Breast cancer is the most common cancer globally, with around 2.3 million new cases every year, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). It represents one in eight cancer cases in both sexes and a quarter of all cancers in women, with 70% mortality occurring in resource ...
How Effective is the Treatment of Locally Advanced and Metastatic Breast Cancer in Developing Centres?: A Retrospective Review.breast cancerchemotherapysuboptimal treatmentuntreatedThe use of chemotherapy in advanced metastatic breast cancer remains a subject of controversy. The thought of MicKinnon et al...
Availability of effective treatment has been shown to have a profound, positive impact on survival of breast cancer patients. However, with passing of time treatment of breast cancer has become more complex and associated with increase of costs that puts an enormous burden on health care resources...
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the elderly: diffusion of treatment with rituximab and survival advances with and without anthracyclines Anthracycline-based chemotherapy (ABC) is the most effective therapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The addition of rituximab to ABC in control... ...
Chemotherapy is a medical treatment that is used to treat cancer using anti-cancer drugs. The drugs administered inhibit mitosis, or cell division of the cancer cells. One of the side affects is often hair loss, because the drugs usually also impact normal, healthy, fast-dividing cells, such...
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The study's insights could pave the way for the development of more effective cancer therapies, as targeting the identified pathway could potentially disrupt the self-renewal, chemoresistance, and metastatic potential of CSCs, which are often responsible for treatment failure and disease recurrence. ...
How to design your anti-breast cancer dietYour diet should depend on whether you are (A) at high risk for breast cancer (but never diagnosed with the disease); (B) in treatment; or (C) a breast cancer survivor finished with treatment. Each of these situations is addressed below. The ...
"Resistance to treatment is arguably the major issue facing patients with advanced cancers, for whom even effective treatments ultimately fail. We have uncovered a fundamental survival strategy that cancer cells use to develop resistance, and which has given us new possible therapeutic strategies," say...
Biomarkerscan be used as a monitoring tool during breast cancer treatment, and they can provide valuable insights in the development of the disease as well as the effectiveness of therapies. Their most revolutionary feature is how accessible testing is – which can be done with a sam...