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Compound from Chinese medicine shows promise in head and neck cancer

...cottonseed could help improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy at treating head and neck cancer, researchers at t... neck cancer have allowed some patients to undergo chemotherapy and radiation therapy instead of surgery, this form of cancer is often resistant to chemotherapy. Wh...

Lance Armstrong through a physiological lens: hard training boosts muscle power 8%

...tory, also included his cancer diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy and recovery. About eight months after chemotherapy ceased (August 1997), Armstrong was tested in Coyle's laboratory in the same manner as in his other ...

Genes linked to treatment resistance in children with leukemia

...genetics might play a role in the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs. Their findings will be published in the Jun...ich are involved in the metabolism and activity of chemotherapy drugs in the body, and were therefore likely to have effects on treatment outcomes. In the analysis...

New study finds how cells with damaged DNA alert the immune system

...NA damage pathway -- was exposure to radiation and chemotherapy drugs. They found that cells in which the DNA damage pathway was triggered were the ones that exhibited an increase in the expression of special proteins on the cell surface. These "ligands" on the membrane are specific to the NKG2D receptor on natu...

Renewed hope for Parkinson's patients

...NA damage pathway -- was exposure to radiation and chemotherapy drugs. They found that cells in which the DNA damage pathway was triggered were the ones that exhibited an increase in the expression of special proteins on the cell surface. These "ligands" on the membrane are specific to the NKG2D receptor on natu...

Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatments Highlighted

...ers many non-surgical advances, such as delivering chemotherapy directly to the affected organ (chemoembolization), killing the tumor with heat (radiofrequency ablation) or freezing the tumor (cryoablation) to treat cancer locally, without harming the healthy cells in the body. Targeted delivery of gene- and immu...

Scientists develop nanotech-laser treatment that kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

... at Stanford and co-author of the study. "Standard chemotherapy destroys cancer cells and normal cells alike. That...could potentially eliminate months of debilitating chemotherapy and radiation treatment, he adds. "The laser we used is a 3-centimeter beam that's held like a flas...

Restoring silenced suppressor gene kills lung-cancer cells

...rapy might be useful when used in combination with chemotherapy and other therapies." ...

Plant gene related to cancer treatment may foster new oncology drugs

...ant growth may help explain why human cells reject chemotherapy drugs, according to an international team of scien...osely related to human P-glycoproteins that impact chemotherapy effectiveness, discovery of methods to control the plant protein's activity may aid in development o...

Nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanotubes: How tiny specks may provide powerful tools against cancer

...he cancer cells and it's like a generally systemic chemotherapy drug." Again, the LHRH-ironoxide-Hecate combin...e cancer cells would increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation, which cause such damage in the course of treatment. In preclinical work, Chang and...

Same-sex mating by fungi spawned infection outbreak, evidence suggests

...systems are crippled by immunosuppressive drugs or chemotherapy -- and people with HIV/AIDS. In contrast, C. gattii infects individuals with apparently normal immunity. Symptoms include persistent headaches, coughing and night sweats. In rare cases, C. gattii causes cryptococcal disease, pneumonia, meningitis or ...

Gene therapy potential for treatment of pancreatic cancer

...only viable treatment is surgery. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy have little impact on the disease. The research team investigated the potential of the protein vasostatin to suppress the development of new blood vessels and pancreatic tumour cells both in test tubes and in mice with pancreatic cancer. 'Solid' tu...

Jefferson researchers find nanoparticle shows promise in reducing radiation side effects

...only viable treatment is surgery. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy have little impact on the disease. The research team investigated the potential of the protein vasostatin to suppress the development of new blood vessels and pancreatic tumour cells both in test tubes and in mice with pancreatic cancer. 'Solid' tu...

The nude mouse tale: Omega-3 fats save the life of a terminal cancer patient

... with DH is not a common medical treatment such as chemotherapy or surgical excision. It was a nutritional intervention, drastically increasing the patient's intake of omega-3 fatty acids, which are often found in fish oil or golden algae oil. Pardini's previous research showed that omega-3 fatty acids significa...

Worms know bad food when they smell it

... associated with chemotherapy. Patients' receiving chemotherapy experience intestinal damage, which sends a seroto...rain that triggers nausea. "People who are getting chemotherapy are told 'eat only bland foods -- don't eat foods you really like because you won't be able to eat t...

Gene expression profile helps predict chemotherapy response in ovarian cancer patients

...ients with advanced ovarian cancer will respond to chemotherapy treatment. Described in a study in the November 1,...n cancer, post-operative treatment with first-line chemotherapy will result in an excellent clinical response," says senior author Stephen A. Cannistra, MD, directo...

Study shows combination of immune substances to be safe

...ney cancer and other tumors that respond poorly to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. But interferon can have serious side effects that limit its use. Surprisingly, the two drugs used in sequence caused no serious side effects in patients. "Interferon can be quite toxic when used alone," says principal invest...

Targeted drug delivery achieved with nanoparticle-aptamer bioconjugates

...lve surgery, radiotherapy, hormonal treatments and chemotherapy (severe cases). 3 Prostate cancer diagnosed at an ... a multi-disciplinary approach which could include chemotherapy is implicated. ...

Researchers use 'trickery' to create immune response against melanoma

...lve surgery, radiotherapy, hormonal treatments and chemotherapy (severe cases). 3 Prostate cancer diagnosed at an ... a multi-disciplinary approach which could include chemotherapy is implicated. ...

Researchers uncover mechanisms of estrogen in promoting cell death in breast cancer

...cer Institute. When cancer treatments such as chemotherapy or hormonal therapy fail to cause tumor regression, the cause is often a malfunction of a natural pathway called apoptosis, which breaks down cells in the body. Many breast cancer cells require estrogen for survival (called estrogen receptor–positiv...

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