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...
I don’t want to give a fake perception of metastatic breast cancer; I have so many friends who are in such a hard place. The reality of the disease is terrifying, and I’ve had friends who died six months after their diagnosis. But it’s a diverse disease, and you don’t know ...
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...
Christina Heiser is a health reporter and writer specializing in overall wellness, nutrition, and beauty and skincare; she has held previous staff positions at Women’s Health, Everyday Health, and Webedia. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below ...
Apoptosis has been established as a mechanism of anti-cancer defense. Members of the BCL-2 family are critical mediators of apoptotic cell death in health and disease, often found to be deregulated in cancer and believed to lead to the survival of malign
I’m 37. I was just starting to feel more normal after a c section and the complete shock of having a newborn baby when I didn’t know a thing about babies before. I’ve had two surgeries, eight rounds of chemo and am about to start radiotherapy. After that it’s 10 years of ...
Though cells can commit suicide by multiple ways, most cell death in vertebrates is mediated by the mitochondrial (intrinsic) pathway that is initiated by a plethora of signals, such as DNA damage, growth factor deprivation, developmental cues as well as many standard anti-cancer therapies. The ...
I have Multiple Myeloma, was diagnosed in 2007 and had a stem cell transplant and subsequent chemo treatments beginning in 2011 when the myeloma again raised its head. Now, having been through all the current standard of care drugs with a continual increase in myeloma activity, I am going on...
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...