Showing results for "#chemotherapy"
'Immunotherapy for lung cancer patients improves long-term survival'
The cancer immunotherapy atezolizumab significantly increased the overall survival of patients with advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer who were...
When is chemotherapy most effective? Research suggests, it varies with...
Brain tumours are among the trickiest to treat as the blood-brain barrier keeps foreign substances like germs and toxins from entering the brain.
Study reveals cancer cells may evade chemotherapy
Cancer cells can dodge chemotherapy by entering a state that bears similarity to certain kinds of senescence, a type of "active hibernation" that...
Chemotherapy lowers immunity, ups Covid infection risk: Experts
The impact of the pandemic has been disastrous for many, including cancer patients, as health experts on Thursday stressed that chemotherapy treatment...
Study focuses on finding way to stop chemotherapy from damaging heart
There could be an intervention on the horizon to help prevent heart damage caused by the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, new research suggests.
Heat treatment can make chemotherapy more effective: Study
"Our study shows the enormous potential of combining chemotherapy with the heat treatment delivered via magnetic nanoparticles," said senior author...
‘COVID impedes early breast cancer detection’: Medical oncologist
The number of breast cancer patients seeking treatment is down by 70 per cent in the past five months in spite of increased awareness programmes,...
Govt staff to get special leave for chemotherapy
A Government Order (GO) granting special causal leave to government staff undergoing chemotherapy for cancer was issued on Monday.