Although many people withesophageal cancer will go on to die from this disease, treatment has improved and survival rates are getting better. During the 1960s and 1970s, only about 5% of patients survived at least 5 years after being diagnosed. Now, about 20% of patients survive at least 5...
Chemotherapy is a powerful treatment, but it can cause many side effects. This is because it also kills fast-growing healthy cells, not just cancer cells. Everyone responds to chemo differently. Some people have only mild side effects, or none at all. Others might have one or two more seve...
Unfortunately dad passed October 24th. He went into the hospital on the 7th and never quite made it home. He had some fluid that had infection. They got the infection to clear up but I think the combination of the cancer, chemo, and all the meds he was on in the hospital was just t...
which is associated with stemness, and is expressed in hybrid E/M CTCs together with cytokeratins and nuclear TWIST1 [78] these CTCs are chemo-resistant [79]. CTCs isolated from patients with endometrial cancer display E/M plasticity and stemness resulting in enhanced survival and chemoresistance...
This is the essence of friendship to me. Some days you need a serious chat. Some days you need a friend to be silly with. Some days you need a friend to go shopping and have a gossip session with and try to put cancer in the back seat for a few hours. There are many w...