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...
Among women with stage I to II breast cancer receiving chemotherapy, those who underwent scalp cooling were significantly more likely to have less than 50% hair loss...Weekly Roundup
SA cancer patient Walter Pike expects he will live for just three more years if medical aid scheme FedHealth continues to refuse to pay for 'effective' experimental...Oncology
Young and middle-aged patients with colon cancer are 2 to 8 times more likely to receive post-operative chemotherapy than older patients, yet study results suggest no...
October 12th, 2016Clinical data shows Merck's Keytruda immunotherapy offered big benefits in previously untreated lung cancer patients, either when given on its own or with chemotherapy,...
