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Understanding Gene Profiles Could Help Cure A Resistant Form Of Leukemia In Kids

...eukemia // ( ALL ) are resistant to treatment with chemotherapy drugs. According to researchers chemotherapy cures about 80 percent of ALL cases, but the remaining 20 percent have cancer cells that are resista...

Combination Therapy Found To Be More Effective In Treating Brain Cancer

...e better with a combination of radiotherapy and // chemotherapy than radiotherapy alone . Based on findings of th...rapy alone or radiotherapy in conjunction with the chemotherapy drug temozolomide (Temodal). It was seen that about 85 percent of the patients had previously unde...

Cure For Persistent Oral Fungal Problem May Be Possible

...ering from HIV-AIDS, Organ transplant patients and chemotherapy patients. http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article- page.html?article=66080009...

Mouth Infection better handled with new discovery

...ith weakened immune systems caused by antibiotics, chemotherapy or diseases such as AIDS. Denture wearers may also be affected. It can be treated by antifungal medications in otherwise healthy people, but it is harder to treat in people with compromised immunity and can be deadly if it infects vital organs. It w...

Cell’s microenvironment linked to cancer

...ironment," Maniotis said. "Many current forms of chemotherapy target DNA directly and are associated with significant side effects," Folberg said. "We're developing methods of manipulating the genome that may be non-toxic and still highly effective." The study was supported by grants from the National Eye Ins...

Cancer Patients Prone To 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...

New hope for breast cancer patients

...e drug Herceptin combined with chemotherapy. While chemotherapy is usually given to such patients after surgery, t... is 42% more successful in eliminating tumors than chemotherapy alone. In the in Herceptin-treated patients, the rate of pathological complete remission (pcr), wher...

Using herbal remedies with chemotherapy may not be a good idea

... However if this is used in// conjunction with the chemotherapy taken for breast cancer the results may be altered. Scientists of Yale School of Medicine in a research report have said that alternative medication or self medication taken by breast cancer patients may alter the way cells respond to chemotherapy. ...

Biomarker for prostate cancer may be separated for treatment

...als to treat the prostate cancer disease with both chemotherapy and immunotherapy, for better and more effective w...d, to reach the biomarker. This had been done by a chemotherapy agent, which destroys the microtubules. Cancer of the prostate glands is one of the deadlier cancer...

Low doses of chemotherapy good for children

...rapy as well. The researchers had looked into the chemotherapy given to children suffering from Acute Lymphblasti...od cancer were administered very limited dosage of chemotherapy and were monitored for a period of 12 years. The results had showed that 86.4% of the patients und...

Risk of breast cancer may be lowered by diet

...pectomy plus radiation, tamoxifen for ER positive, chemotherapy for ER negative, and optional chemotherapy for ER positive cases The results of the study shows that reduction of dietary fat can reduce breas...

Cancer drug brings relief to patients of Crohn’s Diseas

... of the white blood cells that may drop during the chemotherapy administered to treat patients suffering from cancer. The drug helps the patient gain in immunity to fight outside germs. Traditionally it is believed that Crohn’s disease is an over activation of the immune system and treatment comprised of giving ...

Genetics linked to leukemia treatment success rate in children

...ich are involved in the metabolism and reaction to chemotherapy drugs used in treating cancer. The results had showed that for children in the lower risk group, having TYMS 3/3 genotype may be a risk factor for the disease. For the children in the high-risk group, GSTM1 non-null genotype was responsible for trea...

Treatment for chemobrain may be possible

... People who suffer from cancer and had to undergo chemotherapy often find the process of treatment affecting thei...cipants of the study had completed four circles of chemotherapy when the drug d-MPH were prescribed and administered to them. Researchers confirmed that their study...

New protein found that could slow pancreatic cancer

...ified. The cancer often resists interventions like chemotherapy and may be diagnosed at a time when even surgery may not be able to help the patients. Researchers from Dartmouth Medical School, US, have found a protein that inactivates the mechanism to suppress the growth of the cells. TGF-beta molecules regulat...

Obese women with breast cancer may be under treated.

... in overweight and obese women undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy is given to women who have no spread of the cancer beyond the primary tumor. This improves the overa...

High-Dosage of Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide may cause AML

Adjuvant chemotherapy with epirubicin and cyclophosphamide for early bre...ports that early breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy with higher than standard cumulative doses of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide have an increased risk...

Drug Tarceva for End-stage Lung cancer

... 482 patients. The study was done to prove that if chemotherapy is given to lung cancer patients after surgery, th...rate of these patients is high. Surgeries prior to chemotherapy improved cure rate, 69% of the recruits are still alive five years later, compared with 54% who just...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

Treatment with chemotherapy drug Carboplatin is more effective and produces le...e recruited in this study to compare the effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Between 1996 and 2001, the researchers randomly assigned 543 patients with stage I...

Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

...itals in 14 countries to compare radiotherapy with chemotherapy treatment. Between 1996 and 2001, the researchers ... radiation and is less toxic. Patients assigned to chemotherapy also had fewer seminomas occurring in the remaining testis than those receiving radiotherapy. Though...

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