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Find unique information about modern cancer treatments and emerging technologies here. 'Recent Posts' tab offers the newest content.  To read the entire article, simply click on the title or the "Read More" link.  If you’re looking for a specific topic, here are a few pointers to help you navigate the articles found on CancerTreatmentToday.org. The section on every page titled “Focused Articles For You” lists all of the categories that organize

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Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer information from Cancer Treatment Today

Breast cancer is the leading cause of illness and suffering among women. It is second only to lung cancer as the most prevalent cause of cancer death in women. Most women are aware of breast cancer, and many, especially those who had seen a loved one suffer from it, fear it. One in eleven women will develop breast cancer over the course of their lives, assuming an average life span of around eighty years. It is not only a disease of older women,

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Colon Cancer
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Colon cancer is the third most common malignancy in the United States and the second most common cancer in both men and women. An average American has a 5% chance of developing colon cancer during his or her lifetime. During the past several decades, colon cancers have become more frequent higher up in the colon, making colonoscopy that can inspect farther in, more important for screening and diagnosis. Right-sided colon cancer rarely produces changes

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Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer information from Cancer Treatment Today

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in men and women. It is related to smoking. Although smoking rates have been declining since the Surgeon General’s report of 1964, the effect on lung cancer is delayed by several decades. This means that it is still the deadliest cancer, and yet, the amount of research funding, support and public advocacy that goes into lung cancer is dwarfed by what breast or prostate cancer receive. Some

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Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer information from Cancer Treatment Today

Prostate cancer in men, in some ways, resembles breast cancer in women. Like breast cancer, it is gender specific, strikes organs of intimacy and procreation, is hormonally sensitive, and affects large numbers of people in both early and late stages. Like it, screening methods are available. Many of the issues that preoccupy breast cancer advocates, such as how to screen and prevent, how to diagnose earlier and preserve organs, and how to deal with

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Personalized Medicine
Personalized Medicine information from Cancer Treatment Today

Personalized Medicine is the cutting edge of diagnostic science and cancer treatment. Advancement of science enables doctors to obtain a variety of markers in cancer tissues from a biopsy or after surgery of a particular cancer. Some of these markers are purely prognostic but some are targets for drugs that are already approved, or are being researched, although they may not be approved for this particular cancer. In other words, these drugs are

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Other Cancers
Articles and information about the treatment of cancer from CancerTreatmentToday.org

The treatment of cancer has advanced in recent years. Medicine for the treatment of cancer is evolving to account for breakthroughs in the understanding of a variety of markers in cancer tissue.  This is true of all cancers, allowing doctors to personalize the care and the medicine a patient receives which increases the changes that a person will live longer with the disease and/or be cured. Read articles and information about many cancers including

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Chronic neutropenia and Neupogen

Severe chronic neutropenia is a general term that applies to both congenital and acquired cases. Kostman syndrome is a subtype of chronic neutropenia with onset in early childhood with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. It can have an immune basis.  The mainstay of treatment is G-CSF(Neupogen) and many patients do well on it. It is not, however, a curative treatment. Approximately 90% of patients respond to GCSF administration with a

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Radiofrequency coagulation for osteoblastic osteoma

Osteoid osteoma is a benign osteoblastic (bone producing) tumor. The literature suggests that its natural history is a history of resolving pain and healing of the lesions, but the course can be variable. The course of this disease is unpredictable and protracted, with intervals of resolution of pain that sometimes last 6-15 years. Initial treatment of osteoid osteoma remains nonoperative, with medications such as aspirin on other non-steroidal pain

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Hyperbaric oxygen for osteonecrosis of the jaw

Osteonecrosis, death of bone tissues,  is a well known complication that can occur in different bones. Osteonecrosis of the jaw is a known complication on of several medical interventions, such as radiation and biphosphonates. It had been initially described with the biphosphonate Fosomax but began to be seen more frequently with the intravenous biphosphonates, such as Zometa. Conservative treatment is successful in approximately 50% of patients

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