FDA Approves 3 Treatments, Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise Alex Biese Brielle Benyon The Food and Drug Administration recently approved treatment for some patients with neuroblastoma, kidney cancer and bladder cancer. Elsewhere, a cancer vaccine made headlines for the treatment of patients with melanoma. D...
Less invasive treatments such as imaging-guided PD, while having a lower success rate than laparoscopic marsupialisation, have an important role to play. These can be performed quickly, providing immediate decompression of large lymphoceles, i.e., lymphoceles compressing the pelvic veins, as ...
Radical prostatectomy is one of the most popular treatments for prostate cancer. Surgery is broadcasted all over the media as the gold standard of prostate cancer treatment. But does surgery really live up to the hype? This episode of PROSTATE PROS covers the “Just Cut it Out!” mentality, ...
with 1,688,780 new cases and 600,920 cancer deaths projected for 2017. Over the next 20 years, the number of new cases is projected to increase by about 70% [1]. Current treatments may include chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, but the effects of these procedures may damage not only ...
Common treatments of lung cancer include drug treatment, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery and targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. Recently, new methods, such as drug delivery systems and the use of nano drugs, have been widely considered. Various nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), ...
Limitations of conventional chemotherapy and current treatments for cancers Chemotherapy, the most widely used cancer treatment method, was first introduced in the year 1942 by Drs. Gilman, Goodman, and Gustaf Lindskogas 0.1 mg/kg−1 of synthetic “lymphocidal chemical” to treat a person who ...
41 Though efficacy was limited in this heavily pre-treated population, given the lack of available subsequent-line therapies for PDAC patients, this approach warrants continued investigation, particularly as an earlier line of therapy and in combination with other treatments. Data regarding Bintrafusp ...
The specific targeting of the initial stage of autophagy has become a bona fide drug target for the discovery of anti-cancer treatments, such as inhibitors of i) ULK1/2 (Tang et al., 2017; Egan et al., 2015; Petherick et al., 2015) ii) VPS34 (Ronan et al., 2014; Pasquier, 2015...
The short-term target of house medical offers us with treatment amenities for illness and personal injuries. But however, the long term health care scheme supplies us with chronically sick-treatment or treatments for impaired people. Through the help of the Asbestos survey, it can be recognized ...
Intra-arterial (IA) therapy for stroke – a diverse group of endovascular therapies that includes thrombolysis,mechanical clot retrieval or both – is an increasingly utilised management approach for acute ischaemic stroke. In 2012( 10)000 to 12,000 IA stroke treatments were estimated to have been...