Nurse-delivered Therapy Improves Depression Among Cancer Patients
                   
cancerconsultants.com     08-Jul-2008            

Therapy delivered to cancer patients by oncology nurses improves cancer-related depression compared with standard therapies. These results were recently published in the Lancet. ODAC Recommends Approval of Nplate (07/07/2008) The Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC), which provides recommendations to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has recommended the approval of Nplate™ (romiplostim) for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in adult patients with chronic immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Measuring EGFR from Cancer Cells in Blood Can Monitor Treatment Effectiveness in Lung Cancer (07/07/2008) Measuring changes in cancer cells through a microchip from blood samples may provide a way to monitor treatment effectiveness among patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). These results... [read full story]                    


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Bioxel Pharma: 2008 Second Quarter Results

pharmiweb.co.uk     22 hrs ago   2 related          

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