chemotherapy game-changer for stage 4 cancer for years, patients and doctors have been asking, "why does chemotherapy only work for some patients and not others?" for example, a patient may try a different chemo regimen over and over, may "respond" to chemotherapy and have 30% tumor ...
Many women presenting with Stage 11 or III breast cancer will relapse following initial adjuvant therapy. As current standard therapy will not cure patients with metastatic disease, dose intensification and new cytotoxic agents are being studied extensively. These new agents include vinorelbine, ...
Many chemotherapy drugs used for treating breast cancer are given in liquid form, as intravenous (IV, into the vein) infusions or injections (into the skin), but some are available as pills or tablets.2 Some drugs may be given alone, and other drugs are combined to work together. When ch...
Gene therapy for breast cancer initially involves local or systemic delivery. Local delivery may be intrapleural or via direct injection to lesions. However, systemic delivery remains the greatest challenge with targeting, although methods using antibodies or growth factor receptor ligands have been demon...
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Pharmacists in the U.S. are warning that hundreds of medications are in short supply. Among some of the most concerning are shortages of chemotherapy drugs and those needed for ADHD, like Adderall. CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder, editor-at-large for public health at KFF, ...
Most cancer chemotherapy drugs target rapidly dividing cells. A typical course of preventive chemotherapy lasts three to six months depending on the type and stage of the cancer, which is determined by examining the cancer removed...
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Mortality from breast cancer is almost exclusively a result of tumor metastasis and resistance to therapy and therefore understanding the underlying mechanisms is an urgent challenge. Chemotherapy, routinely used to treat breast cancer, induces extensive
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