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Tag Archives: Cancer therapy
Palliative Care Is Not Giving Up
Helping patients live the best life possible should always be the goal of care
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die ~Leonardo da Vinci Recently, I read an op-ed in the Washington Post written by Dr. Isaac Chan, a medical oncology fellow at the … Continue reading
“Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer” by Robert Pope
A Canadian artist chronicled life on a cancer ward before succumbing to the disease in 1992
Cancer treatment is typically brutal and terrifying. The very nature of the “therapy” is at odds with the concepts of survival or healing. In order to get “well,” a cancer patient must agree to subject her body to a host … Continue reading
Light-Activated Platinum: A New Approach to Cancer Chemotherapy
A novel new drug uses an inactive platinum compound to target cancer cells
A Ph.D. student working with the Monash Warwick Alliance has made a pioneering discovery about a prospective new cancer drug. The platinum-based compound goes by the chemical name trans,trans,trans-[Pt(N3)2(OH)2(py)2], and was developed by a research group led by Professor Peter … Continue reading
Germs Help in the Fight Against Cancer
Study shows that certain gut bacteria enhance the action of chemotherapy drugs
Since about the mid-19th century, people have been understandably afraid of germs. Prior to that time, no one knew why millions of people became mysteriously ill with symptoms such as fevers, rashes and coughs. Nor did they understand why so … Continue reading
“The Death of Cancer” by Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D. and Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn
A cancer specialist describes the ongoing War on Cancer in the United States
“The Death of Cancer” is a gripping account of the ongoing battle against what is perhaps the world’s most feared disease. Told from the perspective of a physician who has spent most of his adult life searching for a cure, … Continue reading
