Cancer patients know chemotherapy can be a life-saver, but the side effects are notorious. One common complaint is that the treatment leaves them feeling foggy-headed and forgetful, unable to concentrate or focus as well as they used to. It's been nicknamed "chemo brain." Chemotherapydrugs ca...
This article discusses a study by Ingo Mellinghoff that appeared in the March 31, 2012 issue of "Cancer Discovery" indicating that the brain cancer glioblastoma can not be affected by targeting the EGFR gene with chemotherapy due to the external location of the cell mutation....
The epigenetic modification alters chromatin structure that affects the docking site of many drugs which cause chemo-resistance of cancer therapy. This review centers the mechanism of how epigenetic changes affect the transcription repression and activation of various genes including Polycomb gene, V-Myc...
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As expected animal studies conducted with patient derived xenografts treated with ChemoID screened drugs recapitulated the clinical observation. This assay demonstrates that patients with the same histological stage and grade of cancer may vary considerably in their clinical response, suggesting that Chemo...
Chemobrain in Underserved African American Breast Cancer Survivors. Although research has been conducted to address specific medical and psychosocial needs of breast cancer survivors, little has been done to address needs a... - 《Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing》 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 ACOG ...
Thyroid Cancer Choose Specialty April 1, 1998 Publication Article OncologyONCOLOGY Vol 12 No 4 Volume12 Issue4 Traditionally, cytotoxic drugs have played a limited role in the treatment of brain tumors, but important advances in chemotherapy have occurred during the past decade. Certain central nervou...
Three widely used chemotherapy drugs can cause permanent damage to healthy brain cells, a new animal study suggests. The work could explain a range of cognitive problems collectively called "chemobrain," which may leave as many as 80% of all cancer patients with memory loss, confusion, and an...
These conditions are generally linked to chemotherapeutic drug side effects, commonly referred to as chemobrain. Recent studies have found symptoms of chemobrain in patients prior to receiving a course of chemotherapy, however. For the current study that evaluated breast cancer patients, researchers ...
Women fighting breast cancer can relieve some of their chemotherapy brain fog through aerobic exercise, a new clinical trial in Canada suggests. Breast cancer p