? For my cancer specifically- multiple myeloma? As is often the case, the issue of cancer therapies in general or my specific rare
Continue reading…known cardioprotective intervention, exercise training, with Calorie Restriction (CR) results in additive benefits in the protection against doxorubicin cardiotoxicity. Doxorubicin as well as other
Continue readingIs plasma exchange therapy, sometimes called therapeutic plasma exchange or plasmapheresis beneficial for myeloma patients? If you are one of the 20%-40% of newly diagnosed myeloma patients with kidney
Continue readingOur patients with early cardiac symptoms improved transiently but decompensated later and patients with no early symptoms developed cardiac symptoms more than 10 years after anthracycline therapy. Anthracycline
Continue reading“Hyperviscosity syndrome (HVS) is a rare complication of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) related to high tumour burden…Among MM patients, 3–6% experienced this complication at diagnosis
Continue readingThough I’ve written previously about chemotherapy-induced hypertension previously, that blog posts talked as much about cardiotoxicity and cardiomyopathy as they did about the increase in blood
Continue readingCoffee for chemo brain? I’ve been struggling with chemotherapy-induced cognitive dysfunction aka chemo brain since I completed active therapy for my cancer in 1997. Over the years, I’ve figured
Continue readingChemo-induced cardiomyopathy is a serious short, long-term and even late stage side effect of cancer survivors. The purpose of this post is to present an evidence-based non-conventional Traditional Chinese
Continue readingI begin all post about anti-aging therapies by explaining that I am a cancer survivor who has undergone aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. My goal is to reduce my risk of cancer relapse, reduce my
Continue readingSerotonin and neurokinin antagonists, such as ondansetron and aprepitant, are highly effective in treating chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting… Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting can make
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