Discover what makes a good spinal surgeon and how to choose the best one for your situation. Elaine K. HowleyJan. 10, 2025 Dementia Doctors Learn about the types of providers who treat patients with age-related cognitive decline and dementia and how to get the most out of your initia...
Chemotherapy(or chemo) is a treatment that uses strong drugs to kill cancer cells and to stop and slow their growth. Since the drugs travel through the bloodstream, it can treat almost any type of cancer, anywhere in your body. Chemotherapy can also shrink tumors that are causing pain or o...
New breast cancer guidelines mean less chemo for patients; Treatments will be targeted to specific types of tumorsASSOCIATED PRESS
including a surgery to remove the tumour along with a lining of the surrounding area of healthy tissue. This procedure is called breast-conserving surgery. If the cancer is spread in areas greater than the breast, then it might not be possible for the doctor to do a conservative surgery...
Due to their efficiency and relatively less severe adverse effects compared to certain chemotherapies, ICIs are now approved for use in a wide range of solid and liquid tumours1. Unlike chemotherapy, which may cause severe adverse effects due to its non-specific action on rapidly dividing cells,...
As the molecular understanding of breast cancer continues to evolve, the search for treatment targets based upon tumor subtypes and gene expression patterns is intensifying. Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy, MD, who has focused much of her own research on novel therapeutics, has made the translation of em...
Lungs.Adenocarcinoma is most often found in the outer part of the lungs and grows more slowly than other types of lung cancer. You usually get it if you're a smoker or used to be one. Pancreas.This is an organ in the back of your belly, behind your stomach. It makes hormones and ...
FFPE (formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded) samples of 135 patients operated on for endometriosis and different types of ovarian cancer (EOC and HGSOC—high-grade serous ovarian cancer) were studied. Healthy ovarian tissue was used as a control group. From the expression panel of 754 miRNAs, 7 ...
Treatment with a low concentration of resveratrol significantly increased SOD activity in prostate cancer, liver cancer, and breast cancer cells, and resveratrol-induced SOD2 expression was observed in cancer cells [24]. As a chemo-preventive agent, resveratrol chronic supplementation decreased DNA ...
cancer with high levels of PD-L1 were treated with both chemo and immunotherapy, they were found to have an overall survival of 23 months. When chemotherapy alone was given, survival was only 16.1 months. The combined approach improves outcomes for people with this type of breast cancer.6 ...