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The group, Videoconferenced Stress Management and Relaxation Training for Older Women With Breast Cancer or VSMART, is a telehealth trial funded by the Florida Department of Health to teach breast ...
Radiation-induced cognitive decline describes the possible correlation between radiation therapy and cognitive impairment. Radiation therapy is used mainly in the treatment of cancer. Radiation therapy can be used to cure, care or shrink tumors that are interfering with quality of life. Sometimes radiation therapy is used alone; other times it ...
One study demonstrated that, a year after treatment, the brains of cancer survivors treated with chemotherapy (after surgery) had physically shrunk while those of people only treated surgically had not. Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment comes as a surprise to many cancer survivors.
Radium Girls. The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories in the United States: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s; and ...
A quarter of hospital patients who are unresponsive and don’t physically respond to commands may be doing so mentally, a new study found. The research relied on brain scans of the patients.
Over a hundred people, including Eben Byers and the radium girls, have received committed doses in excess of 10 Gy and went on to die of cancer or natural causes, whereas the same amount of acute external dose would invariably cause an earlier death by acute radiation syndrome.
To find out what's driving the stark inequities, the American Cancer Society launched a study Tuesday called VOICES of Black Women, which plans to enroll more than 100,000 Black women ages 25 to ...
Cancer pain. Pain in cancer may arise from a tumor compressing or infiltrating nearby body parts; from treatments and diagnostic procedures; or from skin, nerve and other changes caused by a hormone imbalance or immune response. Most chronic (long-lasting) pain is caused by the illness and most acute (short-term) pain is caused by treatment or ...