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While effective in some instances, traditional chemotherapy often falls short of entirely eradicating various types of cancer. It can cause severe side effects due to harm to healthy cells. Two therapeutic approaches have risen to the forefront to address these limitations: metronomic chemotherapy (MCT...
Allo SCT offers hope as second-line therapy for CML Lisa Hutchinson News & Views|01 June 2010 Alternatives to surgery after failure of instillation therapy Management of high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer represents a difficult challenge in clinical practice. The dilemma is to decide betwe...
Now, aptamers are increasingly being studied as good alternatives. They are created using single RNA or DNA strands, which have the same targeting potential as antibodies, but appear to be nontoxic. In their study on prostate cancer cells, the researchers focused on an RNA ligand called E3, wh...
(liver cancer) treatment... dissatisfied with his response to standard oncology treatments for liver cancer, chuck decided to look for alternatives, expecting better results. "they tried embolization, [but it... stage 4 lung cancer with brain metastases treatmen... a long wait time to consult ...
Consolidation chemotherapy, or post-remission chemotherapy, is sometimes part of treatment for leukemias and a small number of other types of cancer. It involves multiple treatment cycles over several months in order to sustain remission. Maintenance chemotherapy generally refers to long-term low-dose ...
Recently targeted therapies appeared as attractive alternatives to classical antitumoral treatments. The approach, developed on the concept of targeting drug to cancer cells, aims to spear normal tissues and decrease the side effects. This doctoral dissertation focuses on developing new anticancer targeted...
lymphoma, including the two most common forms: non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin. But alternatives to chemotherapy are developing, as first-line treatments and as backup options, explains Stephen Ansell, M.D., Ph.D., hematology chair and hematologic oncologist at the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) therapy efficiency can be influenced by the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract. Compared with traditional intervention, prebiotics delivery into the gut is a more controllable method for gut microbiota modulatory therapy. Ca
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is a well-established treatment modality for locally advanced breast cancer (BC). However, it can also result in severe toxicities while controlling tumors. Therefore, reliable predictive biomarkers are urgently needed to o