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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NEW YORK  - Breast cancer patients who take  a multivitamin or extra vitamin E experience a smaller decrease  in important immune cells, a common side effect of  chemotherapy, new research suggests.
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A third of cancer patients are using complementary and alternative therapies, research suggests.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News)-- Compounds called growth factors, given to help cancer patients better tolerate chemotherapy and reduce infection, may actually boost their risk for leukemia or a bone marrow disorder later on, new research suggests.
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The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes
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Administering chemotherapy and radiation  before surgery for rectal cancer may not help patients live  longer, but it produces fewer side effects than when it is  given afterward, doctors reported on Wednesday.
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US researchers have found a way to use an antibiotic to correct a flaw in cancer cells that allows them to avoid the normal death process.
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MONDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Little more than one in eight phase II cancer clinical trials with encouraging results go forward to the larger, phase III stage that&#39;s needed to bring a new therapy to patients, a new study finds.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDayNews) -- The timing of systemic chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer does not affect patient survival or disease progression, say researchers reporting in the Feb. 2 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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The test could help about 80,000 women a year make better choices about how to treat their breast cancer, federal officials said. Half could safely skip chemotherapy, they said.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.
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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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At a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so. They call the cancer undetectable, or in remission. They tell patients they can quit seeing cancer specialists. They quote statistics and say chances are slim that the disease will come back.
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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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FRIDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- There were important advances in the detection and treatment of cancer this year -- more people than ever are now surviving the disease -- but cuts in government cancer research dollars could slow progress in the fight.
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Cancer patients can often feel baffled when offered a choice of treatments, a study has suggested.