Alternative Cancer Treatment

Medscape
New Cancer Agent Debuts in Multiple Cancers
Medscape
The problem of resistance to targeted therapies "has its limitations," she noted. "Blocking one pathway can lead to the emergence of another," she explained. An "alternative viewpoint" proposed by Dr. Topalian is that "cancer is an immunologic disorder ...

Counsel & Heal
Research Shows Promise in Using Immune Therapy on Ovarian Cancer
Counsel & Heal
In this subset, 73 percent of the people's cancers were either stabilized or significantly shrunken. "This is definitely a vast unmet need for the development of novel, alternative therapies," she said. Kandalaft believes that this kind of treatment ...

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Reply to Dr. Alan Markoff
Marianas Variety
“The statements made by Mason relative to the issue of cancer treatment, the FDA, and Oncologists, really trouble me. ... When I worked at the medical journal (Alternative & Complementary Therapies) I had two editors, and they were sticklers. Usually ...

Cancer Research UK (press release)
Blood test shows cancer evolution
Scotsman
The scientists at the University of Cambridge used traces of tumour DNA found in cancer patients' blood to follow the progress of the disease as it changed over time and developed resistance to chemotherapy treatments. Six patients with advanced breast ...
Scientists develop simple blood test to track tumour evolution in cancer patientsCancer Research UK (press release)

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ScienceBlog.com
Novel Drug Combination Showed Antitumor Activity in Patients With Incurable ...
Newswise (press release)
This abstract will be presented at a press conference, “Treatment and Resistance to Targeted Therapies,” hosted by Levi Garraway, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine in the department of medical oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, at ...
Some incurable BRCA patients respond to new 2-drug comboScienceBlog.com (blog)

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Mother, Warrior
Stockton Record
She has no choice but to fight - with weekly chemotherapy treatments, Erbitux infusions, organic produce, extensive juicing, dozens of pills daily, positive thinking and a search for alternative remedies. How you can help. Stockton resident Deidra ...

This is Grimsby
MY STORY: Life after being diagnosed with cervical cancer at 26
This is Grimsby
Consultants were forced to find an alternative to save her life and she was given a trachelectomy, which removes cancer from the neck of the womb – a procedure only available if the cancer is caught at an early stage. However, although not as ... She ...

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Affordable Care Act insurance funding for pre-existing conditions falling short
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Critics say $5 billion was never enough to fund the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Program, or PCIP, and that financial problems were exacerbated by overrepresentation by enrollees with very serious medical conditions -- such as cancer and heart ...

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Alternative radiation for cancer; intestinal human stem cells; turtle genome
Examiner.com
Alternative radiation for cancer. In an April 4 article, Asian News International (ANI) reports on promising research about an alternative cancer treatment: boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). A study was published online March 27, ahead of the print ...

Daily Mail
Its tree logo was designed by his sister Rosemary who died in bowel cancer
Daily Mail
Like most people who endure gruelling cancer treatment, she was incredibly frail at the end of it, but when we learned she was in complete remission in 1991, we were elated. At the time I was just launching Mulberry's home furnishings range and ...

Reel Life With Jane
Karen Black Thanks Fans for Support; Karen Black: On Acting Available
Reel Life With Jane
The surgery was risky and dangerous according to her husband, Stephen Eckelberry, who wrote a letter on GoFundMe to raise money for his wife's alternative treatment in Europe, which is not covered by insurance. In June of last year the cancer returned ...

ESPNcricinfo.com
An inspiring story, simply told
ESPNcricinfo.com
It meant that he was guaranteed the best treatment, a clear path back to his sport, and sufficient media space to tell his story. Not surprisingly, he became the best-known cancer survivor in the country, and even if the occasional tasteless ...

East and West, old and new: Local doctor mixes medical traditions
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
“In my current practice, I combine several alternative treatment modalities — such as EFT, TAT [Tapas acupressure technique], focusing and hypnosis — to give my patients the potential benefits of each technique and to select what works best for each ...

Individualized genomic testing allows for tailored cancer treatment, new drug ...
Medical Xpress
Identifying patients who are likely to have a poor prognosis if treated with first-line therapies, which allows clinicians to set up a cascade of alternative therapies or, in the case of some blood cancer patients, expedite the search for a matching ...

MedPage Today
Guide for Lung Cancer Gene Tests Published
MedPage Today
"Any oncologist should be able to provide this testing and should do this testing to give their patients optimal care," Gregory Riely, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York city, said in the video ...

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Counting Copy Numbers Characterizes Prostate Cancer
Science Daily (press release)
... numbers of specific areas of chromosomes. It is even possible to separate out patients who develop resistance against hormone deprivation therapy, which is the most common form of treatment in men with metastatic prostate cancer. ... Discussing the ...

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As Medical Tourism Grows, MedFlight911 Air Ambulance Fills the Need for ...
PR Web (press release)
On December 24, 2012, Stephanie Deasy, one of MedFlight911 Air Ambulance's former patients, passed away following a lengthy battle with lung cancer. MedFlight911 first got to know Stephanie when the worldwide air ambulance service company helped ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Company profits depend on the 'welfare payments' they get from society
The Guardian (blog)
Earlier this week, India's supreme court ruled that the country will not grant a patent to Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, for the cancer drug, Glivec. Being a new version of an existing drug, the ruling said, it does not deliver enough ...
Major victory on affordable drugsIndependent Online

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Counting copy numbers characterises prostate cancer
Medical Xpress
It is even possible to separate out patients who develop resistance against hormone deprivation therapy, which is the most common form of treatment in men with metastatic prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in ... Discussing the ...

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6 Biotechs with Staggering Potential: Grant Zeng
Jutia Group
We believe NeuVax could be a meaningful alternative for the treatment of breast cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the U.S. alone, approximately 202,964 individuals are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. Of ...

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