Patients should stay informed concerning relevant cancer therapies. There are three main types of cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. The utilization of drugs or medications in the battle against cancer is known as chemotherapy. A chemotherapy cocktail is a mixtu ...

According to a team of researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, whole brain radiation therapy often results in diminished cognitive function. Lead researcher Paul Brown, M.D., states that the risk for diminished cognitive function is much greater for cancer patients ...

For many years doctors have advised some diabetic and cardiac patients to exercise. Exercise tones muscles, burns calories, improves memory, enhances mood and now researchers have determined that exercise may be beneficial to cancer therapy patients. For years, the American Cancer Society ...

A hookah pipe is a smoking apparatus, often decorative in appearance, containing a chamber for heating tobacco. The smoke is then drawn with a mouth piece through a rubber hose after passing through water. A single smoking session may last as long as one hour. Smokers often visit hookah bars&n ...

Saccharin is a synthetic sweetener utilized as a calorie control measure in many foods and drinks. Constantin Fahlberg accidentally discovered saccharin while researching coal-tar derivatives at John Hopkins University in 1879. Despite some scientists trying to ban the sweet substance in 1911, the ...

Are you a cancer patient who is considering the immunotherapy treatment Yervoy?In this article I share some of my experiences with Yervoy.The treatment takes 4 months to complete. You will receive an infusion every 3 weeks. The period of time over which you receive the infusions is called the induc ...

Israeli researchers from the Tel Aviv University of Israel have developed a new delivery platform for chemotherapy drugs. The platform, or nanovehicle can effectively deliver up to two different types of chemotherapy drugs simultaneously to the cancerous organ in cancer patients. This is expected t ...