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  2. I'm A Breast Cancer Doctor. Here's What I Didn't Know - AOL

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    Chemotherapy commonly shuts down the ovaries, which are the major source of estrogen in the female body. While every woman will lose ovarian function (also known as menopause) as they age, it is a ...

  3. Cancer treatment - Wikipedia

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    Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment. [1] Treatments can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy including small-molecule drugs or monoclonal antibodies, [2] and PARP inhibitors such as olaparib. [3]

  4. Cancer patients often do better with less intensive treatment ...

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    French researchers found that it’s safe to avoid removing lymph nodes that appear healthy during surgery for advanced ovarian cancer. The study compared the results for 379 patients — half had ...

  5. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Chemotherapy does not always work, and even when it is useful, it may not completely destroy the cancer. People frequently fail to understand its limitations. In one study of people who had been newly diagnosed with incurable, stage 4 cancer , more than two-thirds of people with lung cancer and more than four-fifths of people with colorectal ...

  6. A quick, cheap test could protect against fatal chemo ... - AOL

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    The chemotherapy drug 5-FU can be toxic to some people with cancer. A quick, cheap test can show if chemo is safe for a patient, but few doctors order it.

  7. Premedication - Wikipedia

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    Premedication is using medication before some other therapy (usually surgery or chemotherapy) to prepare for that forthcoming therapy.Typical examples include premedicating with a sedative or analgesic before surgery; using prophylactic (preventive) antibiotics before surgery; and using antiemetics or antihistamines before chemotherapy.

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    Doctors added nine weeks of chemotherapy before a second surgery to remove his inflamed lymph nodes. “Everything came back clear from the second surgery,” Niemi says. “We got the cancer-free ...

  9. Tumor lysis syndrome - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] This is a potentially fatal complication and people at an increased risk for TLS should be closely monitored while receiving chemotherapy and should receive preventive measures and treatments as necessary. [4] [3] TLS can also occur on its own (while not being treated with chemotherapy) although this is less common. [4] [5]