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Genes Can Predict Chemotherapy Pain

By Richard Lenti Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy is not only painful – it’s hard to predict — affecting up to 40 percent of cancer patients who undergo treatment. But now researchers at the Mayo Clinic say they [...]

Karen Black Takes Cancer Battle Online

By Richard Lenti Actress Karen Black’s online fundraising efforts to help pay for her upcoming cancer treatment has been an overwhelming success. Less than two weeks after launching an online campaign on the website GoFundMe.com, the [...]

Drug Shortages Costly to Cancer Patients

A chronic shortage of cancer drugs is having a severe impact on patients, forcing many to overpay for scarce drugs and delay getting treatment, according to a physicians group. In a survey of 525 oncologists across [...]

Antidepressant Relieves Mouth Pain from Cancer Treatment

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have discovered that a drug used to fight depression may also help alleviate the pain from mouth sores caused by cancer treatments. The results of a new study found that an [...]

Study Finds Multivitamins Reduce Cancer in Older Men

More than a third of Americans use them, making the multivitamin the nation’s favorite dietary supplement. And though the jury is still out on their actual health benefits, the results of a new study show a [...]

Touch Therapy Helps Reduce Pain

A mother’s touch is sometimes all it takes to quiet a crying child. And touch is also proving effective at relieving pain, stress and nausea from cancer. A new study by the University of Kentucky’s Markey [...]

Marijuana Spray Proves Effective as Cancer Pain Treatment

A mouth spray containing cannabinoids is effective in reducing pain in cancer patients who are still in pain despite using opioid medicines, according to a new study published in The Journal of Pain. The oral mucosal [...]

Studies Find Link Between Opioids And Cancer

Addiction, nausea, constipation and respiratory depression aren’t the only health risks associated with opioid use. You can add cancer to the list. Two new studies have found the painkilling drugs may stimulate the growth and spread [...]

Study: Daily Use of Aspirin May Do More Harm than Good

Healthy people without a history of cardiovascular disease are unlikely to benefit from regular use of aspirin, according to a new British study. Doctors have long recommended a daily dose of the painkiller to reduce the [...]

Scientists Discover “Master Switch” to Stop Cancer Growth

British scientists have discovered a new method of targeting cancer by manipulating a “master switch” responsible for cancer cell growth. Their study, published in the Cancer Cell journal, focused on how cancer cells produce their own [...]

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