#chemotherapy

#chemotherapy

The Nationals have announced two roster moves ahead of their four-game series with the Chicago Cubs.The Washington Nationals recalled RHP Cory Abbott from Triple-A Rochester and placed RHP Chad Kuhl on the 15-day Injured List (retroactive to April 30) with right foot metatarsalgia on Monday afternoon.

A woman who felt helpless after seeing her family being devastated by deadly brain tumours has called for more research and funding.Claire Cordiner, 54, who lives in Edinburgh, lost her mother and her youngest sister to a glioblastoma a year apart, and now her 18-year-old nephew is receiving palliative care with the same tumour.

A blood test which can detect traces of cancer cells could spare thousands of patients unnecessary chemotherapy every year.A major bowel cancer trial is examining whether the test can show if surgery has removed all of the tumour.Doctors say half of patients with stage 3 bowel cancer are cured by surgery alone so by using chemotherapy they are over-treating many people.

Medicinal cannabis helps relieve cancer pain and can cut down how many drugs people need, research suggests.A new study found that products with an equal balance of the active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) seemed to be the most effective for pain.At the moment, only specialist hospital doctors can prescribe cannabis-based medicines on the NHS, and only for a few limited conditions such as rare and severe epilepsy, vomiting or nausea caused by chemotherapy and muscle stiffness caused by multiple sclerosis (MS).

Three men living with prostate cancer hope to hike three of the highest peaks in Yorkshire in nine hours to create lifelong memories even when they are no longer here and encourage people to live their best life.Kevin Webber, 58, Paul Dennington, 57, and Ian Tetsill, 52, are to hike a total of 24 miles and reach heights of 5,200ft walking up and down Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent and Whernside for Prostate Cancer UK.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., participates in a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on March 29.On Thursday, he announced a preliminary diagnosis that his cancer is in remission after treatments.Cliff Owen/AP Rep. Jamie Raskin, a prominent lawmaker representing D.C. suburbs in Maryland, announced that his cancer is in remission after he completed chemotherapy.

Rep. Jamie Raskin announced on Thursday that he has received a preliminary diagnosis of being in remission' from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and has finished chemotherapy.Raskin said in an open letter that he is overwhelmed with gratitude and love and has a 90% prognosis of no relapse.In December of last year, Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, announced that he had a serious but curable form of cancer and would begin outpatient treatment.

Patients with incurable cervical cancer are to be offered a new treatment which could give them more time with their loved ones.Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug manufactured by Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD), is the first new treatment in 14 years approved to treat advanced cervical cancer.It is expected that over the next three years around 400 patients will benefit from the treatment, also known as pembrolizumab.

Work from over 130 artists is to be auctioned off as part of an exhibition run by The Brain Tumour Charity to raise funds and awareness for its cause and the importance of time when contending with the condition.The London exhibition, called Time', is to feature photographs, paintings, scans and sculptures from budding and professional artists across the globe, including Tel Aviv and New York, to shine a light on how brain tumours affect people.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity has launched its biggest-ever fundraising appeal to raise 300 million for a new world-leading cancer centre.The charity hopes to take the first strides towards the Build it.Beat it campaign's total when runners take part in the TCS London Marathon on April 23 with a goal to raise 3.5 million.

A teacher who lied about having cancer and falsely claimed that surgeons had removed her eye has been banned from the classroom indefinitely.Julianne Cox, who worked at St Helena School, in Colchester, Essex, between 2014 and 2017, told colleagues her right retina had been surgically removed and that she was undergoing chemotherapy.