For years, doctors have given cancer patients three main treatments: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Now researchers are developing a fourth weapon: the patient’s own immune system. New vaccines and drugs can stimulate the production of an army of cells and antibodies that kill cancer cells...
The demand for biologics—which target specific pathways and cells in challenging therapeutic areas, such as cancer and rare diseases—is increasing. Thanks to the introduction of new modalities such as mRNA, biologics are expanding the range of treatments available to patients and healthcare professio...
Three cancer treatments accepted for use by SMCdoi:10.1007/s40274-015-2083-0NoneSpringer International PublishingPharmacoeconomics & Outcomes News
The anti-tumor immune cells is a novel way to treat cancer, as opposed to the traditional three treatments it has its unique advantages that the use of their own cells to kill cancer cells, a strong purpose. This paper describes the concept of immune cells, classification, anti-cancer theo...
Surgery is generally accepted as a major treatment option for the patients with early-stage lung cancer [3], containing older people [15]. The patients aged ≥75 years have been eliminated in most clinical studies on surgical treatments for lung cancer when selecting patients. However, with ...
Randomized double-blind factorial trial of three treatments to reduce the prevalence of precancerous gastric lesions. Randomized double-blind factorial trial of three treatments to reduce the prevalence of precancerous gastric lesions. Helicobacter InfectionsHelicobacter pyloriPre... You Wei-cheng,LM ...
A strength of this study is that we included a diverse sample of cancer patients (i.e., receiving different type of treatments, at different disease stage and from several countries). To our knowledge, WISP is the only open-ended instrument for which experience with coding and analyses of ad...
Recent clinical trials show docetaxel (DTX), given in conjunction with radiation therapy (RT) and androgen suppression, improves survival in high-risk prostate cancer. Addition of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) to this current DTX/RT protocol is expected to f
To collect each kind of cancer case on advanced stage and investigate the actualizing of three steps analgesic therapy. 同时统计各类晚期癌症患者病例,调查其住院期间镇痛用药实施“癌症三级止痛阶梯疗法”的情况。5) three-stage analgesics for cancer 癌症三阶梯止痛6...
These data identify unmet needs among patients with follicular lymphoma, especially those who are refractory to alkylating agents, and might provide evidence by which clinical trials evaluating novel treatments could be assessed. Funding:Genentech and the National Cancer Institute. 展开 ...