Study Finds Brain Tumor Treatment Inconsistent
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Patients who develop the most common  kind of primary malignant brain tumor are sometimes given drugs  they may not need and deprived of others that might help,  medical researchers said on Tuesday.
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Avastin, one of a new family of drugs that starves tumors of their blood supply, can slow the growth of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer, researchers reported on Monday.
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Unlike cranial radiation,  chemotherapy for children with a certain type of leukemia does  not appear to have harmful long-term effects on intelligence,  even at high doses, a new study shows.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- A highly targeted treatment that relies on the patient's own stem cells improves outcomes for children with brain tumors called medulloblastomas, U.S. researchers report.
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SUNDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Not every cancer patient is reaping the benefits of advances in medical care, new research shows.
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Shark cartilage, once a hopeful-seeming new approach in cancer treatment, failed to help lung cancer patients live any longer, researchers said on Saturday.
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Scientists discover why a treatment for ovarian cancer only works in half of the patients who have it.
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Cancer patients' state of mind has no influence on their survival chances, according to a US study released Monday that contradicted a widespread belief in the power of positive thinking.
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Children with cancer often get the wrong dose of chemotherapy or are given the drug at the wrong time, and many require treatment because of the errors, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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A debate over an unproven hypothesis, which says cancers are fed by cancerous stem cells, could affect the direction of research.
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Even among relatively young  women with early-stage breast cancer, the side effects of  therapy can vary by age, according to a new study.
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Scientists have developed a treatment which may be effective against the most common and deadly form of brain cancer.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.
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Children who have undergone  radiation treatment for brain cancer tend to have lower grades  in school than their healthy peers, investigators in Finland  have found. Still, most survivors in their study group  completed the ninth grade at the appropriate age.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDayNews) -- Many oncologists who treat patients with brain tumors are prescribing anti-seizure medications too often while not using antidepressants and chemotherapy enough, researchers report.
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A glitch in a massive study on the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt &amp; Whitney will delay the release of the final report, researchers said Wednesday.
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A large new study is challenging the common practice of recommending that older men forgo treatment for early prostate cancer and instead wait to see whether the malignancy progresses.