Conclusion Compared with endocrine therapy alone, the addition of chemotherapy did not improve the prognosis of patients with luminal type A and lymph node positive cancer; instead, side effects of the additional chemotherapy may have negatively affected prognosis. Prospective studies are needed to ...
to their treatment. Side effects of chemotherapy drugs are displayed in tables over several pages in a recently published and reviewed bookShattering theCancer Myth - A Positive Guide to Beating Cancer- 4th Edition. It is quite difficult for a conventionally trained scientist like myself to fully ...
Studies have confirmed that 20% of breast cancer patients die of brain metastases [2]. Since most drugs cannot pass through the blood–brain barrier (BBB), chemotherapy alone has a limited effect [3]; additionally, brain metastases are mostly multiple foci, which makes them difficult to be ...
This retrospective cohort study examines the association of chemotherapy with survival in elderly patients with multiple comorbidities and estrogen
Dave Fredrickson, Executive Vice President, Oncology Hematology Business Unit, AstraZeneca, said: “With this first approval of Datroway in the US, we continue to deliver on our ambition for antibody drug conjugates to improve upon and replace conventional chemotherapy for the treatment of multiple ...
After consideration of the long-term side effects elicited by radiotherapy, several studies have endeavored to explore the role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nCT) as monotherapy. In the FOWARC study, though the neoadjuvant with mFOLFOX6 alone achieved a postoperative pCR rate of 6.6%, the rates of...
Assessing a 12 week Dru Yoga intervention during neoadjuvant chemotherapy (CT), Jong et al. found that QOL assessed by the European Organization for Research in the Treatment of Cancer-Quality of Life C30 scale (EORTC QLQ C30) decreased in global health status, physical functioning, and ro...
The most common side effects of OPDIVO when used in combination with fluoropyrimidine and platinum-containing chemotherapy include: nausea numbness, pain, tingling, or burning in your hands or feet decreased appetite feeling tired constipation
Tumor initiating cells or cancer stem cells (CSCs) are thought to be responsible for tumor initiation, metastasis and recurrence, with the resistance to conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy in many different cancers [12]. They possess the capacity of self-renewal, differentiation as well as ...
To address this evidence gap, a team of international researchers set out to evaluate the effects of remote monitoring of chemotherapy related side effects on symptom burden, supportive care needs, anxiety, work limitations, and quality of life. Their findings are based on 829 patients aged 18 ye...