Women with metastatic breast cancer are often faced with a serious dilemma: The five-year survival rate is a dismal 2%, and standard treatments for these advanced-stage breast cancers are replete
Though Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is now well over a century old and has been clinically approved for treating various cancers, most oncologists view it as a relatively new form of cancer
When it comes to treating cancer, the first-line of attack from a conventional standpoint is to cut out the disease using surgery. One of the problems with surgery, however, is that
The common condition known as “heartburn” results in a burning pain or discomfort that typically moves from the stomach to the chest or even up to the throat.
Bladder cancer has been called the world’s most expensive cancer, and for good reason: It has the highest lifetime treatment costs per patient of any cancer. Even after
Cervical cancer and endometrial cancer are roughly tied as the seventh leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in Western Europe and North America. Moreover, women diagnosed with
Prostate cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer among men in Europe, with an incidence that has increased rapidly over the past two decades. These tumors develop slowly over
Surgery has long been regarded as the only effective treatment for cancer of the pancreas. Unfortunately, surgery is not an option for eight out of every ten cases