News tagged with chemotherapy agents
Compliance and cost: Bitter pills to swallow in the age of oral chemotherapy
May 28, 2009 |
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Though the growing shift toward oral chemotherapy agents offers cancer patients greater freedom and independence during their treatment, physicians say use of the new medications also poses more chances for patients to skip ...
Experimental drug shows promise against head and neck cancer
Apr 28, 2009 |
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A laboratory study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that an anti-cancer compound studied for treating blood cancers may also help in treating cancers of ...
Novel cancer drug reduces neuroblastoma growth by 75 percent
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found a new drug that restricts the growth of neuroblastoma, a childhood brain cancer. The pre-clinical study was ...
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Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 14, 2008 |
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MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.
Considering combination versus sequential chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Both combination and sequential single-agent chemotherapy are reasonable options to treat metastatic breast cancer, but the choice between the two should ultimately be based on patient- and disease-related factors, according ...
Drugs to combat anemia in cancer patients increase risk of death
Apr 30, 2009 |
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The use of drugs to encourage red blood cell formation (erythropoiesis-stimulating agents) in cancer patients with anemia increases the risk of death and serious adverse events such as blood clots, found a new study in CMAJ.
High-intensity chemotherapy does not improve survival in small cell lung cancer
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients treated with high-dose chemotherapy did not have better survival rates than those treated with standard doses, according to a randomized controlled trial published online April 8 in ...
Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents in Living Cells
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A multidisciplinary team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed carbon nanotubes that can be used as sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The ...
Discovery major step forward in treating leukemia
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia have discovered for the first time a pathway that makes cancerous leukaemia cells resistant to treatment.
'Smart bomb' drug delivery may increase effectiveness
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Researchers may have found a way to combine imaging with chemotherapy in a single agent for the treatment of prostate cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting ...
Advanced lung cancer patients see improved, progression-free survival
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose disease has progressed following chemotherapy have a higher rate of tumor shrinkage and a longer interval before cancer progression when bevacizumab is added to standard ...
Bisphenol A linked to chemotherapy resistance
Oct 08, 2008 |
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Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments, say University of Cincinnati (UC) scientists.
Study reveals why certain ovarian cancers develop resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy
Feb 10, 2008 |
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A team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified a new mechanism that explains why some recurrent ovarian tumors become resistant to treatment with commonly used platinum-based chemotherapy ...
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