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...o do it on own even if not approved by HMO.
Oncologist turns down request for PET but prescribes physical therapy. It took almost 6 weeks to get call to set up appt. for PT. Meanwhile I have PET. ...
... less than eight months later.
During the course of his cancer treatment, as it became apparent that chemotherapy and radiation treatments would not suffice, more medications were tried. My father ...
...by the physiotherapist and that no relief was possible even by operation (she deals only in breast related therapy). Is it true that there is no channel reconstruction possible?
Would seeing a consul...
...he medicines to work more effectively," Naismith says.
Ashwood plans to take his concept of "adventure therapy" to the next level. He intends to take a year off from his job as a senior analyst ...
...p the medicines to work more effectively,"
Naismith says.
Ashwood plans to take his concept of "adventure therapy" to the next level. He intends to take a year off from his job as a senior analyst at...
I do understand that there are many causes & kinds of short-term memory loss.
After chemotherapy, I was recovering & doing pretty good, until they put me on Arimidex. This caused a condition
...t prognosis but opted for a wide local excision plus reconstruction with an implant. The next step is chemotherapy (FEC) which I start next week and today I have been instructed to come off Tamoxifen ...
...s, which were tangling too badly for me to manage any more.
The woman who cut my hair, said that the chemotherapy had probably damaged the ends or something. ??? Even the conditioner she put on it,...
...est.
The bar chart typically shown to patients after surgery offers four post-surgery options: hormonal therapy alone, chemotherapy alone, hormonal therapy and chemotherapy combined, or no treatmen...
...(cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil) for 6 months.
Breast cancer commonly receives radiation therapy. Radiation therapy uses high energy rays (similar to x-rays) to kill cancer cells. It...
...ercise, dim lights in the evening, manipulating bedtime/rising time, avoiding naps, yoga, meditation, aromatherapy pillow sprays, drug (OTC & prescription), sleep clinic, and more I'm forgetting.)...
Sorry to bother you nice folks again but the more I learn, the more confused I become. A very nice informative poster asked me if I had something called a MUGA Scan. I researched what it was and kno
...rmal. Then I did a "Walk Away the Pounds" tape and my fingers and hand blew up like a balloon. I went to therapy and she showed me how to wrap my arm and told me that this will reduce the swelling i...
I am in my 3rd cycle of chemo (CMF) and will then undergo radiation and hormonal therapy. I asked my oncologist what my prognosis for this coming back and the possibility of getting mets in any part o
I'm new to his group I have a decision to make. My doctor con't remind me I need to take Hormone Therapy for five years. My concern is I have Osteoporosis and the chemo name taxol cyt which cause me t
MammaPrint has the ability to predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer.
Dr. Laura van 't Veer, from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, presented the data at the 2008 San Antonio
...e vein in my left arm which she usually does and she said the ones in my hands were worn out from the Chemotherapy treatments too. As some of you may recall, I wear a Lymphedema Alert Bracelet on my ...
Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of the Radiation
Pneumonitis after radiotherapy to chest wall, internal mammary chain and/or supraclavicular lymph nodes (for breast cancer)?
If so, what
...of the cervical area. I was told that showed degenerative changes. My oncologist referred me to physical therapy. Since both my upper arm and shoulder continued to hurt -- quite severe at times-- a...
... It seems to be an excellent drug - killing off tumours with fewer side effects than her previous FEC chemotherapy. One problem is that it is causing her finger nails to become detached. Has anybody...
Iressa Shows Promise For Treatment Of Metastatic Breast Cancer When Combined With Hormonal Therapy
Gefitinib, the once-promising drug formerly approved as a second line treatment for lung cancer, a
Does anyone have information on the optimum timing for radiotherapy after wide local excision for breast cancer?
...y relative just got confirmed to have breast cancer. She had the breast removed and will now go on to chemotherapy.
She has been referred to Jason Winters tea. Is this a genuine cure or at least help...
I've just been, with my wife, to the oncologist for her 6 month check-up following a rather delayed radiotherapy (started at 17 weeks post op).
Two things concern me (at least):
First, the surgeon s
My wife has recently started on a drug called capecitabine, an oral chemotherapy drug, for a recurrence of her breast cancer. This drug can cause hand-foot syndrome (redness & swelling of the skin
I had a lumpectomy, Nov. 1, then 4 AC treatments, the 30 rads. I finished all that on May 12. My breast is very sore internally on the side opposite the cancer site. There is also a tender spot near
Hi good folks,
My wife had her very first chemotherapy session today for stage 2 breast cancer - 4 months (dose-dense) A,C, & then Taxol. Her pre-med's were Zofran & Decadron. She is VERY
...emoved, along with my ovaries, uterus (complete hysterectomy), followed by radiation, but probably no chemotherapy unless the cancer has spread significantly. I don't have the time, energy or suppor...
...atients, including women who would have been told just a few years ago that they could skip it.
The added therapy mostly affects those women who are treated with mastectomy and chemotherapy, and have...
...rt of breast cancer treatment.
1897 Paul Ehrlich develops the side-chain theory--the root of his target therapy,or"magic bullet," concepts of drugs that go straight to their intended target to trea...
...described that can discriminate differing levels of anti-tumor activity occurring among different targeted therapy drugs. Nor can an available gene-based test identify situations in which it is advant...
...asic to determine this at this stage?
2. Understanding that my Mother is not interested in taking on chemo-therapy and radiation, or perhaps even major surgery, is there anything with light side effec...
...m utilized for the study was a functional profiling assay, which may be used to individualize antivascular therapy. It can be adapted for simple, inexpensive and sensitive/specific detection of tissue...
...ent.
For the record, I had a lumpectomy, and am scheduled for radiation following the completion of chemotherapy. The primary tumor was less than 2 cm, but there was extensive angiolymphatic invasio...
Hormone therapy doubles cancer risk
By Rashmee Z. Ahmed
Friday, August 8, 2003
London - In a damning blow to the multi-billion-dollar industry supplying hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to post-
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