Medical

New Research Shows Promise For Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Patients To Reduce Treatment Side Effects!

Researchers at the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have now identified a new treatment that promises to help cancer patients with bone marrow transplants manage side effects better than current standard therapies, making the treatment more effective and safer.

Medical

New Targeted Radiotherapy For "Laser-Like" Precision Treatment Of Refractory Prostate Cancer With Fewer Side Effects!

Prostate cancer, which has been increasing in incidence worldwide in recent years, is now a more common cancer among Japanese men. Often, patients with prostate cancer have a poor prognosis and poor survival once they have developed multiple recurrent metastases after treatment with hormones and are difficult to treat with conventional radiotherapy.

Apparatus

New Discovery: Drug For Parkinson's Disease That May Reduce Chemotherapy Side Effects And Boost Cancer-Fighting Power!

A new study has found that Istradefylline, a drug already approved to treat Parkinson's disease, not only reduces the toxicity associated with the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, but also boosts its cancer-fighting power, promising a potential treatment to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy.

Disease

What Are The Side Effects Of Radiotherapy For Prostate Cancer? What Should Patients With Prostate Cancer Be Aware Of?

There are many ways to treat prostate cancer and radiation therapy is a common treatment for prostate cancer, but many prostate cancer patients want to know what the side effects of radiation therapy are.