New cancer treatment beats chemotherapy without the toxic side effects

New cancer treatment beats chemotherapy without the toxic side effects.

BNCT: cancer radiation therapy with no side effects?

New cancer radiation therapy treatment with no harmful side effects
Darren Quick, gizmag.com

Shortly after the discovery of the neutron in 1932, some scientists recognized the potential of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) as a cancer treatment. But despite decades of research, the problem of finding a delivery agent that would more…

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The long term side effects of cancer treatment: chemo brain

New evidence of ‘chemo brain’ proves cognitive damage from cancer treatment isn’t ‘all in your head’
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net

Can­cer sur­vivors every­where are nod­ding in agree­ment today: “chemo brain” is real, as those of us who have expe­ri­enced the cog­ni­tive dam­age asso­ci­at­ed with chemother­a­py already know. Mem­o­ry loss, prob­lems with con­cen­tra­tion an…

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When the treatment is worse than the disease: social perspectives on cancer care

Chagas heart, radiology
Chagas heart, radiology (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For many cancer survivors, the conventional mainstream treatment, radiation and chemotherapy come with a host of side effects which are crippling and sometimes lethal, which might be slow growing or treatable more conservatively. For example, new studies show that survivors of Hodgkin’s disease once considered the lone example of the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy are significantly more likely to die of heart disease in the years following treatment due to the toxic effects of these treatments on the cardio vascular system.

Cancer Survivors Need Heart Disease Screening : Internal Medicine News.