In many cases, surgery offers the best chance of getting rid of the disease, especially if it hasn’t spread to other parts of the body. Along with a traditional operation, doctors can also fight some types of cancer with: Laser surgery (beams of light) ...
At the 2024Miami Breast Cancer Conference, CURE® sat down with Dr. Jennifer Litton, from the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, who explained what patients can expect when on these hormone therapies — especially if they have not yet ...
Theoretically, it should be possible to prevent at least 50 % of cancer cases and deaths from them occurring by applying what we know about causation of cancer and at least a further 10 % of cancer deaths by screening. Yet, we seem unable to achieve this, though remarkable success has ...
These days, a surgeon would always prefer to confine his surgery to a localised removal e.g. breast lumps using lumpectomies; or bowel tumours and prostate cancer using key hole surgery, rather than having to perform larger cuts, greater tissue removal and extended recovery times. The for...
Stem cell transplants have been used to effectively treat multiple myeloma, lymphoma, leukemia, and neuroblastoma. By injecting stem cells into cancer patients, its natural healing properties can reverse the cancer cells and treat the damage. ...
Surgery remains the primary treatment for early-stage lung cancer, and most commonly that means a procedure called lobectomy, which removes about one-third to one-half of the lung with the tumor. Even in 2017, it's the onetreatmentthat offerspatientswith lungcancertheir best option for prolonge...
Patientsâ expectations of their treatment are a key determinant in their satisfaction with treatment. Expectations may encompass not only notions of the outcome of treatment, but also the process of treatment. This article explores the processes by which expectations are formed, differences ...
Locoregional Treatment in Patients With Metastatic Cervical Cancer: Benefit of Dose Escalation Strategies The objective of this work was to examine the benefit of an intensive locoregional treatment including an image guided adaptive brachytherapy (IGABT) among... A Laville,K Ka,R El-Ayachi,... -...
Chemotherapyforbreast canceruses medicine to killcancercells. You'll likely get the treatment as an infusion through a vein or as a pill. In most cancer centers, a large majority of patients will get an infusion through a central port in the chest wall, instead of in their arm. Your doc...
Although cryosurgery remains an investigational technique for treatment of localized prostate cancer, preliminary reports from several institutions demonstrate promising results. In the short term, most patients have undetectable cancer on follow-up biopsy and very low prostate-specific antigen levels. The ...