Efeitos secundários da quimioterapia (perda paladar)

Perda de paladar é um efeito secundário pouco falado:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/chemotherapy-diet-best-foods-cancer-treatment-flavour-macmillan-a7642861.html

Citando:
"For people with cancer, having it treated often brings with it a range of side effects which can be extremely debilitating.

Patients undergoing chemotherapy most commonly experience life-affecting side effects including fatigue, hair loss, weight loss, vomiting and nausea and memory and concentration problems.

One of the lesser known side effects is loss of taste. Many people undergoing the treatment suddenly find they can not enjoy the foods they usually do, or find that all food is tasting the same or that they cannot taste anything at all."

Invenção americana para preservar (algum) cabelo durante quimioterapia

A irei é reduzir a circulação nas zonas dos folículos (e como tal, a exposição ao medicamento que destrói as células dos folículos capilares):
http://cdanews.com/2016/12/cooling-caps-protect-cancer-patients-hair-during-chemotherapy/


Citando:
"With the caps, reports Tech Times, the scalp is cooled to 66 degrees Farenheit, therefore constricting blood vessels and blood flow. With less blood reaching the scalp, chemotherapy treatment is halted from having its full effect and therefore less hair follicles will be damaged.
ChemoColdCaps™ is the United States’ first all-inclusive company (...)"

Quimioterapia e efeitos nos tecidos dos ovários?

http://news.sky.com/story/cancer-drugs-prompt-ovaries-to-produce-eggs-10685811
Citando:
"They will be looking at the individual drugs which make up ABVD, to better understand what has been happening and how the drugs work.
This could help them learn more about women's fertility and how they might be able to produce more eggs.
It was previously thought that women were born with a finite number of eggs, but this might not now be true if it is shown drugs can trigger more to be produced. "

Imunoterapia eficaz para cancro do pâncreas?

Novas perspectivas para um cancro com uma taxa de mortalidade elevadíssima:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/06/new-drug-wakes-up-immune-system-to-fight-one-of-deadliest-cancers

Parar a esclerose múltipla? - Estudo / Tratamento

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36490315
Citando:
"The condition causes the immune system to attack the lining of nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Most patients are diagnosed in their 20s and 30s.
One existing treatment is for the immune system to be suppressed with chemotherapy and then stem cells are introduced to the patient's bloodstream - this procedure is known as an autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).


(...)
But in this study, Canadian researchers went further - not just suppressing the immune system, but destroying it altogether.
It is then rebuilt with stem cells harvested from the patient's own blood which are at such an early stage, they have not developed the flaws that trigger MS.
The authors said that among the survivors, over a period of up to 13 years, there were no relapses and no new detectable disease activity."
(...) "1 person died".

Controlar os tumores com quimio (doses não massivas)

Manter os tumores controlados em vez de administrar doses massivas (que poderão deixar o organismo debilitado e palco "fácil" para propagação - em desiquilíbrio):
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/news-report/2016-02-25-controlling-tumours-with-chemo-may-help-manage-some-cancers-long-term