New Hope for Patients with Head and Neck Cancers
Advances in surgery, chemotherapy and immunotherapy could eliminate devastating side effects of radiation.
Category: Treatment
Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug Available at Pharmacies
Administering the drug naloxone can prevent death from opioids.
How Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Parkinson’s Patients
The procedure can minimize symptoms and medication dosage to a dramatic effect.
I Found a Lump in My Breast. What Should I Do?
A breast lump can be caused by many things other than cancer, so don’t panic—just take these steps.
Had Enough of Your Seasonal Allergies? Maybe You Need a New Medication
You have many choices for over-the-counter allergy drugs. Here’s how to choose.
New insights on side effects can help prostate cancer patients choo...
A study led by Ronald C. Chen, MD, examines quality-of-life outcomes for modern treatment choices most patients will face, including active surveillance, radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation treatment, and brachytherapy.
Online group therapy may be effective treatment for bulimia nervosa
Study led by UNC researchers compared group therapy delivered via online chat to face-to-face group therapy
Study raises concerns about timely follow-up to positive mammogram ...
In the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, researchers report that uninsured women under age 65 who received their mammogram at community screening clinics in North Carolina were less likely to get follow-up within a year of a positive mammogram, and had higher odds of missing a 60-day window for follow-up care.
Racial gaps persist in how breast cancer survivors function, feel d...
A UNC Lineberger study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment drew upon surveys that assessed health-related quality of life issues for women aged 20 to 74 years who lived in North Carolina and had breast cancer. The analysis was part of the third phase of the Carolina Breast Cancer Study.
Succeeding with Turner Syndrome
Jennifer Law, MD, director of UNC Children’s Turner Syndrome Program, is working to build awareness of Turner syndrome and show patients and their families that they can overcome their diagnosis.
Older women, especially blacks, receive targeted breast cancer trea...
The advent of targeted drugs for a specific type of breast cancer – HER2 positive – has dramatically improved survival rates for women with the disease. But a study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center reveals low rates of use o