PET Scan Can Detect Chemo Success Faster, Improve Cancer Therapy

An old technology, the PET scan, is breathing new life into tracking the success of cancer treatments.  Cancer patients undergoing chemo are injected with a radioactive substance prior to being given a PET scan that allows doctors to detect how well a chemotherapy course...

CareToLive Writ to Supreme Court Fighting FDA for Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy

"CareToLive Sends Writ to Supreme Court of the United States October 24th, 2008 | Posted by CTL Share This While the FDA continues to tow the untenable line they have chosen and while they continue...

Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer

Patrick Swayze, the Hollywood actor and star of such films as Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a spokesman has confirmed.  But contrary to reports, the 55-year-old is not...

Light Therapy: Alternative to Chemo

Chemotherapy kills everything in its path, and cancer cells are cancer cells because they replicate faster than the "normal" cells that surround them. Therefore chemo does more harm than good in most people. "It...

My loved one's shrinking brain

This started out as a fairly simple story. Researchers in Japan have discovered that chemotherapy might have serious, if impermanent, impacts on the brain.I put the story up because my wife has cancer, and I...

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