Despite Doubts, Cancer Therapy Draws Patients
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Americans with prostate cancer are traveling abroad for a treatment that is not approved in the United States.
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Families of cancer patients may feel that regardless of medical opinion, the patient can will themselves to make it through Christmas.
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A cancer patients increasingly embrace alternative therapies, oncologists are calling for well-designed clinical trials to determine if they are helpful or harmful.
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A Delhi clinic is offering hope to the desperately ill. But the medical establishment is not convinced.
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Many women who have a mother, sister or daughter with breast cancer know that they are at increased risk of getting the disease. But a new clinic at the University of Arizona Cancer Center for women at high
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Cancer patients and others  rallied outside the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to  call for the approval of an experimental prostate cancer  therapy and wider access to unapproved drugs.
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Often, a patient's âhave you ever ...â question is less a therapeutic riddle to be solved than an expression of genuine skepticism that they can indeed be helped.
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New research finds that almost half of U.S. women diagnosed with a specific form of breast cancer need not undergo the discomfort of chemotherapy.
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Treatment errors often leave patients and families feeling guilty and afraid.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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Results of many clinical cancer trials are not finding their way into the public domain, leaving doctors in the dark when it comes to choosing the best cancer treatments for their patients, the charity Cancer Research UK warned Monday.
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NEW YORK  - People facing the prospect of  cancer treatment typically expect to suffer numerous side  effects -- often more than is actually likely -- a study  suggests.
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Some fear that doctors will steer patients to I.M.R.T. radiation therapy because it has higher profit potential.
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Many cancer survivors say they are committed to helping others with the disease or to solve a particular problem that they encountered in their own treatment.
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An ancient native American cancer treatment is shown to have a beneficial effect, despite scepticism.
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A Virginia teenage cancer patient appears to be improving less than a month after he won a court fight to forgo chemotherapy and seek alternative treatments, his doctor said Friday.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.