All posts tagged "Cancer Treatment"
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1.0KHealth NewsMan Gets Cyanide Poisoning From Apricot Kernels
A cancer patient in Australia got cyanide poisoning from ingesting an apricot kernel extract he was using to beat the disease. He...
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972Health NewsFDA Votes In Favor Of Gene Therapy To Treat Childhood Leukemia
A new treatment for leukemia could soon become the first gene therapy for cancer in the USA, after a Food and Drug...
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1.2KHealth NewsFDA Puts A Stop To Companies Selling Fraudulent Cancer Treatments
The US Food and Drug Administration has started cracking down on companies that have been making false claims about curing cancer. The...
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1.4KHealth NewsMother Accused Of Injecting Feces Into Son’s Cancer Treatment
A woman from Indiana is facing felony charges after she allegedly injected feces into her son’s IV bag while we was completing...
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1.6KHealth NewsChina And The USA In A Race To Apply Gene-Editing Technique On Cancer Patients
Chinese researchers have made scientific history at the first to have injected a person with genetically-modified cells, triggering what one doctors describes...
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1.7KHealth NewsA Tale Of Two Innovative Experimental Cancer Drugs
The race to find new cancer drugs continues as companies worldwide conduct experimental trials in the hopes of coming up with a...
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2.1KHealth NewsNew Cancer Treatment Might Be Found In Magnetized Drug Particles
In a breakthrough for both science and medicine, scientists at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have successfully used ultrasound to direct...
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2.3KMedicine NewsCancer Treatment Has Lead To ‘Extraordinary’ Results In New Trial
Scientists have discovered a new T-cell cancer therapy that has provided remarkable results in the treatment of cancer patients. According to the...
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2.7KMedicine NewsProton Beam Therapy Shows Promise In Treating Childhood Brain Cancer
A relatively new cancer treatment called proton beam therapy, or proton therapy for short, appears to treat the childhood brain cancer known...
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2.3KHealth NewsCancer Drug Cost Variation Sparks Debate In Europe, U.S.
Did you know that depending on what country you live in, you may pay considerably more money for the exact same cancer treatment...
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2.1KMedicine NewsAspirin Doubles Survival Rates In Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients
According to a new study presented at the 2015 European Cancer Congress in Vienna, patients who have already been diagnosed with gastrointestinal...
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2.7KHealth NewsCancer Sponge: Researchers Develop Implantable Device That Soaks Up Cancers Cells
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new implantable device designed to soak up cancer cells wandering throughout the body...
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3.2KScience NewsCone Snail Venom Could Cure Cancer And Addiction
Snails and slugs have proven to be a bothersome pest in gardens and devastating for farmers’ crops. However, a new study has...
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2.0KHealth NewsShaving Extra Tissue Cuts Breast Cancer Reoperation Rate In Half
Shaving an extra millimeter or two of surrounding tissue when removing a breast tumor can reduce the need for follow-up surgery by...
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1.7KMedicine NewsNew Cancer Drug Tests Might Not Be Reliable
Drug manufacturers are currently working on figuring out which new cancer drugs will work best based on a protein found in the...
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2.2KMedicine NewsImmunotherapy Drugs Could Revolutionize Cancer Treatment
Researchers meeting at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago are hailing immunotherapy — the prevention or treatment of...
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2.0KMedicine NewsWHO Adds Hepatitis C, Tuberculosis And Cancer Cures To Essential Medicines List
The World Health Organization (WHO) has expanded its list of essential medicines by adding several treatments for hepatitis C, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and a...
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1.6KMedicine NewsMany Breast Cancer Patients Receive More Radiation Than Necessary
Two-thirds of women who have lumpectomies to treat breast cancer are receiving radiation therapy that lasts twice as long as necessary, according...
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1.8KScience NewsCancer Detecting Nanoparticles In Development At Google X
Google’s semi-secret research facility known as Google X, also stylized as Google[x], is currently working on the development of tiny magnetic particles...
