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20 things you need to know about chemotherapy
Alternatives to Traditional Chemotherapy
Beware of taking too many drugs
Bisphonates in cancer treatment
Breaking down cancer cells defences
Chemo without the side effects
Chemotherapy and cancer drugs
Chemotherapy and constipation
Chemotherapy and Nausea
Chemotherapy Debate - Part 1
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Drugs and the cost of living
Fertility After Cancer - Part 1
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How Chemotherapy kills cancer cells
Managing cachexia
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Test for Circulating Cancer Cells, circulating tumour DNA and treatment effectiveness
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The future? Tackling cancer stem cells to defeat cancer
The Most Common Drugs Used in Treating Breast Cancer.
Treatment for Anaemia
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20 things you need to know about chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the use of chemicals to kill rogue cells. Historically these cancer drugs worked almost indiscriminately on rapidly dividing cells, usually poisoning them through free- ...
Alternatives to Traditional Chemotherapy
A new breed of cancer drugs BiologicsCancer drugs are changing fast. And Biologics are a part of this. One day soon (hopefully) the Weapons of Mass Destruction called chemotherapy drugs will ...
Beware of taking too many drugs
Now falling ill can be a drug side-effect.Taking a cocktail of prescription drugs has been much in the news in 2009 and 2010 as several stars of Holywood and music succumbed to a cocktail of drug ...
Bisphonates in cancer treatment
Could Bisphonates save women from Breast Cancer chemotherapy?Bisphonates are drugs that strengthen your bones. These bone drugs, as they are often called, are used to treat osteoporosis patients a ...
Breaking down cancer cells defences
Cancer cells are not stupid. They protect themselves. Often after an initial round of chemotherapy, they produce large amounts of P-glycoprotein to kick out the chemical toxins and protect themsel ...
Chemo without the side effects
Cancer Research UK is sponsoring the first human trials on a cutting-edge drug, SJG-136, which has had substantial anti-tumour activity in over 35 human tumour models so far examined. It’s very ea ...
Chemotherapy and cancer drugs
The Truth about Cancer DrugsHere CANCERactive covers chemotherapy and cancer drugs and we include our A to Z review of the top cancer drugs. In the past, several experts have c ...
Chemotherapy and constipation
Chemotherapy and constipationA great number of cancer patients undergoing orthodox cancer treatments such as chemotherapy suffer from constipation. Radiotherapy on the lower abdomen (for example f ...
Chemotherapy and Nausea
Nausea while undergoing chemotherapy is a common problem facing many cancer patients and depends on the chemotherapy drug used and your own personal biochemistry. But there is a lot you can d ...
Chemotherapy Debate - Part 1
Chris Woollams presents some arguments against chemotherapy; it's too blunt, can cause significant side-effects, damages the microbiome which is essential to your immune system, damages w ...
Chemotherapy Debate - Part 2
Originally published in November-December 2004 iconTo continue the debate, we asked three of our icon’s icons, plus Angela and Neil Dickson of SDRT, to comment on Chris Woollams’ article.Tony Howe ...
Drugs and the cost of living
Drugs – an expensive habitSquabble breaks out, as NICE says new kidney drugs aren’t cost effectiveAugust 2008 saw the usual spate of PR releases that we always get when NICE sets about ...
Fertility After Cancer - Part 1
Fertility after cancer - Originally published in February 2004 iconWhat’s the chance of having a child after treatment for cancer?Fertility after cancer - Part 1 of a vital report that effect ...
Fertility After Cancer - Part 2
Fertility after cancer The "Miracle" Babies: babies after cancerPart 2 of our report on ’fertility and cancer’.By Madeleine KingsleyAnyone doubting that there is, literally, new life after ca ...
How Chemotherapy kills cancer cells
Historically, chemotherapy set out to kill cancer cells by using the fact that they were rapidly dividing cells.Normal healthy cells burn carbohydrate in the presence of oxygen for their energy in ...
Managing cachexia
One of our doctors answers a patient question on how to manage cachexia, a condition where the chemotherapy drugs taken induce a dangerous weight-loss downward spiral, while avoidi ...
MGN-3
Chemotherapy’s Little Helper? MGN-3 BioBran or BioBran MGN-3 has become increasingly popular over the last half a dozen years. Many of the integrated doctors recommend it as p ...
Test for Circulating Cancer Cells, circulating tumour DNA and treatment effectiveness
How to test whether or not you have cancer; and which treatments might or might not work on your cancer! Sophisticated tests can now measure minute traces of cancer tumour DNA, (ctDNA) or circula ...
The different types of cancer drugs
This article explains, in a patient-friendly manner, the different types of anti-cancer drugs as more and more are launched, from immunotherapy, to chemotherapy, to mono-clonal antibodies, bisphos ...
The future? Tackling cancer stem cells to defeat cancer
Cancer Stem cells have now been found to lie at the heart of all cancers - breast, prostate, multiple myeloma etc. They control the growth and regrowth of a cancer. An ’inconvenient truth’ is that ...
The Most Common Drugs Used in Treating Breast Cancer.
Women with breast cancer, and even some of those who want to prevent breast cancer, will know of the Holy Trinity: Tamoxifen, Aromatase Inhibitors and Herceptin – the ‘chemotherapy&rsq ...
Treatment for Anaemia
"Cancer Fatigue"Anaemia is a common side effect of chemotherapy and often causes severe fatigue, leaving sufferers feeling excessively tired and unable to complete everyday tasks. Fatigue is a maj ...
What price Life?
Professor Karol Sikora is a leading British cancer specialist and medical director of Cancer Partners UK. He was one of the 37 authors of the Lancet Oncology Commission report published in October ...
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