Some drugs damage the DNA of cancer cells to keep them from making more copies of themselves. They are called alkylating agents, the oldest type of chemotherapy. They treat many different types of cancer, such asleukemia,lymphoma,Hodgkin's disease,multiple myeloma, andsarcoma, as well as breast...
Chemotherapy is a medical treatment that is used to treat cancer using anti-cancer drugs. The drugs administered inhibit mitosis, or cell division of the cancer cells. One of the side affects is often hair loss, because the drugs usually also impact normal, healthy, fast-dividing cells, such...
While there are currently no interventions that specifically prevent metastasis,cancer patientswho have their tumors surgically removed may also be given chemotherapy (or other drugs) to try and weed out any hidden cancer cells still floating around. The best way to prevent metastasis is to diagnose...
How do I treat … a patient with chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting?11.25.-wSuperstringD-braneDirichlet p -braneScattering amplitudeContinuing our series of experts giving their point of view on a management issue, Rudolph Navari di
Immunotherapyis a form of targeted therapy involving drugs that stimulate the immune system to work harder and smarter to detect and destroy cancer cells. Immunotherapy is sometimes combined with chemotherapy to treat triple-negative breast cancer, especially when itmetastasizes(spreads).11 ...
Chemotherapy isn’t just used for cancer. It also can help treat autoimmune disorders and prepare people for bone marrow transplants. How Long Does Chemotherapy Last? Everyone has a different chemotherapy schedule. How long treatment lasts, and how often you get it, depends on: ...
The goal of ProVivoX is to use characteristics of the tumor against itself: more specifically, we want to identify if the patient would benefit from chemotherapy by dosing certain proteins directly in the tumor tissue. Our test will help cancer patients (and their clinicians) to minimize ...
(dMMR), and are resistant to the medicines currently used for those cancers. dMMR is common in endometrial and colorectal cancers, but less common in ovarian cancer9. Similar to ovarian cancer, patients may initially respond to surgery and chemotherapy, but then the cancer may return, causing...
; RFS, relapse-free survival; gBRCAmt, germline BRCA mutation; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; LABC, locally advanced breast cancer; NA, not available; NAC, neoadjuvant chemotherapy; pCR, pathologic complete response; PR, progesterone receptor; TNBC, triple-negative breast cancer....
"The side effects of immuno-oncology therapies are in some cases unique, different than what many oncologists have experienced with chemotherapy or targeted drugs, are mechanism based, and have some common themes," commented lead author Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD, of the Moffitt Cancer Center, in ...