Skip Chemo? That could come soon for more patients
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Doctors are closer to predicting which cancer patients can skip chemotherapy and avoid the brutal side effects of that staple of cancer care, doctors at a major medical meeting said on Tuesday.
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A new Web site and toll-free phone number unveiled this week should make it easier for patients to find clinical trials for cancer drugs.
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NEW YORK  - Some types of chemotherapy are  known to be potentially damaging to the heart, but for most  women with breast cancer the benefits appear to outweigh the  risks, French 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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A third of cancer patients are using complementary and alternative therapies, research suggests.
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New studies are raising questions about whether drugs that have been used by millions of cancer patients might actually be harming them.
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The Kootenai Medical Center's North Idaho Cancer Center will begin offering some patients the option of taking part in trials of experimental cancer drugs, starting in January.
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Terminally-ill cancer patients should not believe that they can put off dying to avoid missing significant events such as birthdays, weddings, or Christmas, say scientists.
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NEW YORK  - People with advanced cancer may suffer substantial emotional distress, but relatively few may be discussing it with their doctors, new research suggests.
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About half of the patients in the US with aggressive non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma, (NHL), cancer of the lymph glands, are not receiving the full dose of chemotherapy that
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Patients volunteering for early trials of experimental cancer drugs may be far safer today than their counterparts were a decade ago.
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but a longer life is not one of them, researchers reported yesterday. Writing in The Journal of Clinical Oncology
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations, as just a small number of eligible patients
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Cancer patients can often feel baffled when offered a choice of treatments, a study has suggested.
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TUESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority of potentially harmful errors in chemotherapy for children with cancer do find their way to these young patients, a new study finds.  And they are more often caused by dispensing or administration mistakes than by prescribing mix-ups, the researchers found.
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A new genetic test could one day spare many women diagnosed with breast cancer from the rigors of chemotherapy, a new study says. But at least one cancer expert says more