A nurse practitioner-driven palliative care intervention improves cancer patients' quality of life
Recent studies have shown that palliative care interventions aimed at addressing patients' emotional, spiritual and social needs have a significant impact on cancer patients' quality of life and may even improve cancer patients' ...
Cancer
May 18, 2012 |
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ASCO: Dabrafenib/Trametinib active in metastatic melanoma
(HealthDay) -- For patients with V600 BRAF-mutant solid tumors, treatment with the oral BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib and the oral MEK 1/2 inhibitor trametinib is tolerated and has clinical activity in BRAF inh ...
Cancer
May 17, 2012 |
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Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy optimal for localized prostate cancer
A treatment for localized prostate cancer known as Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is better than conventional conformal radiation therapy (CRT) for reducing certain side effects and preventing cancer recurrence, ...
Cancer
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Urgent research needed to determine most effective follow-up care for lung cancer patients
Scientist say there is an urgent need for research into all aspects of follow-up care in lung cancer. The study presented in the May 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of ...
Cancer
Apr 15, 2012 |
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Exercise improves quality of life during breast cancer treatment
Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer might fight off distressing side effects and improve psychological well-being by staying off the couch. According to the University of Miami (UM) study, women who are physically ...
Cancer
Apr 14, 2012 |
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Second mutation in BRAF-mutated melanoma doesn't contribute to resistance
A second mutation found in the tumors of patients with BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma does not contribute to resistance to BRAF inhibitor drugs, a finding that runs counter to what scientists expected to be true.
Cancer
Apr 01, 2012 |
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Mechanism found connecting metastatic breast cancer and arthritis
Working with mouse models, researchers have found a strong connection between autoimmune arthritis and increased aggressiveness in metastatic breast cancer. The connection appears to involve the tendency of autoimmune arthritis ...
Immunology
Apr 01, 2012 |
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Adherence to cancer surveillance guidelines varies
(HealthDay) -- Insured breast cancer survivors have high rates of guideline-recommended recurrence testing and non-recommended metastatic testing, while only about half of colorectal cancer survivors undergo ...
Cancer
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Prophylaxis with apixaban feasible for cancer patients
(HealthDay) -- Primary venous thromboembolism prophylaxis with apixaban, an oral direct Factor Xa inhibitor, in ambulatory cancer patients undergoing first- or second-line chemotherapy for advanced or metastatic ...
Cancer
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Cryoablation therapy spot-freezes breast cancer tumors
Individuals fighting metastatic breast cancer, where the disease has progressed to other areas of the body, may finally have another weapon in their arsenal: percutaneous cryoablation. The cancer treatment could potentially ...
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Mar 26, 2012 |
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Scientists identify new mechanism of prostate cancer cell metabolism
Cancer cell metabolism may present a new target for therapy as scientists have uncovered a possible gene that leads to greater growth of prostate cancer cells.
Cancer
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Response rate high for some patients with metastatic melanoma treated with vemurafenib
An international team of researchers from the United States and Australia, including researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found that the oral BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib (PLX4032) when tested in a phase ...
Cancer
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Study finds association between genetic mutation and age at diagnosis for common childhood cancer
Certain mutations of the gene ATRX were associated with age at diagnosis in children and young adults with advanced-stage neuroblastoma, a cancer that grows in parts of the nervous system, according to a study in the March ...
Cancer
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Researchers report progress in cancer immunotherapy
In a bid to make cancer immunotherapy more effective, researchers report they have succeeded in halting the progress of aggressive melanoma in its tracks - at least briefly - in seven patients treated with an army of cloned ...
Cancer
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Scientists uncover mechanism for melanoma drug resistance
Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it.
Cancer
Mar 06, 2012 |
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