What Doctors Don't Tell YouToo many patients are being given chemotherapy, even when it is clear that the drugs have not been effective and they are near death. ...
A woman has been diagnosed with myeloma and is still waiting for skeletal x-ray and bone marrow test results. Can anyone recommend anything to help counteract the side effects of chemotherapy (which she is starting soon) and to help boost her immune...
An early report of a recent trial has shown that high dose chemotherapy does not improve survival in women with metastatic breast cancer (Lancet, 2000; 355: 905). ...
High dose chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplant is not an effective way to improve breast cancer survival rates, according to the preliminary results of four ongoing clinical trials. ...
High dose chemotherapy for breast cancer a controversial treatment unsuccessfully tried by Linda McCartney, the wife of ex Beatle Paul is dangerous and of little benefit, four trials have conclude ...
Researchers from Belgium, France, the US and Poland have concluded that just because a tumour 'responds' to chemotherapy doesn't automatically mean a better chance of patient survival. ...
Children who are successfully treated for Hodgkin's disease are 18 times more likely to go on and develop secondary malignant tumours, while girls face a 35 per cent chance of developing breast ca ...
Combined drug treatment for ovarian cancer is not more effective than single drug treatment, a new study reveals. ...
Only a quarter of patients actually feel better after having palliative chemotherapy, a small study reveals. The study looked at the overall sense of well being of women with breast cancer before ...
There is no evidence to support the use of high dose chemotherapy over standard regimens in breast cancer treatment, say researchers in the Netherlands. ...
