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Chemotherapy has life-threatening or distressing side effects such febrile neutropenia, infections, mucositis, nausea, vomiting, fatigue. Mucositis is defined as inflammatory and/or ulcerative lesions of the oral and/or gastrointestinal tract that can be caused by high dose chemotherapy, Infectious
Study Design: A single-center, two-arm, parallel group with standard of care controlled trial with a balanced 1:1 randomization will be conducted at University Hospital Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland. A total of 120 women (60 participants per study arm) who are scheduled for first- line
As a result of advances in cancer treatment, the number of breast cancer (BC) survivors is increasing in Canada. Unfortunately, the drugs used to treat BC can have a negative impact on the long term health and welfare of the BC survivors (BCS). For example, commonly used cancer therapies, such as
Research Question: Is there a practical, widely available, non-pharmacological intervention that can be used to reduce the detrimental effects of anthracycline treatment to improve breast cancer patient cardiovascular health, well-being?
Primary Hypothesis: short-term application of aerobic exercise
With more than 14 million cancer survivors in the United States, more patients than ever are living well beyond their initial cancer diagnosis. However despite the tremendous progress, cancer treatments often come with adverse side-effects, perhaps none are more serious or devastating than
Purpose The main aim is to, in women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, explore how different training interventions impact physical capacity and psychological well being.
Research questions
- Does PA improve the ability to return to work after breast cancer treatment is completed?
- How do
1.0 Background
While atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia requiring therapy, it is also associated with increased risk of stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, dementia, and death. The number of Americans affected with AF is expected to surge to nearly 16
Background:
Due to screening and progress in treatment the overall survival of women treated for breast cancer has increased over the last decades. Therefore, the long-term effects of breast cancer have emerged as an important topic. An increased mortality is seen within years post treatment due to
BACKGROUND
Much of the clinical practice of oncology involves palliative care. In this setting ,the emphasis is on alleviation of symptoms and preservation or improvement of quality of life. A large body of clinical evidence documents the effectiveness of local-field external beam radiotherapy in
Neoadjuvant (preoperative) chemotherapy is an interesting research tool which allows investigators to test new drugs and/or new schedules with a validated surrogate endpoint, pCR. It also represents an ideal model to evaluate the relationships between treatments and tumor biomarkers. Recent
Although the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART) may have greatly decreased the incidence of Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) in resource rich settings, KS continues to be the most prevalent AIDS-defining malignancy in the world and carries with it significant morbidity and mortality[1]. Indeed, in a recent
OBJECTIVES:
Primary
- Determine the cardiac safety of adjuvant therapy comprising doxorubicin hydrochloride and cyclophosphamide followed by paclitaxel, trastuzumab (Herceptin®), and lapatinib ditosylate in patients with resected early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer.
Secondary
- Determine the
While the majority of subjects with advanced ovarian cancer will respond well to the initial chemotherapy regimen of taxol/platinum, these responses are generally of limited duration. Even women who have a surgically defined complete response to initial chemotherapy have >50% recurrence rate in
New treatment strategies are needed to improve the clinical outcome in breast cancer patients at high risk of tumor recurrence. Even with the best present combination chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, the five-year rate of disease recurrence and death is at least 60% in patients with locally