"This study provides research-based evidence that social support helps with physical symptoms," said lead author Candyce H. Kroenke, ScD, MPH, staff scientist with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. …
Their study appeared in the March issue of Pattern Recognition. Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in men and women. According to the National Institutes of Health, the five-year survival rate (16.3 percent) is worse than many other cancers, such as colon (65.2 percent), breast (90.0 percent) and prostate (99.9 percent)…
Constantly regenerating and maturing, the hematopoietic (blood-producing) stem cells in our bone marrow produce billions of red blood cells (RBC) every day. Cancer chemotherapy is notorious for injuring the bone marrow, leading to anemia, or low RBC counts. But just how chemotherapy harms the bone marrow has not been clear. …
Chinese non-toxic adjuvant therapy of lung cancer Oncology, Lung Cancer is a common disease, surgical resection of early treatment of first choice. However, due to various reasons, medical treatment in most of the patients have to the late loss surgery opportunity. In recent years, Chinese medicine treatment of lung cancer has been the effect of… Read More »
Interventional therapy of lung cancer in the angiography, the catheter from the patient's femoral artery, into the arterial blood supply to the tumor (eg lung artery, hepatic artery of liver cancer, etc.), giving chemotherapy drugs, so that local lung cancer organizations to accept high concentrations of chemotherapeutic drugs to achieve the effect of increasing the… Read More »
Small cell lung cancer (sclc) is a highly malignant tumor. Lung cancer has a unique recalcitrant symptoms. In recent years, due to chemotherapy drugs, programs, innovative methods to chemotherapy, and multidisciplinary treatment in sclc made great progress in the long-term survival rate than in the past has greatly improved. Of limited (ld) sclc the most… Read More »
The latest international non-small cell lung cancer TNM staging published in 1997. TNM staging is by the so-called primary tumor (T), lymph node metastasis (N), distant metastasis (M) of the situation on the tumor staging, to reflect the extent of the tumor and the severity of the disease, as the development of treatment plans and… Read More »
Chinese medicine treatment of lung cancer, because lung cancer and the biological behavior vary widely, can be divided into small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer, both the degree of malignancy, and treatment trends and prognosis are quite different, so treatment needs combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, identified the combination… Read More »
How to treat bile duct cancer, cholangiocarcinoma that occurred in the extrahepatic bile duct (including the left hepatic duct, hepatic duct, common bile duct) cancer. Excluding intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, bile duct cell carcinoma of the liver, gallbladder, lack of special ampullary cancer. Cholangiocarcinoma by parts is divided into: the upper bile duct, which occurs in about… Read More »
Gallbladder cancer prevention, in order to prevent gallbladder cancer, we must first understand the gallbladder is how it happened. So far the cause of gallbladder cancer is not yet clear, but based on epidemiological statistics with the following factors: gender, age, diet, carcinogenic substances, cholecystitis, gallstones, gallbladder polyps. gallbladder cancer occur in women over the… Read More »