Over the past decade, it was widely accepted that some chemotherapeutic drugs can be combined with immunotherapeutic drugs in treatment of cancer. Chemotherapeutic drugs can induce apoptosis in the tumor cell and at the same time stimulate the immune response. Several reports support the use   immunomodulators in treatment of cancers through regulating the immune response and boosting the micro...

Background: Female infertility varies widely by geographic location around the world. In 2010, there was an estimated 48.5 million infertile couples worldwide, and from 1990 to 2010 there was slight change in levels of infertility in most of the world. In 2010, the countries with the lowest rates of female infertility included the South American countries of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Bolivia, ...

Ovarian Cancer Treatment In article number 2204436 by Daniel L. Marks, Oleh Taratula, and co-workers, follistatin mRNA delivered lipid nanoparticles targets ovarian cancer clusters dispersed in the peritoneal cavity of mice. When combined with platinum chemotherapy, proposed treatment may allow complete cytoreduction, enhance resilience to iatrogenic burden chemotherapeutic intervention, increa...

Almost half of cancer patients experience cachexia syndrome. Cachexic patients are at risk of increased side effects of chemotherapy, reduced tolerance to chemotherapy drugs, longer duration of treatment period, and decreased quality of life. Cancer cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome. Micro ribonucleic acid (miRNA), a “non-coding RNA”, is considered to be a risk factor of cachexia and muscle...

background and purpose: due to adverse effects of cancer on children's mental health, relaxation, chemotherapy side-effects and positive effects of music therapy on stress, this study was performed with the goal to determine the effect of music therapy on children's stress after chemotherapy. methods: the present study is a randomized clinical trial done on 32 children undergoing canc...

This study aimed to analyze progressive muscle relaxation intervention as an alternative reduce symptoms in patients with chemotherapy. The method used is a systematic literature review through the Science Direct, Proquest, and Scopus databases. results of this indicate that 6 scientific articles obtained show can physical such pain fatigue psychological depression, stress, anxiety, drowsiness,...

basal cell carcinoma (bcc) is the most common cancer among humans, and the standard treatment is surgery. other modalities are reserved as a second line of treatment. topical chemotherapy may be used in primary bcc. systemic chemotherapy has no role in the primary treatment of bcc, although it may be efficacious in metastatic cases. we report the case of a patient with persistent recurrent bcc ...