Sentences with phrase «chemotherapy drugs do»

Chemotherapy drugs do not discriminate in the cells they destroy.

Not exact matches

Doctors use chemotherapy to try to shrink them, but because the pancreatic tumor doesn't have that many blood vessels, the drugs don't often reach the tumor in the desired concentration.

Many laboratory tests were performed and chemotherapy — requiring intravenous punctures — was resumed, even though studies had shown that this type of cancer does not respond significantly, if at all, to drug treatment, and even though complications and side effects from the drugs were expected.

Sengupta and his colleagues took breast cancer cells that did not have the markings of CSCs and exposed them to docetaxel, a common chemotherapy drug.

«A lot of work still needs to be done to develop this into a chemotherapy drug,» Raman cautions.

In these cases, the pregnancy is terminated noninvasively with methotrexate, a chemotherapy drug highly toxic to growing fetal tissues; the procedure usually doesn't preclude conceiving again.

Moreover, in some cases, pancreatic cancer cells can even repair damage to their DNA caused by the chemotherapy drugs that do get into the tumor, further protecting themselves.

That may be great if you are using carbon nanotubes to deliver chemotherapy drugs to people with brain tumors, as cancer researchers in California (at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment center in Duarte in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena), hope to do.

Professor Michael Lisanti, who designed the study, explained: «We now know that a proportion of cancer cells escape chemotherapy and develop drug resistance; we established this new strategy to find out how they do it.

Glioblastomas are particularly difficult to treat because these tumors grow exceptionally quickly and do not respond well to most available chemotherapy drugs.

This system could, for example, enable single - administration vaccines that do not require boosters as well as a new way to deliver chemotherapy, hormone therapy, or drugs that facilitate wound healing.

Dai's research team is testing a cancer killer that does not harm healthy cells and acts without drugs or chemotherapy.

«Our long - term goal is to find a way to monitor outcomes very early so that we don't give a chemotherapy drug to patients who are not responding to it.»

Unlike with the typical methods for drug delivery used in chemotherapy, the system did not attack healthy lung cells.

Ninety - six of the children were exposed to chemotherapy, 11 were exposed to radiotherapy, 13 were exposed to surgery, two were exposed to drug treatments and 14 had mothers who did not undergo treatment while pregnant.

A: Yes, this program can be done in conjunction with chemotherapy, radiation and / or drug therapies.

How Do Chemotherapy Drugs Work?

It's become normal to die of cancer, to get chemotherapy, to accept pharmaceutical drugs as «medicine» when really it's nothing but a temporary fix that doesn't do a single thing for the cause (s) of the problem to create a sustainable fix.

This is because medicine does not screen for autoimmunity until symptoms are advanced and severe enough for a diagnosis and treatment with steroids, chemotherapy drugs, or surgery.

One study looked at the effect of virgin coconut oil when supplemented in a diet high in consumption of heated vegetable oils, and how virgin coconut oil protected the liver and kidneys, and the other study looked at how virgin coconut oil can reverse the free radical damage done by cancer chemotherapy drugs.

While Lysodren, a human chemotherapy drug, does work to treat canine Cushing's, it can have severe side effects.