Fasting Before Chemo May Be Magic Shield, Eliminating Nasty Side Effects

An interesting pairing of medical disciplines has turned up a new approach to treating cancer, and doing so in a way that just might minimize, or eliminate altogether, the very unpleasant side effects that come with traditional chemotherapy treatments.

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Excess Chemo No Value to Breast Cancer

Med Headlines - Sometimes less is more. And sometimes timing is everything. That certainly seems to be the case with a once-popular chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer, according to a team of researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.  The results of a study of high-dose chemotherapy, led by Donald Berry, chair of biostatistics, for MD Anderson, was presented on Thursday at the Breast Cancer Symposium held in San Antonio. Read more