Chemotherapy can be a life-saving cancer destroyer. Unfortunately, the drugs don’t take aim solely at cancer. They can also kill hair, skin, and reproductive tract cells. This collateral damage leaves some chemotherapy patients with thinning hair, nail loss, uncomfortably dry skin, and ...
Chemotherapyis one of the most common treatments for cancer. It uses certain drugs to kill cancer cells or to stop them from growing and spreading to other parts of your body. Your doctor might prescribe chemo by itself or with surgery orradiation therapy. You might also take newer kinds of...
Changes in your taste and smell can make it hard to eat or drink enough. These changes can cause unwanted loss of appetite, low body weight, poor quality of life, and diminished well-being.3However, there arestrategies that can helppeople to cope with taste changes until they return to no...
Researchers at the University of Zurich have determined the three-dimensional structure of the receptor that causes nausea and vomiting as a result of cancer chemotherapy. The study explains for the first time why some drugs ...
Resisting Cancer Chemotherapy; Researchers Are Struggling to Learn How Cancer Cells Survive in the Presences of Lethal Drugs. the Aim Is to Prevent ResistanceRESISTING CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY Researchers are struggling to learn how cancer cells survive in the......
Discusses ways on how to treat and cope with male-pattern baldness. Drugs which can be used to treat baldness; Effectiveness of finasteride; Psychological problem which afflicts males who go bald; Effectiveness of the cognitive-behaviora... J Thornton - 《Gq Gentlemens Quarterly》 被引量: 0发...
Chemotherapy usually isn’t painful, especially if you get it as a pill or cream (forskin cancer). If you get it as a shot, you might notice the needle prick. Some people feel a mild burning when the drugs start to flow, but this goes away quickly. ...
A study was conducted by Zhang et al., to illustrate the role of T-type channels in glioma stem cells. The authors used mibefradil and shRNA with cytotoxic therapies to inhibit the T-type calcium channels. That downregulated the growth, stemness of glioma stem cells and diminished its ...
receptor that causes nausea and vomiting as a result of cancer chemotherapy. The study explains for the first time why some drugs work particularly well in ameliorating these side effects. The results also provide important insights into how to develop compounds to effectively tackle other disorders....
Medical oncologists: Administer medicines (such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, and immunology) to treat cancer4 Surgical oncologists: Remove tumors through surgery, and take tissue samples for biopsy testing Radiation oncologists: Apply radiation (radiotherapy) to treat cancer ...