News : Chemotherapy

Fasting apparently protects normal cells by reallocating energy toward maintenance pathways from reproduction and growth processes when nutrients are scarce or absent.
A recent article in Science Translational Medicine revealed evidence of a “significant” reduction in the growth of cancerous tumors subjected to short cycles of fasting.  Fasting was found to improve the effect of chemotherapy but also worked...

Cancers shrank for about one third of the patients who could be evaluated, and disease stabilised for a further third. For one patient, all signs of their cancer disappeared.
A naturally-occurring harmless human virus may be able to boost the effects of two standard chemotherapy drugs in some cancer patients, according to early stage trial data published today in Clinical Cancer Research.

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BOCA RATON, Fla., October 3, 2011 — When breast cancer patients like Ellen Jacobs of Shelbyville, Kentucky goes through chemotherapy, the last thing they think about is cleaning their homes.

“Chemotherapy is like having the worst flu. I would feel like a truck ran over me,” she says. “My bones ache everywhere and I would get very bad headaches. I would get so nauseous that I can’t even lift my head up.”

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Innovative Skincare offers relief for those challenged by the effects of cancer treatments
Each October, Innovative Skincare® organizes its annual iS CANCER CARE Spa Days, where volunteers, including dermatologists, medical aestheticians, massage therapists, and others from UCLA/Revlon Breast Center and the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center give special treatments to participants in the...