Researchers are moving closer to developing a largely effective device that can eliminate the hair loss that happens with chemotherapy treatments. The latest step in developing scalp cooling devices came from researchers at the University of Huddersfield, UK, who are collaborating with a company to analyze the science behind the process of hair cooling. Paxman… Continue reading Study: A Better Way to Avert Hair Loss during Chemotherapy
Category: Cancer Treatment
Personalized Ovarian Cancer Vaccines
Researchers at the University of Connecticut have found a new way to identify protein mutations in cancer cells. The novel method is being used to develop personalized vaccines to treat patients with ovarian cancer. A release from the university quotes Dr. Pramod Srivastava, director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn… Continue reading Personalized Ovarian Cancer Vaccines
Dating with Cancer: When Do You Share Your Diagnosis?
By Tracy Maxwell
This article, which originally appeared on DemosHealth.com, is adapted from Being Single, With Cancer.
“At what point in a new relationship is it appropriate to reveal your status as a cancer survivor?”
If you have ever wondered what the right answer to this question is, you’re not alone. Many survivors ask the same thing when dating after cancer or during treatment.
Delivering a Drug “Cocktail” to Cancer Cells
Biomedical engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed daisy-shaped, nanoscale structures that are made predominantly of anti-cancer drugs and are capable of introducing a “cocktail” of multiple drugs into cancer cells.