Tag: Patients

Exercise as part of cancer treatment – Harvard Health Blog – Harvard Health Publishing

Dear Blogreaders, here a recommendation on exercise as adjuvant cancer therapy. Based on analyses of multiple studies showing benefits of exercise, Australia’s national cancer organization has issued formal guidelines recommending exercise as part of cancer treatment for all cancer patients. The guidelines emphasize that exercise recommendations be tailored to each patient. Read more on: Exercise […]

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Timing of Aspirin and Other Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use Among Patients With Colorectal Cancer in Relation to Tumor Markers and Survival. – PubMed – NCBI

It has been reported many times-the good old aspirin. But what about the timing and the subtype of colorectal cancer (CRC) that would benefit the most from using aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)? ” Compared with nonusers, postdiagnostic aspirin-only users had more favorable overall survival and CRC-specific survival , especially among those who […]

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Checkpoint Inhibitors Advancing in Multiple GI Cancers – Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News

Immunotherapy is already used in a variety of different cancers with great success , and clinical trials are ongoing to test different approaches. Checkpoint inhibitors, specifically agents targeting programmed death-1 (PD-1), are being studied in clinical trials in a number of gastrointestinal tumors, including dMMR/MSI-H tumors which are associated with upregulated expression of checkpoint regulators […]

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