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New breast cancer guidelines mean less chemo for patients; Treatments will be targeted to specific types of tumorsASSOCIATED PRESS
Chemotherapy(or chemo) is a treatment that uses strong drugs to kill cancer cells and to stop and slow their growth. Since the drugs travel through the bloodstream, it can treat almost any type of cancer, anywhere in your body. Chemotherapy can also shrink tumors that are causing pain or o...
The most common cancer type was lung cancer, accounting for 79 cases (65.8%), followed by oesophagal cancer with 12 cases (10%). Out of the total 120 participants, 74 patients had advanced disease. The ICI drugs used in the treatment were mainly PD-1 inhibitors, including sintilimab, ...
Triple-negative breast cancer has proved particularly challenging with regard to finding a target that responds to drugs. What makes this subtype different? Two things make it difficult to really nail down targets. One is that there are so many different subtypes of triple negative. The basal and...
The chemo-protective roles of the phytochemicals are exerted by modulating the signaling pathways involved in cancer. This is found to have connections with the apoptosis induction and suppression of the epithelial to mesenchymal EMT, thereby resulting in the blockage of the metastatic behavior of ...
cancer with high levels of PD-L1 were treated with both chemo and immunotherapy, they were found to have an overall survival of 23 months. When chemotherapy alone was given, survival was only 16.1 months. The combined approach improves outcomes for people with this type of breast cancer.6 ...
Chemotherapy.Drugs can kill adenocarcinoma cells, slow their growth, or even cure your disease. These drugs may kill healthy cells as well. Radiation.Doctors use high-energy X-rays or other types of rays to kill your cancer cells. Immunotherapy.This could refer to drugs that block your immune...
Chemotherapy, or "chemo," refers to more than 100 different medications used to treat cancer and other conditions. If eliminating all cancer cells is not possible, the goals of treatment may be to slow the growth of the cancer, keep the cancer from spreading, and/or relieve cancer-associated...
Chemogenetic blockage of the CM-mPFC pathway leads to a decrease in scratching and the affective manifestations of chronic itch. Pyramidal neurons in the mPFC exhibit amplified CM input in both acute and chronic itch conditions. Chronic itch stimulation specifically modifies the engagement of mPFC ...