Between 2005 and 2015, as the opioid crisis in America came into focus, prescriptions for gabapentinoid medications—gabapentin and pregabalin—to adults with cancer saw a two-fold increase, a University of Michigan Rogel ...
Oct 28, 2019
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A worldwide coalition of researchers and clinicians has agreed that light therapy is among the most effective interventions for the prevention of oral mucositis, painful ulcers in the mouth resulting from cancer therapy.
Jul 9, 2019
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Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals offer something Medicare does not: In some cases, treatments meant to alter the course of a disease can be offered along with hospice care. Now Colorado researchers are looking ...
Nov 28, 2018
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A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine reveals an increasing number of women are learning about their breast cancer diagnosis over the phone. It's a finding that has prompted the MU School of Medicine ...
Sep 11, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Strength training might benefit breast cancer survivors who've undergone surgery, researchers suggest.
Dec 9, 2016
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Just four weeks of prehabilitation may be enough to help some cancer patients get in shape for surgery. That's according to a recent study of close to 120 colorectal cancer patients in Montreal. This potentially means that, ...
Dec 1, 2016
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Although there is some overlap, past research has shown that the challenges faced by African American breast cancer survivors differ somewhat from Caucasian women. But the studies that demonstrated difference were not designed ...
Sep 1, 2016
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New research from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital shows support interventions by child life specialists decrease sedation use and costs associated with cranial radiation therapy.
May 19, 2016
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Being able to predict that a patient will adversely react to a drug that's meant to be treating them is a key aim of personalised medicine, and could help to improve the patient's overall treatment.
Jan 22, 2015
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In her 28-year career, Dr. Deborah Axelrod, a New York physician, says she's had just one patient whose advanced breast cancer inexplicably vanished.
Sep 22, 2014
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