Tumor Paint: Changing the way surgeons view and fight cancer (CNN)

Tumor Paint: Changing the way surgeons fight cancer - CNN.com:

"Olson and his team were able to identify a small protein, or peptide, in the scorpion's venom and use it to produce Tumor Paint. They grew a brain tumor on a mouse's back and injected the "paint" into a tail vein; within an hour, the cancer was lighting up. Tumor Paint was 500 times more sensitive than an MRI, and it didn't just work for brain cancer but breast, skin, prostate and colon cancers."

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Dexamethasone a Potential Treatment for Cancer-Related Fatigue (JOCO)

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Oncology Times: "Dexamethasone helps to reduce cancer-related fatigue in patients with advanced disease, according to a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology(2013;31:3076-3082)."

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"Prior research demonstrating the benefit of steroids in advanced cancer patients is limited, and there are no validated studies using fatigue as a primary outcome,” he said. The study he led (senior author was Eduardo Bruera, MD) used validated tools in a controlled setting that met National Cancer Institute and National Comprehensive Cancer Network criteria. Moreover, the study demonstrated that dexamethasone at 4 mg twice daily was effective in treating cancer-related fatigue for a period of two weeks."

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