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Working In Harmony - MIT-designed Nanoparticles Communicate Inside The Body To ...

For decades, researchers have been working to develop nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors, minimizing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy. However, even with the best of these nanoparticles, only about 1 percent of the drug ...

Jun 18, 2011

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On Father's Day -- Make Time for a Long, Slow Walk

By Bruce Feiler Three years ago this month I was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening form of bone cancer in my left leg. I was the 'walking guy' who might never walk again. I endured a “lost year” involving nine months of chemotherapy...

Jun 18, 2011

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Chemo Length May Not Affect Survival in Some B-cell Lymphomas

CHICAGO – It doesn't seem to matter whether patients with newly diagnosed, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma receive a standard chemotherapy regimen in a dose-dense fashion every 14 days for six cycles, or every 21 days for eight cycles, said inves...

Jun 16, 2011

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Research and Markets: Chemotherapy Clinic Market in India Is Forecast To Reach ...

This report covers the chemotherapy clinic industry in India. Chemotherapy in its literal sense refers to a particular treatment that is used to kill micro organisms or cancerous cells to treat a disease and in simple terms Chemotherapy is a treatmen...

Jun 15, 2011

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Chemotherapy Cognition Declines Helped By Practicing Tai Chi

Chemotherapy results in about one-third of breast cancer patients experiencing cognition declines that last beyond treat... Read Morement, but a pilot study has found that practicing tai chi for as little as four hours weekly can help. ...

Jun 15, 2011

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Nuvilex Anticipates Enhancement of Multi-Drug Cancer Therapies by Inclusion of ...

Currently, many cancer chemotherapy regimens under investigation and some currently in use, rely on multiple drugs given simultaneously or in sequence (combination chemotherapy). The effectiveness of combination chemotherapy regimens may also be ...

Jun 15, 2011

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Transplant in First Remission Holds Off Progression in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

CHICAGO – Patients with high-risk, diffuse, aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma fared better when they received an autologous stem cell transplant during their first remission after chemotherapy than did similar patients who received standard ...

Jun 15, 2011

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Bladder Cancer in 2010: How Far have We Come? - Cancer Forums

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer and ranks eighth as a cause of death from cancer among men in the United States. Although guidelines assist in treatment, the art of managing bladder cancer, such as the decision to use neoadjuvant chem...

Jun 30, 2011

ATP Chemotherapy Response Assay in Breast Cancer - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

South Korean researchers, using an adenosine triphosphate (ATP) chemotherapy response assay reported results in breast cancer. According to the researchers, it had the advantage of standardization, evaluability, reproducibility and accuracy and could...

Sep 25, 2010

Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

A study was presented at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Onocology (ASCO) breast cancer symposium in San Francisco about progress in drug selection through the use of cell-based functional profiling. It delt with the so-called "triple negative"...

Oct 22, 2010

A Genomic Predictor of Response and Survival Following Taxane-Anthracycline Chemo - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

A Genomic Predictor of Response and Survival Following Taxane-Anthracycline Chemotherapy for Invasive Breast Cancer Christos Hatzis, PhD; Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil; Vicente Valero, MD; Daniel J. Booser, MD; Laura Esserman, MD, MBA; Ana Lluch, MD; Tat...

Jun 09, 2011

FDA says breast cancer drug did not extend lives - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

Treating breast cancer with a combination of chemotherapy and Avastin is not clinically meaningful, according a document published by the FDA. The FDA said the level of improvement in women treated with chemotherapy and Avastin was not significantly ...

Aug 26, 2010

New Study On Multi-Gene Predictors - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

Precision Therapeutics Announces New Study On Multi-Gene Predictors At 2010 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium In a new study in which Precision Therapeutics' Multi-Gene Predictors (MGPs) were independently validated by investigators at US Oncology...

Jan 20, 2011

Iniparib plus Chemotherapy in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

Iniparib plus Chemotherapy in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Joyce O'Shaughnessy, M.D., Cynthia Osborne, M.D., John E. Pippen, M.D., Mark Yoffe, M.D., Debra Patt, M.D., Christine Rocha, M.Sc., Ingrid Chou Koo, Ph.D., Barry M. Sherman, M.D....

Jul 31, 2011

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What is Chemotherapy?

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Why is chemotherapy such a long treatment?

Answer: Cancer cells divide quickly but they also take rests between divisions, just like normal cells do. During these resting periods, the cancer cells are relatively safe from chemotherapy drugs, which only attack while the tumor cells are growing o...

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How will I feel during chemotherapy?

Answer: Chemotherapy affects people in different ways. How you feel depends on how healthy you are before treatment, your type of cancer, how advanced it is, the kind of chemotherapy you are getting, and the dose. Doctors and nurses cannot know for certain h...

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How does chemotherapy affect the brain?

Answer: Chemotherapy is used when cancer has spread in the body. It is a systemic treatment, which means it goes through the entire body and affects every cell. Therefore, chemotherapy will reach brain cells. Chemotherapy is also used to directly treat certa...

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What does chemotherapy do?

Answer: While surgery and radiation therapy are used to treat localized cancers, chemotherapy is typically used to treat cancer cells that have metastasized (spread) to other parts of the body. Depending on the type of cancer and its stage of development, ch...

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What can chemotherapy do to treat thyroid cancer?

Answer: Chemotherapy is used to reduce the chance that thyroid cancer will spread to other parts of the body. Chemotherapy may be given after surgery to reduce this chance. If given after surgery, it is called adjuvant chemotherapy. In thyroid cancer, chemot...

What can chemotherapy do to treat thyroid cancer?

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Can NIOXIN be used during chemotherapy?

Answer: NIOXIN products may be used during chemotherapy. Hair loss (alopecia) is a common side effect of chemotherapy treatments. Not all chemotherapy drugs cause hair loss and some drugs only cause thinning of the hair or cause it to become brittle. NIOXI...

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