Topic: Medical Treatments and Procedures
People have many different ways of dealing with pain. The process of handling and fighting pain is called pain management. Pain is categorized into two types-acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain is a short-term type of pain like a fever, headache, migraine, stomach pain and the like. Chronic pain, on the other hand involves long-term pains like the ones ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Older patients with colon cancer are less likely to receive chemotherapy after surgery than younger people but have fewer serious side-effects when they do get the treatment, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. When older patients do receive the treatment, it tends to be at a less toxic dose and over a shorter period than younger patients receive ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Aiming powerful beams of radiation precisely at tumors helped control their growth and helped people with early stage but inoperable lung cancer live longer, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. They said intensive radiation therapy -- done in one to five treatments instead of the conventional 20 to 30 -- provided more than double the rate of primary tumor control ...
