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Heart Disease Second Leading Cause of Death for Cancer Patients
“Heart disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. Candidates for aggressive radical surgeries or chemotherapies should be carefully selected in this aging cancer population” Heart
Continue readingCryoablation Outperforms Radical Prostatectomy
“for PCa (cryoablation) using individualized cryoneedle delivery based on biopsy-proven cancer mapping achieved acceptable oncologic and functional outcomes with low rates of incontinence and complications.” You’ve
Continue readingRobotic vs Open Cystectomy in Bladder Cancer?
“How does robot-assisted radical cystectomy compare with traditional open radical cystectomy for management of patients with bladder cancer? Robot-assisted radical cystectomy’s time may be
Continue readingCancer Survivor suicide, depression…
“Patients undergoing cancer surgery have an increased risk of suicide compared with the general population, according to research published in JAMA Oncology…” Yes, a cancer diagnosis
Continue readingBladder Cancer- “No Sex Drive/no Desire for Sex at All…”
It’s killing our relationship so I’m looking for any information anyone could give me…he is seeing another dr tomorrow to talk about this…but he says he just has no sex drive/no
Continue readingGene Breslow, Bladder Cancer- Cystectomy
The exam identified a mucous growing and a thickening in the wall of the bladder. A biopsy was done and the diagnosis was invasive adenocarcinoma of the bladder (bladder cancer-BC). Gene’s Story:
Continue readingCalcium Reduces Colorectal Cancer Relapse
There was a significant decrease in new adenomas detected at follow-up among patients who received calcium supplementation compared with placebo… While the research is not completely consistent,
Continue readingThyroid Cancer- Second Primary Cancers
“Mukherjee and colleagues sought to determine whether oncologists and hematologists were overtreating with RAI in cases of WDTC, and thus putting their patients at risk for Second Primary Cancers.
Continue readingGrape Seed Extract- Colorectal Cancer Therapy
“…the more advanced are colorectal cancer cells, the more GSE inhibits their growth and survival. On the other end of the disease spectrum, GSE leaves healthy cells alone entirely…” Effective
Continue readingPediatric Liver Cancer –
Our results provide firm evidence for the efficacy of the applied regimen, with close to 80% of pediatric liver cancer patients achieving complete remission at the end of treatment. The study linked
Continue readingGrape Seed Extract-Reduce Mucositis & Enhance Colon Cancer Chemo
Grape seed extract may represent a new therapeutic option to decrease the symptoms of intestinal mucositis (MU) while concurrently impacting on the viability of colon cancer cells A diagnosis of colorectal
Continue readingCost of Surviving AYA Cancer- Suleika Jaouad
Between co-payments, out-of-network costs, the out-of-pocket costs of my AYA cancer care have already amounted to tens of thousands of dollars… Cancer patients don’t know what they don’t
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