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Multiple Sclerosis and Chemotherapy
Is there any truth behind chemotherapy actually curing Multiple Sclerosis?
Unfortunately, no. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic illness - meaning that it cannot be completely cured. There are, ...
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Can we develop milder drugs to eliminate hematopoietic stem cells?
Possibly, but "can we" is only really answerable once it's been done; there are lots of things that are within some plausible range of possibility (including those that seem within grasp and ...
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Morning nausea after Chemo
Yes, you should be looking into getting help.
Nausea during chemotherapy is very common, and should be treated. But nausea in the morning 9 years after chemotherapy? That is not at all normal.
There ...
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What are survival rates of male patients in stage IV throat cancer that has metastasised to the lower pallet?
Roughly speaking, it appears that about 30-40% of patients in stage IV will survive for 5 years or more depending on where the cancer originated. This reference provides details.
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What kind of cell kill probabilities per division you get with chemotherapy?
The average human is rumoured to have around 30,000,000,000,000 cells in their body.
Apoptosis kills around 60,000,000,000 cells a day.
This is 0.002%, so I imagine a 5% kill rate would be at least ...
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Bleomycin and Cannabis
If you are concerned about your lungs you could try to use edibles. They will not have any effect on your lungs.
However you should be careful because the onset of edibles takes longer (generally ...
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How exactly does induced Scalp Hypothermia prevent alopecia (hair loss) during chemo therapy?
All chemical reactions including killing cancer cells with poisons occur at approximately twice the rate per ten degrees. So reducing the scalp by ten degrees while chemo is occurring will reduce the ...
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Why aren't purine analogs effective in non-hematological malignancies?
It's not a given, that they are not useful in solid tumors (also lymphoma are accounted among the solid tumors).
There are pyrimidine-like antimetabolites, e. g. 5-FU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Immune system recovery from chemotherapy
This must depend on the type of chemotherapy, and duration of treatment.
This study looked at lymphocyte populations after chemotherapy for breast cancer and found
RESULTS:
Levels of B, T and NK ...
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What are survival rates of male patients in stage IV throat cancer that has metastasised to the lower pallet?
There is a large difference in survival depending on whether the cancer was caused by HPV or ( probably) tobacco/alcohol. The HPV cancers have significantly higher survival rates. I am surprised the ...
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