Drug discovery and the development of safe and effective therapeutics is an intricate procedure, further complicated in the context of cancer research by the inherent heterogeneity and complexity of the disease. To address the difficulties of identifying
According to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine, some types of chemotherapy can increase aggressivity in cancer, causing malignant cells to migrate and triggering more dangerous tumors. But don’t worry, the same research team found a drug that might mitigate some of the ef...
And no case of cancer has ever been caused by having “too many” organs or “too many” body parts. That’s why cutting off one’s body parts or cutting out one’s organs will NOT cure cancer. The cancer will just come back in the same place, or a different place, or the person...
Does liver cancer grow fast? Is secondary liver cancer treatable? How is liver cancer diagnosed? Can liver cancer be misdiagnosed? Can liver cancer be inherited? Is stage 4 liver sarcoma cancer treatable with chemotherapy? Can liver cancer spread to the breast? Is liver cancer a primary cancer?
Several years ago I was undergoing chemotherapy(化疗)for breast cancer. On my off-chemo weeks I would go out for a walk around my neighborhood, with a cap on to protect my chemo-bald head from the sun。 One afternoon I was walking past a house several doors down from mine: the famil...
chemo and this and that, you go on multiple lines of therapy for years, and yet, regardless of all that downstream stuff, that first baseline test was able to tell us, ultimately, who was going to have a shorter expected life with their cancer and who was going to survive much longer....
Esther was undergoing treatment for breast cancer when she found out she was pregnant. Chemo had to be delayed until her second trimester. Today, she is cancer free. But it was a difficult two-year journey. "It was a hard conversation to have with my daughters. They just b...
No patients received preoperative chemo- or radiotherapy before surgery. All the specimens were snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and kept at − 80 °C after surgical removal. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of this hospital. The written informed consents had been obtained from all...
Optimal Immune 2 and Optimal Immune 1 improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy. They help the immune system do a much better job of dealing with the chemo. And help the liver to do the same. They improve the likelihood of success when using chemotherapies, and will reduce the negative side...
the proportional hazards assumption appears to be largely valid when assessing OS in the context of cytotoxic chemotherapies (OS trials including chemotherapies in our data set had a median |Δα| = 0.10, well below the |Δα| = 0.30 threshold for significant violation). However, the dev...