Tag Archives: quality of life

How to Deal with Fatigue Related to Breast Cancer?

Posted on March 10, 2012 by wngai

If you are a breast cancer survivor, there is 30% of chance that you might experience fatigue which affects your quality of life.  What can you do then?  A small new study finds that doing yoga might help restore some … Continue reading →

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Docetaxel (Taxotere) is Effective in Heavily Pretreated Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients

Posted on March 6, 2011 by wngai

It is well-established that nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a chemo-responsive disease.  Despite improved outcome with chemo-radiation (platimum-based chemotherapy with radiation), treatment failure continue to be a problem in patients with locally advanced Stage III/IV disease.  Now, a new study published … Continue reading →

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Exercise Training is Beneficial to Heart Failure Patients

Posted on January 8, 2011 by wngai

In an effort to determine the effect of exercise training on clinical events and the quality of life in patient with systolic heart failure, a group of researchers reviewed all the clinical trials that were published up to January 2008 … Continue reading →

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