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Dry Mouth and How to Alleviate It

Chemotherapy and radiation therapy in the head or neck area can reduce the flow of saliva and cause dry mouth.

When this happens, foods are harder to chew and swallow. Dry mouth also can change the way foods taste. Some of the ideas for sore mouth and throat may help. The suggestions below also may help you deal with dry mouth.

Constipation

Using Food to Combat Constipation

Depending on the type of cancer, constipation is an early symptom for cancers that impact the gastrointestinal tract, such as colon cancer. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatments can also cause constipation. U-M Rogel Cancer Center Nutrition Services offers some suggestions to help alleviate constipation.

Managing Eating Problems

For people with cancer, eating well is critical

Doctors and researchers have found that patients who eat well during their treatments, especially those who eat diets high in protein and calories, are better able to withstand the side effects of the treatments, be they chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, or immunotherapy. Those who eat well may even be able to withstand higher doses of certain treatments.

U.S. global share of research spending declines

The research and development spending in the United States dropped from $131 billion to $119 billion, when adjusted for inflation, from 2007-2012, while Japan increased spending by $9 billion and China increased by $6.4 billion. Overall, Asia's share of spending grew from 18 percent to 24 percent. Europe held steady at 29 percent.

Surgery beats chemotherapy for tongue cancer, U-M study finds

Patients with tongue cancer who started their treatment with a course of chemotherapy fared significantly worse than patients who received surgery first, according to a new study from researchers at the U-M Rogel Cancer Center.

Clinical trial tests new treatment for rare cancer

Adrenal cancer researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center are seeing the results of their laboratory studies translate to a clinical trial to test a potential new therapy in patients.

St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor and University of Michigan Partner in Nationwide Cancer Prevention Study

Ann Arbor-area residents have one last opportunity to join the movement to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays by participating in Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3), a historic study that has the potential to change the face of cancer for future generations.

Rogel Cancer Center leader elected to prestigious Institute of Medicine

Eric Fearon among 3 U-M faculty members in this year's class.

Newly identified proteins make promising targets for blocking graft-vs.-host disease

Researchers from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have identified new proteins that control the function of critical immune cell subsets called T-cells, which are responsible for a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplants.

Mutations linked to breast cancer treatment resistance

Written by Nicole Fawcett

Gene sequencing reveals mutations in estrogen receptor

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have identified a type of mutation that develops after breast cancer patients take anti-estrogen therapies. The mutations explain one reason why patients often become resistant to this therapy.

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