Chemo drugs 'destroy brain cells'
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Chemotherapy produces long-term changes in the part of the brain dealing with memory, research suggests.
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For nearly two years Jane Bissell struggled to get out of bed in the morning. Gripped by terrible headaches and fatigue, the Whangaparaoa woman thought it was the after-effects of chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
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Responding to a spate of deaths in clinical trials, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued its most severe warning possible for drugs widely used to treat anemia in kidney disease patients and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
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Scientists have shown that a common antibiotic can turn off cancer cells in mice, offering hope of new treatments for cancer patients.
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A chemical found in shampoo and hand lotions may damage the developing nervous system, research suggests.
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Cancer patients are being put at risk because of the refusal of drug companies to publish the results of clinical trials, scientists claimed yesterday.
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MONDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDayNews) -- The breast cancer drug tamoxifen may cause a slight increase in stroke risk, says a Duke University Medical Center study in the Oct. 12 issue of Neurology.
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Genentech Inc colon and lung cancer  drug Avastin, along with standard chemotherapy, increases  survival rates of patients with a very deadly type of brain  tumor, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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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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Chemotherapy causes changes in the  brain's metabolism and blood flow that can last as long as 10  years, a discovery that may explain the mental fog and  confusion that affect many cancer survivors, researchers said  on Thursday.
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Agricultural workers exposed to high levels of pesticides have a raised risk of brain tumours, research suggests.
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Genentech Inc colon and lung cancer drug Avastin, along with standard chemotherapy, increases survival rates of patients with a very deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Many women who have been treated for breast cancer complain of memory problems and an inability to concentrate. The complaints of fuzzy thinking are so common that cancer survivors have a name for the phenomenon - &quot;chemo-brain.
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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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Drugs originally developed to treat Alzheimer&#39;s disease may also be effective in treating a kind of cancer that strikes hundreds of children every year, according to new research.
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In general, chemotherapy appears to increase the risk of stroke in patients with breast cancer. However, researchers report in the October 20th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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USING pesticides on house plants could more than double your risk of developing a brain tumour, a study suggests.   Those who use fly sprays, weedkillers and other chemical treatments on their pot-plants are 2.25 times more likely to develop brain cancer, the findings show.