A Stanford Medicine team has developed a novel antibody-based approach that prepares patients for stem cell transplants without relying on toxic chemotherapy or radiation. Credit: Stock A Phase 1 clinical trial has shown that an antibody developed at Stanford Medicine can prepare patients for stem cell transplantation while avoiding toxic side effects. A phase 1 clinical trial has demonstrated that …
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The TAR-200 bladder cancer treatment – credit, Johnson & Johnson Staggering results have been reported from a clinical trial of a new delivery method for chemotherapy drugs used to treat bladder cancer. Keck Medicine of USC reports that in the majority of cases the cancer disappeared after only three months of treatment, and almost half the patients were cancer-free a …
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Hair is an important part of our personal identity, so its loss during cancer treatment can be distressing at an already difficult time. However, this can be a positive sign that chemotherapy is working, and the hair usually grows back after treatment, said Desmond Tobin, a dermatological scientist at University College Dublin’s Charles Institute. Hair can look different after chemotherapy, …
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A woman who died from cancer after refusing chemotherapy to treat it was instead having five coffee enemas a day to beat the disease, an inquest into her death has been told. Paloma Shemirani, a 23-year-old Cambridge graduate, died after suffering a heart attack linked to her non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Royal Sussex County Hospital on July 24 last year. …
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Nathan Bevan BBC News, South East Gabriel & Sebastian Shemirani Paloma, who grew up in Uckfield in East Sussex, died aged 23 from a heart attack caused by her tumour A woman who died after refusing chemotherapy was having “five coffee enemas a day” under her mother’s care, her brother told an inquest. Paloma Shemirani, who had declined chemotherapy for …
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The trial enrolled 80 women aged 45 and older diagnosed with breast cancer who were about to start neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT), a type of chemo given before surgery to shrink tumors. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily or a placebo for six months, during their chemotherapy treatment. Source link
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