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Scalp cooling therapy: The Ottawa Hospital could lose technology that helps prevent hair loss in cancer patients.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 3, 2024 Source:Scalp cooling therapy: The Ottawa Hospital could lose technology that helps prevent hair loss in cancer patients
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Pembrolizumab given to patients with stage two or three bowel cancer and a certain genetic profile (MMR deficient/MSI-High bowel cancer) before surgery instead of chemotherapy led to a significant increase in patients being declared cancer-free, a UK clinical trial found.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 3, 2024 Source:Drug that ‘melts away’ tumours hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for some bowel cancer patients
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Gum disease-related bacteria tied to colorectal cancer. Good preliminary investigation.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 3, 2024 Source:Gum disease-related bacteria tied to colorectal cancer Reference:A distinct Fusobacterium nucleatum clade dominates the colorectal cancer niche
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How preventive chemotherapy takes a toll on the body
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 25, 2024 Source:Kate Middleton news: How preventive chemotherapy takes a toll on the body
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One hospital’s push to bring genetic cancer testing to more Black women
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 1, 2024 Source:One hospital’s push to bring genetic cancer testing to more Black women
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Drug used for cocaine addiction may treat advanced colon cancer, uOttawa researchers find. However still a ways to go. Great science work. Human trials to follow.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 15, 2024 Source:Drug used for cocaine addiction may treat advanced colon cancer, uOttawa researchers find Reference:The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors
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Some physicians advocating renaming low-grade cancers as “not cancer”. I do not think this is the correct path to take. It seems a bit patronizing presume how patients will respond to the news of their diagnosis.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 26, 2024 Source:The Cancer That Doctors Don’t Want to Call Cancer
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Flaxseeds’ effect on the gut microbiome may help lower breast cancer risk… in mice.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 19, 2023 Source:Flaxseeds’ effect on the gut microbiome may help lower breast cancer risk Reference:Cecal microbiota and mammary gland microRNA signatures are related and modifiable by dietary flaxseed with implications for breast cancer risk
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Ontario lowering age for regular breast cancer screenings to 40 starting in the Fall of 2024.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 31, 2023 Source:Ontario lowering age for regular breast cancer screenings to 40