Radiation improves breast cancer survival Adding radiation therapy to chemotherapy appears to prolong survival in breast cancer patients who have had surgery, according to a new report...
Doctors advise against vitamin C with cancer therapy Taking high doses of vitamin C while undergoing traditional cancer therapy may interfere with radiation or chemotherapy treatments and possibly protect the very cancer cells the treatments are designed to destroy, doctors said on Monday...
Turning up the heat kills cervical tumors Radiation therapy plus treatment to raise the temperature of a tumor is more effective than radiation alone in treating pelvic cancers, particularly cervical cancer, according to new study findings...
Therapy toxic, but promising for head and neck cancer A grueling regimen of chemotherapy and radiation can cure many cases of advanced head and neck cancer, results of a new study suggest. Besides improving survival, the treatment also reduces the need for aggressive surgery to remove the cancer...
Women can retain fertility after cervical cancer A surgery for cervical cancer enables some young women to later become pregnant and bear children, without increasing their risk of having cancer spread, according to a report...
Vitamins protect mice against cancer therapy side effects Adding to the growing number of studies on the role of antioxidant vitamins in cancer treatment, studies in mice show that a combination of vitamins A, C, and E helps reduce side effects of a new type of cancer therapy.
Prostate cancer not always recorded as cause of death With more than half of American men over the age of 80 suffering from two or more chronic diseases, the task of accurately indicating the "cause of death" on a death certificate when the time comes may not be easy.
