Scientists shed new light on mechanism behind radiation bystander effect
More than half of cancer patients undergo radiotherapy, in which high doses of radiation are…
Browsing: treatment side effects
Immune-cell numbers predict response to combination immunotherapy in melanoma
Whether a melanoma patient will better respond to a single immunotherapy drug or two in…
Balance, gait negatively impacted after chemotherapy treatment
A single chemotherapy treatment can result in a significant negative impact on walking gait and…
ASCO 2017: Web-Based System for Self-Reporting Symptoms Helps Patients Live Longer
A randomized clinical trial of 766 patients shows that a simple intervention ̶ a web-based…
Do men have worse chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy than women?
Men seem to have worse chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy than women despite receiving similar cancer treatments, according…
Taking the heat out of hot flushes
COSA 2016: Around one in two health practitioners recommend an ineffective complementary remedy to women…
Cancer treatment as a double-edged sword
Even with today’s safer and more targeted anti-cancer drugs, scientists have been unable to satisfactorily…
Common prostate cancer treatment linked to later dementia
A new retrospective study of patient medical records suggests that men with prostate cancer who…