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Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

...does not respond well to subsequent treatment with chemotherapy or radiotherapy. About half of all patients diagnosed with the disease will have a recurrence after the initial surgery. Scientists tested vaccines custom made using the individual tumors from kidney cancer patients. The study involved 558 patients ...

Combination Therapy Effective In Improving Lung Cancer Survival

Researchers from Japan say that the combination of chemotherapy with a new medication could improve survival among... was significantly higher in patients who received chemotherapy and the oral drug uracil-tegafur. Results of the study show 65 patients who received the combined th...

A Vaccine For Non – Hodgkin’s Lymphom

...h system that almost always comes back, even after chemotherapy and eventually most of these patients ultimately develop resistant disease and die of their lymphoma. The vaccine is made from a unique protein pattern from the patient's own tumor. It teaches the immune system to recognize cancer cells and kill the...

Biochemical Markers Might Help Predict Heart Problems

.... The participants each gave blood after high-dose chemotherapy to check their TNI concentration and one month lat...e patients who were TNI positive immediately after chemotherapy and 84 percent among those who remained positive a month later had a cardiac event. Researchers say...

New Method Of Delivering Chemotherapy

...py is the most aggressive way available to deliver chemotherapy right to the tumor and avoid the toxicity to the r... is disconnected from the rest of the body. Heated chemotherapy is delivered and bathes the organ for an hour. "It's a durable treatment and much more successful th...

Cancer Treatment Harsh On Patients

...were disabled by their treatment. Patients who had chemotherapy were 3.4-times more likely to be disabled. Well-re... their results should not be used to argue against chemotherapy or neck dissection and they say that treatment decisions should primarily be weighted toward treatme...

Thawed Ovarian Transplant

...is diagnosed with cancer, she often has to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This treatment can cause the ovaries to stop functioning // and leave the patient infertile. But doctors around the world have been working on ways to remove, freeze and restore a woman’s ovarian tissue. New advancement in the use ...

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

...active in tumor tissue, then the woman can undergo chemotherapy earlier in the course of her disease and possibly avoid progression. Researchers conducted the study by comparing ALCAM activity in frozen samples of 120 tumors and in 32 samples of normal breast tissue. Women who had died of breast cancer had tumo...

Drug That Is Found To Reduce Heart Damage from Chemo

A potent chemotherapy that is highly effective in treating the most common form of childhood leukemia can significantly harm the heart. However, new research shows // that adding an experimental drug to the therapy can reduce or even prevent the heart damage without lesse...

Minimizing the Effects Of Cancer Treatment

A new study shows patients who undergo chemotherapy or radiation expect a high number of side effects. Researchers found side effects from // chemotherapy or radiation can diminish the quality of life for patients. If a patient expects a certain side effe...

New Treatment Option for Colorectal Cancer

...s who have colorectal cancer that resists standard chemotherapy treatment. New research shows the drug cetuximab, also known as Erbitux, may be a promising new therapy. The standard treatment for colorectal cancer patients is the drug irinotecan (Camptosar) that can be given alone or with fluorouracil (Adrucil) ...

Looking Towards More Effective Leukemia Treatment

...iously been associated with resistance to the four chemotherapy drugs. Thus researchers conclude saying that a relatively small number of genes can play a role in the resistance to treatment for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia....

Survival Of Colon Cancer Patients

According to new research chemotherapy after surgery may not be better than surgery alone.... // However, researchers say, the study looked at chemotherapy drugs that are no longer used, so new chemotherapy regimens may be better. In 1977, a project looki...

Cancer Patients At A Greater Risk Of Developing Blood Clots

...o were surveyed treated their patients with either chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and less than 10 percent said they used hormone therapy on their patients. Results of the study showed more than 90 of the 160 doctors surveyed thought radiotherapy posed little or no increased risk for blood clots. More than 80 doc...

The Benefits Of Chemotherapy For Women With Ovarian Cancer

Researchers have found that chemotherapy improves survival and reduces the risk of recurren...s 85 percent. Most doctors may prefer not to offer chemotherapy for their patients, since eight in 10 patients are adequately treated by surgery alone , thus doctor...

Enhancing Survival Rate Of Lung Cancer Patients

...ive either three or four cycles of cisplatin-based chemotherapy or observation. In addition to cisplatin, the drug...showed that after five years, patients assigned to chemotherapy had a significantly higher survival rate at 44.5 percent than those assigned to observation who had ...

New Compound Could Strengthen The Effect Of Chemotherapy

...y of a new compound known as SP-4-84 could improve chemotherapy when use in conjunction with // chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin and camptothecin . Study results showed over 48 hours, small amounts of SP-...

The Addition Of Radiation Therapy Found To Improve Survival In Breast Cancer Patients

...erapy to a treatment regimen already consisting of chemotherapy and radical mastectomy // leads to better surviva... chemotherapy/radiation combination, compared with chemotherapy alone, was associated with vast improvements for the patients. These included a 32-percent reduction...

Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Effectively Treated With Chemotherapy

...es in the past have shown that secondary treatment chemotherapy in women with early stage breast cancer significan...n ages 70 and older. Thus researchers suggest that chemotherapy may be significantly underused or dosages may be too low for the particular age group . Researchers...

New treatment for Cancer by injecting heated drugs

The process is called intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy (IPHC) and is currently //being considered as the ...series of tubes and a pump that will inject heated chemotherapy drugs inside the abdominal cavity for a couple of houirs. The higher temperature increases the eff...

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