January 13th, 2021Statins may protect women's hearts from damage caused during chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer, according to a cohort study.
"Two types of cancer...
A woman who was left infertile by cancer treatment has given birth to a baby after her immature eggs were collected, matured in a lab and frozen for use five years...
January 8th, 2020
Testicular cancer can be prevented from coming back using half the amount of chemotherapy that is currently used, a clinical trial has shown. In many men who have had...
A mother in the UK underwent a double mastectomy after doctors wrongly diagnosed her with an aggressive form of cancer, reports BBC News. Sarah Boyle, 28, was told she...
July 10th, 2019Cancer patients who refuse conventional treatment and opt for alternatives are two and a half times as likely to die within five years of being diagnosed....
Immunotherapy used with chemotherapy or on its own is a better first-line treatment for people with head and neck cancer that has returned than standard aggressive...Weekly Roundup
A 38-year-old woman with advanced breast cancer was denied potentially life-saving chemotherapy for nearly six weeks after the UK’s Home Office deemed her ineligible....
June 13th, 2018Findings from the ground-breaking Trial Assigning Individualised Options for Treatment (Rx) (TAILORx) trial, show no benefit from chemotherapy for 70% of women with the...
March 8th, 2017Cholesterol-lowering drugs used alongside chemotherapy have no effect on treatment outcomes for lung cancer patients, according to an Imperial College London randomised...
