Women’s Health Newsflash: Cancer
Who has time to read it all? This week we’re doing a newsflash a day on the health topics you need to know about to stay healthy. yesterday we did breast cancer. Today’s topic: Cancer.
Treatment Can Make Cancer Stronger: But New Cancer Treatment ‘Revolution’ Under Way
What doesn’t kill cancer cells makes them stronger, Duke researchers have observed. Doctors use radiation and chemotherapy to destroy cancer cells. About half of patients are cured — that is, all of their tumor cells die. The other half of the time, some tumor cells survive treatment. These cancer cells are more aggressive than they were before treatment, says Mark W. Dewhirst, DVM, PhD, professor of radiation oncology at Duke University. Read More >>>
Cancer Rx: Move? Exercise May Have Role in Treatment
The standard weapons in the fight against cancer — surgery, chemotherapy and radiation — may soon be joined by something far simpler: exercise. New research shows that regular physical activity helps reduce the risk of recurrence of breast cancer and slows the advance of prostate cancer. Read More >>>
New Study Shows Potential to Treat or Prevent Viral Cancers
A new study, presented at the SNM 55th Annual Meeting, shows that radioimmunotherapy (RIT) targeting viral antigens offers a novel option to treat-or even prevent-many viral cancers by targeting cancer cells expressing viral antigens or infected cells before they convert into malignancy. Read More >>>
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