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In 2016, the FDA approved atezolizumab for the treatment of people with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease progressed during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy and pembrolizumab for the treatment of people with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors express programmed death-ligand 1 as ...
Fatigue may be a consequence of the cancer or its treatment, and can last for months to years after treatment. One physiological cause of fatigue is anemia, which can be caused by chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, primary and metastatic disease or nutritional depletion.
Expulsion: Sometimes the IUD can slip out of the uterus. This is termed expulsion. Around 5% of IUD users experience expulsion. If this happens a woman is not protected from pregnancy. [53] [54] Expulsion is more common in younger women, women who have not had children, and when an IUD is inserted immediately after childbirth or abortion. [55 ...
IUD use linked to 14 breast cancer cases per every 10,000 women Study participants were followed from the year they started until December 2022, equaling an average of 6.8 years.
After having had my IUD for 10 years, I visited my doctor in 2018 to have it removed. Unfortunately, I hadn’t been consistently getting gynecological checkups and found out that my IUD had ...
Culturally, this marks a monumental shift toward doctors taking and treating IUD pain—and gynecological pain, generally—more seriously. But practically, it probably won't make your insertion ...
Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment. [2] Treatments can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy including small-molecule drugs or monoclonal antibodies, [3] and PARP inhibitors such as olaparib. [4]
The main types of lung cancer are non-small cell lung carcinoma and small cell lung carcinoma, the two being distinguished histologically as well as by how they are treated; non-small cell lung carcinoma is primarily treated with surgery if feasible, while small cell lung carcinoma is more frequently treated with chemotherapy and radiation.