Search Tag: Chemotherapy

Executive Health Management

Aerobic-exercise-offers-potential-pain-relief-for-ovarian-cancer-survivors

2023 14 Aug

Patients undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer often encounter peripheral neuropathy, an adverse effect of chemotherapy that can lead to persistent pain and numbness lasting for months or even years.   A recent Yale study suggests that engaging in aerobic exercise for a period of up to six months can offer relief from this side effect.  ...Read more

Executive Health Management

Prosca-bladdr-2022

2022 18 Oct

Hybrid Event PROSCA: 18 & 19 October 2022 BLADDR: 20 & 21 October 2022 Find Mirrors of Medicine on Social Media Read more

Cardiology Management

Onco-cardiology-consensus-paper-from-germany

2020 27 May

There is sufficient clinical evidence to show that the use of certain chemotherapeutic drugs is associated with cardiac toxicity. In many cases, the impairment in cardiac dysfunction caused by these drugs is lifelong and can severely impair the quality of life of patients. While many drugs continue to be approved to treat malignancies, the cardiac...Read more

Executive Health Management

The-death-of-cancer-the-patient-perspective

2019 26 Aug

Summary: Cancer affects everybody's life at some point. ‘The Death of Cancer,' written by one of oncology's leading figures, Dr Vincent T. DeVita, documents his own journey for the cure. Dr Peter Kapitein gives his personal review on the book.   In 2005 I was diagnosed with lymph gland cancer and became interested in the medical industrial...Read more

Executive Health Management

Hyperthermia-an-amplifier-for-radiation-therapy-1

2018 07 Nov

Hyperthermia can further enhance the therapeutic outcomes of radiation and chemotherapy, while keeping side effects at a minimum. A treatment method with many advantages. What is hyperthermia? Hyperthermia is the intentional overheating for therapeutic purposes, either throughout the body or in individual organs. The method of directly...Read more

IMAGING Management

Pet-tomo-helps-hodgkin-lymphoma-patients-avoid-chemo

2016 26 Jun

Research on 1,200 patients in the UK, European and Australia has found that the use of positron emission tomography (PET) scans can spare patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma the serious side effects of chemotherapy. The study, led by Peter Johnson , Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Southampton, and published in the...Read more

IMAGING Management

Radiation-chemo-combo-prolongs-survival-in-low-grade-brain-tumour

2016 11 Apr

Patients with glioma – a low-grade type of brain tumour – who received radiation therapy plus a chemotherapy regimen, including procarbazine, lomustine and vincristine (PCV), experienced a longer progression-free and overall survival than patients with only radiation therapy, according to the results of the clinical trial, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group...Read more

IMAGING Management

Chemoresistance-explained-new-clues-in-small-cell-lung-cancer

2016 04 Apr

Researchers in Austria have unraveled how small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is not usually detected until it is at an advanced stage, when metastases have already formed. Chemotherapy is very effective initially but, within a year, cancer recurs and this time does not respond to a course of chemotherapy, they said. The research group headed by Gerhard...Read more

IMAGING Management

Netherland-s-zin-to-reimburse-sirt-for-failed-treatment-in-colorectal-liver-metastases

2016 17 Mar

The Netherlands Healthcare Institute, Zorginstituut Nederland ( ZIN ), has agreed to reimburse Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) for patients with colorectal liver metastases who have failed on or are intolerant to prior chemotherapy. The ZIN based its decision on clinical evidence of the efficacy and safety of SIR-Spheres Y-90 resin...Read more

IMAGING Management

Mri-analytics-identifies-best-treatment-for-breast-cancer

2016 23 Feb

Faster, cheaper test predicts who needs chemotherapy or just hormonal regimen   A new way to analyse magnetic resonance images (MRI) data for women with the most common type of breast cancer appears to reliably distinguish between patients who would need only hormonal treatment and those who also need chemotherapy, researchers from...Read more

Executive Health Management

Where-would-you-like-to-die

2016 25 Jan

If you compare how people near the end of life are treated in the U.S. and other regions of the world, you will find very specific differences. In the U.S, such patients are typically attached to tubes and machines. They also have to go through invasive procedures and because of the fact that they are inundated with all these measures, most of the...Read more

Executive Health Management

Treatment-of-elderly-cancer-patients

2015 06 Oct

Results from the largest international comparison of the treatment of elderly patients with breast cancer show that significant differences exist in the use of surgery, hormone therapy and chemotherapy between European countries. The European Registration of Cancer Care (EURECCA) study compared the treatment of elderly patients (70 years...Read more

ICU Management

End-of-life-why-these-conversations-matter

2015 23 Jul

The original Obamacare proposal sought to grant compensation for physicians for providing counselling to patients about living wills and end-of-life care options. The Affordable Care Act, which was enacted in 2010, however, includes no such compensation. The issue has been resurrected when the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced...Read more

IMAGING Management

Pet-scan-after-chemo-could-avoid-need-for-radiotherapy

2015 23 Apr

A positron-emission tomography (PET) scan immediately after treatment with chemotherapy can identify patients who have a very good outcome without additional radiotherapy, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine . The "RAPID" trial involved 602 Hodgkin lymphoma patients who had a PET scan performed after their chemotherapy....Read more

Executive Health Management

Fasting-improves-efficacy-of-low-toxicity-cancer-drugs

2015 01 Apr

Breast, colorectal and lung cancers may respond to a less-toxic class of drugs as well as they do to chemotherapy when the drugs are used in combination with fasting. The results of two new studies in mice, conducted by a multinational collaboration of researchers, have been published in the March 30 issue of Oncotarget . Starving Cancer Cells...Read more

Pharmacy Management

Palbociclib-effective-for-hormone-resistant-breast-cancer

2015 27 Feb

Results of a Phase II study led by researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania show that Palbociclib, an oral medication that works by blocking molecules responsible for cancer cell growth, is well tolerated and extends progression-free survival (PFS) in newly diagnosed, advanced breast...Read more

IMAGING Management

Ultrasound-can-id-breast-cancer-patients-who-need-lymph-nodes-removed

2015 02 Feb

A Mayo Clinic-led study shows that not all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with chemotherapy before surgery need to have all of their underarm nodes taken out. Researchers say that ultrasound is a useful tool for judging before breast cancer surgery whether chemotherapy eliminated cancer from the underarm lymph nodes. The findings...Read more

IT Management

New-robotic-surgery-for-head-and-neck-cancers

2014 09 Dec

UCLA researchers have reported that they have advanced a surgical technique performed with the help of a robot to access a previously-unreachable area of the head and neck. “This is a revolutionary new approach that uses highly advanced technology to reach the deepest areas of the head and neck,” said Dr. Abie Mendelsohn, lead author of the study....Read more

Cardiology Management

Euroecho-cancer-drugs-encapsulation-reduces-heart-damage

2014 05 Dec

Echocardiography detects early deterioration of heart function allowing prevention medication to be given Austrian researchers have shown that a new technique which wraps chemotherapy drugs in a fatty cover (called a liposome) reduces heart damage, in a study presented today at EuroEcho-Imaging 2014 by Professor Jutta Bergler-Klein and Professor Mariann...Read more

IMAGING Management

Pelvic-radiotherapy-may-benefit-ovarian-cancer-patients

2014 24 Nov

Researchers from Loyola University Health System (LUHS) have found that pelvic radiotherapy (RT) may help treat a rare form of ovarian cancer that can recur in women after surgery and chemotherapy. The study examined 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to...Read more

IMAGING Management

Ecio-2014-leading-cancer-conference-comes-to-berlin

2014 28 Mar

The European Conference on Interventional Oncology presents new ways to treat cancer  Over 1,000 medical professionals from around the world are expected to attend The world’s leading radiologists, oncologists and surgeons will be coming to Germany this April for the European Conference on International Oncology (ECIO), held at the...Read more

IMAGING Management

Mri-detects-early-effects-of-chemotherapy-on-children-s-hearts

2013 19 Jun

MRI scans of children who have had chemotherapy can detect early changes in their hearts, according to a study published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Chemotherapy with anthracyclines, such as Doxorubicin, is one of the most effective treatments against many types of cancer, including leukaemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast,...Read more