Immunotherapy Increases Response to Chemo in Lung Cancer

Pretreatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors are associated with a higher likelihood of response to salvage chemotherapy in patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Advanced non-small

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How Medical Personnel Can Help Chronic Patients Rest Better

“… it can be possible to streamline the process for the facility’s longest-staying patients in order to cut down on the number of disruptions they can endure.” One of the most common

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How to Prevent Serious Infections 

Preventing serious infections is something that you should make a conscious effort to do as treating it once contracted can be hard… The goal should be to be as healthy as possible and avoid serious

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Curcumin- Bronchial Asthma

The results showed that curcumin capsules help in improving the airway obstruction (Bronchial Asthma) which was evident by significant improvement in the mean… I am a long-term cancer survivor of

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Chemosensitivity Testing Improves Treatment of Leukemia

“A paper in the peer-reviewed journal Leukemia & Lymphoma showed that overall survival improved 250+ percent in leukemia patients when doctors used a chemosensitivity test to help determine treatment.” As

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Life as a Caregiving Youth

“The American Association of Caregiving Youth aims mainly to make sure that caregiving students don’t drop out of school…” Life as a caregiving youth for me feels pretty normal.

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Fish Oil Improves Response to Chemo, Improves OS for Lung Cancer Patients

Fish Oil Increases Response to Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer Patients and Increases Overall Survival Compared to Standard-of-Care Lung cancer patients and survivors face several challenges. Non-small cell

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MGUS-“Comparatively Lower Life Expectancy?”

MGUS stands for monoclonal gammopathy of undermined significance. MGUS is not cancer. It is a pre-Multiple Myeloma (MM) asymptomatic blood disorder. MGUS at a glance- click the illustration below: Symptoms- Bone

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Curcumin- Cirrhosis of the Liver

“Curcumin also partially reversed the fibrosis induced by CCl(4). Curcumin was effective in preventing and reversing cirrhosis, probably by its ability of reducing TGF-beta expression.” Writing

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Breakthrough Against Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer…”We have now shown that with the removal of this carbohydrate alteration the cells die.” The article linked and

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Myeloma- Cisplatin induced hearing loss

“CONCLUSION: These preliminary findings confirm the neuroprotective properties of vitamin E against the Cisplatin-induced hearing loss (ototoxicity)….” I was diagnosed with a blood cancer

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Researcher Challenges Retinoblastoma

the predisposition to this type of retinoblastoma (ret) can be inherited, so the other eye of the child and those of infant relatives are at risk to develop tumours… Retinoblastoma. One of the key

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