PPI and colorectal cancer treatment outcomes
Cancer treatment outcomes are influenced by a number of factors - they depend both on the severity of the condition at the time of treatment initiation and what other drugs the patient is using. One...
Obesity may worsen breast cancer outcomes
Obesity and overweight are undeniably serious health problems. They increase the risk of diabetes or hypertension, but also of other dangerous diseases, including breast cancer. Excess body weight is...
Beta-blockers may improve melanoma treatment outcomes
Oncology treatment is a branch of medicine that continues to make incredible progress. Not only are more and more modern therapeutic regimens being developed in oncology, but it is also becoming...
Another mechanism by which cancers deceive the immune system has been discovered
Cancer is a dangerous condition for many different reasons. One such reason is that cancer cells can simply deceive the human immune system - and they can do this, unfortunately, in many different...
Modified polio virus can aid cancer treatment
Oncology is currently one of the most rapidly developing areas of medicine. New chemotherapeutic agents, ever-improving methods of nuclear medicine... The list could go on, but the summary is simple:...
How long after chemotherapy does hair grow back in patients?
One of the concerns of patients scheduled to undergo chemotherapy for a cancer: hair loss. Nevertheless, the benefits of cancer treatment far outweigh its side effect of hair loss, besides the fact...
Reason for drug resistance in small cell lung cancer discovered?
Lung cancer is generally ranked among the conditions that cause the most fear in patients. One of its types - small cell lung cancer - is special because of the very poor prognosis of patients...
Diet a chance to cure cancer
Cancer challenges us to make many decisions. Although the solutions offered by today's medicine make it possible to fight cancer, they are not without negative effects on the body as a whole. This is...
Transient pain in oncology
Pain is a complaint reported by almost all oncology patients at some stage of diagnosis and treatment. In addition to chronic pain, transient, acute, paroxysmal, rapidly increasing, moderate to...
Pain in cancer
The majority of oncology patients require analgesics during their cancer treatment at some stage of therapy. It is worth bearing this in mind when planning the treatment process - the body's response...
Extravasation of cytostatics
Chemotherapeutic agents are administered to oncology patients both as monotherapy and in combination therapy. The choice of intravenous route of administration is associated with a high risk of...
The formation of cancer in the human body
Carcinogenesis, i.e. the formation of tumours in a hitherto healthy organism, is a complex process, usually taking place gradually and taking years. External factors play an extremely important role...
Transdermal administration of opioid drugs
Pain accompanies the majority of oncology ward patients at some stage of cancer therapy. In the group of patients with the most advanced disease, more than 70% require continuous analgesic provision....
Oncology diagnostics
From decade to decade, tremendous progress is being made in oncology diagnostics. Technological advances and the rapid development of medicine are providing more and more new tools for the rapid...
Chemo-resistance
When treatment with chemotherapy is administered, difficulties can be encountered in the form of an organismal reaction such as chemo-resistance. This can result, among other things, from cellular...
Clinical trials - opportunity and risk
Participation in clinical trials is an important individual decision that should be thoroughly considered. However, before you decide to talk to your doctor, you may want to familiarise yourself with...
We are researching cancer, or a few words about what clinical research is in this aspect
The development of medicine is an amazing phenomenon, but every new discovery needs its confirmation in the appropriate, desired reactions of the human organism. It is precisely for this purpose that...
Nausea and vomiting during cancer treatment - dietary recommendations
Nausea and vomiting are among the most common side effects of anticancer treatment, and it is these that patients fear most. They affect 40-80% of patients undergoing oncological treatments...
Weight change during cancer treatment - dietary recommendations
Weight change is one of the most common side effects of cancer treatment, with 33%-72% of all those treated struggling with it. It is estimated that approximately 20% of patients die from cancer...
Treatment options for glioma - general information
Any effective treatment must take into account a variety of individual disease factors, such as the location and size of the disease focus, symptoms, potential benefits and risks of taking a...
