The severity of COVID-19 infection varies in different populations. Having an underlying illness, in particular cancer, or being immunocompromised is one of the risk factors for higher infection rates and severe COVID-19 respiratory disease [5]. During the pandemic, cancer patients experienced a h...
‘Cancer patients are often less active than adults without cancer,’ said author Dr. Flavio D’Ascenzi, University of Siena, Italy. ‘However, exercise is essential for patients diagnosed with cancer who are under treatment, irrespective of the type of treatment.’ ‘Endurance training is more ...
COVID-19 disproportionately harms frail persons, including the elderly, and those with comorbid conditions, including cancer patients who are immunocompromised. Some people with cancer are at increased risk of serious illness if they get COVID-19, because their immune systems have been weakened by ...
“Patients receiving chemotherapy had lower antibody levels than patients receiving targeted therapy,” explained lead author Maximilian Mair. In both healthy individuals and cancer patients, antibody levels were higher after full immunization with the licensed coronavirus shots than after only one dose but...
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In view of the increasing use of chemotherapy in young sexually active and potentially fertile women, we performed a study of contraceptive use and advice given to women prior to starting chemotherapy for breast cancer. A questionnaire was mailed to 183 patients and was returned, completed, by ...
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. The drugs enter the bloodstream and travel through the body in order to kill cancer cells. The side effects come from the fact that it destroys normal cells as well as cancer cells. Chemotherapy may be given either alone or along with radiation ...
Doctors advice for cancer patients is: 1) if you dont prescribe vitamins for a certain reason during chemotherapy, youd better not take it yourself. 2) after chemotherapy, ask the doctor when he can take vitamins. 3) patients who eat a balanced diet can get plenty of vitamins. Types of ...
elicited EVs. ANXA6 is detected, and potentially enriched, in the circulating EVs of breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy. This is a preview of subscription content,access via your institution Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals...
Despite the great clinical response to the first-line chemotherapeutics, metastasis still happens among most of the ovarian cancer patients within 2 years. Using multiple human ovarian cancer cell lines, a transwell co-culture system of the carboplatin o