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2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   A new method to reduce rectal radiation injury in prostate cancer patients involves the use of an absorbable spacer placed between the prostate and rectum. MRI showing hydrogel spacer pushing the rectum away from the prostate during radiotherapy. Such spacers are commercially available in some regions and are undergoing clinical trials in ...

3. How I found peace with my pixie after having chemo - AOL

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   Me today, with my brother's dog, Ellie. Deanna Pai is a writer living in Manhattan. She was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer, at the age of 23.

4. Androgen deprivation therapy - Wikipedia

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   Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), also called androgen ablation therapy or androgen suppression therapy, is an antihormone therapy whose main use is in treating prostate cancer. Prostate cancer cells usually require androgen hormones, such as testosterone, to grow. ADT reduces the levels of androgen hormones, with drugs or surgery, to prevent ...

5. Apalutamide - Wikipedia

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   Apalutamide was first described in 2007, and was approved for the treatment of prostate cancer in February 2018. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 15 ] It is the first medication to be approved specifically for the treatment of non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

6. 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]

7. Chemotherapy regimen - Wikipedia

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   A chemotherapy regimen is a regimen for chemotherapy, defining the drugs to be used, their dosage, the frequency and duration of treatments, and other considerations. In modern oncology, many regimens combine several chemotherapy drugs in combination chemotherapy. The majority of drugs used in cancer chemotherapy are cytostatic, many via ...

8. Kate Middleton says she’s finished chemotherapy: ‘My path to ...

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   Middleton says her focus now is staying cancer-free, but that she looks forward to returning to work and speaking engagements in her own time. “My path to healing and full recovery is long and I ...

9. Hormonal therapy (oncology) - Wikipedia

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   The estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) is occasionally used to treat prostate cancer through suppression of testosterone production. It was previously used in the treatment of breast cancer, but has been replaced by more effective and less toxic agents. Estrace is an estrogen which was also formerly used for antiandrogen therapy of prostate ...