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If you have been diagnosed with cancer and need to receive chemotherapy, your doctor might recommend a chemo port. A chemo port is a device that can help reduce the pain and anxiety associated with chemo treatment.  But your chemo port may be in place for weeks or months and can be uncomfortable during sleep. So how should you sleep with a chemo port? What is a Chemo Port? A chemo port is a small device implanted beneath the skin, which is attached to a catheter connected to a ve...

Melatonin is a hormone produced by our pineal gland, which is roughly located in the centre of our brain. Melatonin production follows a circadian rhythm, with the highest levels being produced at night while we sleep. Night time exposure to light can significantly decrease melatonin production, and multiple observational studies have linked night shift work to the development of breast cancer. Interestingly, women with breast cancer in Denmark can now receive financial compensation if, wi...

Hair loss is undoubtedly one of the most distressing side effects of cancer treatment and whilst there are lots of products and services out there which promise to aid hair growth, it can be overwhelming trying to understand what really works and what's just hearsay. So we've been doing some investigation into whether scalp massage really can help with hair growth and the good news is that we've found strong evidence to suggest that scalp massage does improve hair growth.
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Extensive preclinical evidence suggests that short-term fasting and fasting mimicking diets (FMDs) can protect healthy cells against the perils of a wide variety of stressors, including chemotherapy, simultaneously rendering cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy and other therapies Essentially, fasting causes a switch in healthy cells from a proliferative state towards a maintenance and repair state. Malignant cells, in contrast, seem to be unable to enter this protective state b...

Bowel cancer survival rates could be improved if chemotherapy drugs were delivered via tiny nanoparticles directly to tumours instead of being taken orally. This is the finding, published in the journal Carbohydrate Polymers, of an Indian and Australian study that used nanoparticles to target bowel cancer, the third-most common cancer. In animal experiments researchers found nanoparticles containing the chemotherapy drug Capecitabine attach themselves directly to the diseased cells, bypassi...