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Researchers study effects of Aricept in pediatric brain cancer survivors
11-03-2006 · EurekAlert!A pediatric oncologist at Brenner Children's Hospital is evaluating whether a drug typically used to treat Alzheimer's patients will help brain cancer survivors avoid the learning and memory problems that are common after radiation therapy.
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- Adult Survivors Of Childhood Cancer Face Long-term Health Problems
10-14-2006 · ScienceDaily
Survivors of childhood cancer may face long-term health problems well into adulthood, as reported in a multicenter study of over 10,000 adults who survived a childhood battle with cancer. One of the co-authors of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study is a long-standing pioneer in the field. Anna T. Meadows, M.D., and colleagues at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia were the first researchers to investigate the late effects of childhood cancer, starting in the mid-1970s.
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- Study: Re-engineered Gleevec reduces heart risks
12-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
Using a new bottom-up approach for rational drug design, researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have reengineered the powerful anticancer drug imatinib -- best known by its brand name Gleevec -- to more specifically target one type of cancer while potentially curbing a rare life-threatening cardiotoxic side effect. The re-design strategy employed in the study is broadly applicable to reducing side effects in other drugs.
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- Researchers find level of special protein is critical to proper formation of muscles
04-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Proper formation of the proteins that power heart and skeletal muscle seems to rely on a precise concentration of a "chaperone" protein known as UNC-45, according to a new study.This basic discovery may have important implications for understanding and eventually treating heart failure and muscle wasting elsewhere in the body resulting from burns, brain trauma, diabetes, cancer and the effects of aging.
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- Study finds reduced brain growth in alcoholics with family drinking history
02-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
Previous studies have shown that alcoholics have smaller brain volumes than non-alcoholics, an effect widely believed to be due to the toxic effects of ethanol. In this study, researchers found reduced brain growth among alcohol-dependent individuals with a family history of alcoholism or heavy drinking compared to those with no such family history. The finding demonstrates that reduced brain growth occurs among these individuals even before the onset of alcohol dependence.
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- Jefferson scientists studying the effects of high-dose vitamin C on non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients
01-02-2008 · EurekAlert!
Scientists at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center have received approval for a first-of-its kind study on the effect high dose vitamin C has on non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Researchers from the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine and Kimmel Cancer Center in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health will study whether high doses of vitamin C can slow the progression of the deadly disease.
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- Brain-boosting pill alleviates post-chemotherapy fogginess
06-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
A drug described by some people as a "genius pill" for enhancing cognitive function provided relief to a small group of Rochester breast cancer survivors who were coping with a side effect known as "chemo-brain," according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study.
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- Adult survivors of childhood leukemia exercise less, worsening high risk for obesity and illness
07-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Overcoming pediatric cancer may only mark the beginning of a young survivor’s lifelong battle to stay healthy. While survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) face an increased risk of developing serious health complications as a result of their cancer treatment, for a variety of reasons many avoid simple exercise and healthy lifestyle changes that could reverse the damage, according to a team of researchers based at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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- Study suggests newer breast cancer drug may protect heart
06-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
By uncovering how one breast cancer drug protects the heart and another does not, Duke University Medical Center researchers believe they may have opened up a new way to screen drugs for possible heart-related side effects and to develop new drugs.
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- Survey determines impact of false-positive cancer tests
07-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
According to a new study in Value in Health, women coping with the strain of being mistakenly diagnosed with breast cancer have not been adequately studied in the past. The focus of the study is a new survey that accurately assesses the negative effects of false diagnosis, and provides useful information to health care practitioners and researchers.
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- Common cancer treatments toxic to healthy brain cells
11-29-2006 · EurekAlert!
Common drugs used to treat cancer may be more harmful to healthy brain cells than the cancer cells that they are intended to destroy, according to a new study. The results, which also indicate that chemotherapy may cause long-term brain damage, represent the closest that scientists have come to pinpointing the underlying physiological cause of "chemo brain," a common side effect of cancer treatment that scientists are only now beginning to comprehend.
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