If there's one thing that can be said about cancer awareness, it's that effort is constant. You want to be able to focus on all of the proper measures that can be taken in order to help patients in the long term and certain therapies are, more likely than not, going to stand out more than others. That being said, what are some of the most helpful that can prove themselves? From what I have learned, it would have to be research that includes some of the most unique components.
Medical Xpress wrote an article on this particular matter and it spoke about whole-brain radiotherapy. For those who are not in the know, this is one of the common methods of therapies in terms of this type of cancer but I am not sure if it is that effective. The reason that I say this is because, in large doses, WBRT could actually lead to cognitive deficiencies in patients. As you can imagine, there is work being done in order to find alternate methods with other various components put into place.
Deborah Watkins-Burner, a professor at the Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, was able to work with a team of researchers. This group addressed 508 eligible WBRT patients with this type of cancer but went about an entirely different method along with it. Each of them were given a placebo or Memantine within the first week of WBRT. Of course, there have been results to be cited but I didn't realize just how strong they would have proven themselves to be.
It seems as though authorities the likes of Voices against Brain Cancer will be able to tell you about the various findings in this particular field. The report went into detail about how cognitive function was much better amongst the patients following this procedure. This alone makes such findings very worthwhile in the field of cancer awareness. In addition, it can only help research stand that much stronger than it would have been able to before, which is something that anyone involved in this field strives for.
It's interesting because typically you would not think that certain drugs would be able to work as well as you might have imagined. After all, some of the most common methods are put to use time and time again, so the mind registers them as the best that there could be. However, researchers understand that there are greater possibilities out there, so they should be recognized as well. More importantly than that, though, they should be ones that are incorporated, being put to use in the long term.
Medical Xpress wrote an article on this particular matter and it spoke about whole-brain radiotherapy. For those who are not in the know, this is one of the common methods of therapies in terms of this type of cancer but I am not sure if it is that effective. The reason that I say this is because, in large doses, WBRT could actually lead to cognitive deficiencies in patients. As you can imagine, there is work being done in order to find alternate methods with other various components put into place.
Deborah Watkins-Burner, a professor at the Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, was able to work with a team of researchers. This group addressed 508 eligible WBRT patients with this type of cancer but went about an entirely different method along with it. Each of them were given a placebo or Memantine within the first week of WBRT. Of course, there have been results to be cited but I didn't realize just how strong they would have proven themselves to be.
It seems as though authorities the likes of Voices against Brain Cancer will be able to tell you about the various findings in this particular field. The report went into detail about how cognitive function was much better amongst the patients following this procedure. This alone makes such findings very worthwhile in the field of cancer awareness. In addition, it can only help research stand that much stronger than it would have been able to before, which is something that anyone involved in this field strives for.
It's interesting because typically you would not think that certain drugs would be able to work as well as you might have imagined. After all, some of the most common methods are put to use time and time again, so the mind registers them as the best that there could be. However, researchers understand that there are greater possibilities out there, so they should be recognized as well. More importantly than that, though, they should be ones that are incorporated, being put to use in the long term.
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