Sentences with phrase «by cancer chemotherapy»

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.

Published in the prestigious journal PLOS ONE, the researchers say that combining grape seed extracts with chemotherapy has potential as a new approach for bowel cancer treatment - to both reduce intestinal damage commonly caused by cancer chemotherapy and to enhance its effect.

In a beautifully ironic twist for a natural chemical falsely accused of causing stomach cancer, capsaicin has been shown to be «absolutely effective» in alleviating the pain from oral stomatitis, mouth sores caused by cancer chemotherapy and radiation treatments, according to Dr. Ann M. Berger of Yale University's Pain Management Center.

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«My family was shocked by how many cancer patients had difficulty getting to their chemotherapy treatments.»

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

Those drugs in combination reduce patients «risk of death or their cancer progressing by 42 percent versus chemotherapy, still beating Wall Street «s estimates.

For years it has been used by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy to battle the often debilitating effects of nausea.

The actor was knighted by the Queen at Windsor Castle in 2015, when he was midway through a course of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer.

Doxorubicin is a chemotherapy drug used to treat a wide range of cancers by preventing cancer cells from replicating.

Researchers led by Patricia Donahoe and Xiaolong Wei of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that the common chemotherapy agent doxorubicin actually encourages the growth of ovarian cancer stem cells.

«Cervical cancer patients are currently treated as a uniform group based on chemotherapy and radiation regimens that help the largest percentage of people; however, one third of these patients are not helped by standard therapies,» Banister said.

Chemotherapy drugs designed to kill tumors may actually encourage ovarian cancer by stimulating the growth of cells that give rise to the malignancy, a new study finds.

Inspired by his own bout of leukemia to try to find a better cancer treatment, retired broadcasting station owner Kanzius guessed that as an alternative to chemotherapy, he could inject tumors with metal ions, then use radio waves to heat the metal and destroy cancerous cells.

So far there's no approved drug on the market that reverses cancer chemotherapy resistance caused by P - glycoprotein, or P - gp for short, said Vogel, a biochemistry professor at SMU.

McKenna and his team have identified four different drugs — including the anti-HIV drug nelfinavir — that can disrupt the process by which hypoxia occurs, restoring proper blood flow to the tumours and making them more vulnerable to chemotherapy (Cancer Research, DOI: 10.1158 / 0008 - 5472.

By creating an experimental model of leukemia in mice whose cancer cells were resistant to chemotherapy the team was able to caracterize these cells» metabolic profile and observed certain modifications at the level of the mitochondria.

«They also suggest that low - dose metronomic chemotherapy or targeting the chemokine signaling mediated by chemo - treated fibroblasts may improve the therapeutic outcome in desmoplastic cancers.»

By hitting breast cancer cells with a targeted therapeutic immediately after chemotherapy, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) were able to target cancer cells during a transitional stage when they were most vulnerable, killing cells and shrinking tumors in the lab and in pre-clinical models.

By hitting breast cancer cells with a targeted therapeutic immediately after chemotherapy, researchers were able to target cancer cells during a transitional stage when they were most vulnerable.

By the time of diagnosis the majority of women with ovarian cancer already have extensive spread of the disease which makes it difficult to treat by surgery or chemotherapBy the time of diagnosis the majority of women with ovarian cancer already have extensive spread of the disease which makes it difficult to treat by surgery or chemotherapby surgery or chemotherapy.

«In pancreatic, ovarian and liver cancers, we hope that by adding anti-cancer stem cell drugs to standard of care, we can control proliferating cells within the tumor that could otherwise help the tumor regenerate in the face of existing chemotherapies.»

A blood cancer characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal white blood cells, AML is typically treated with chemotherapy, in some cases followed by a stem cell transplant.

Of the dogs stricken with osteosarcoma, 35 had the cancer in a leg which was subsequently amputated, followed by chemotherapy, which is the standard - of - care treatment; the dogs with elevated total cholesterol had a median survival time of 455 days, more than 200 days greater than the median survival time for dogs with normal cholesterol.

We identified patients with mutations that predict phenomenal outcomes in the disease; this is a group of women with endometrial cancer who won't need the financial, physical or emotional toll of chemotherapy at all — they're patients who are probably cured by surgery alone.

The addition of high doses of a form of vitamin A could help make chemotherapy more successful in treating pancreatic cancer, according to an early study by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

By using «gemcitabine» chemotherapy to target cancer cells, and a form of vitamin A to target the surrounding stromal cells, the combined approach led to a reduction in cancer cell proliferation and invasion.

«Pancreatic cancer is extremely hard to treat by chemotherapy, so this finding is important because vitamin A targets the non-cancerous tissue and makes the existing chemotherapy more effective, killing the cancer cells and shrinking tumours.

Most cancer chemotherapy relies on cells absorbing drugs by diffusion across the cell membrane.

«CRKII most likely regulates the stability of mutated epidermal growth factor receptors and drives cancer growth by promoting signaling, or communication, within cancer cells,» said Julia Petschnigg, lead author on the paper and a postdoctoral fellow at U of T. «We found that a combinatorial chemotherapy that inhibits those mutated receptors and CRKII could be beneficial in treating lung cancer.»

Cancer cells had essentially figured out how to survive by rewiring their metabolism in response to chemotherapy.

Potential cancer treatments are loitering in the wings as clinical trials are delayed by widespread shortages of common chemotherapy drugs.

To date, it was assumed that chloroquine increases the sensitivity of cancer cells to chemotherapy by means of a direct effect on the cancer cells.

But a new study reports that these tiny flecks of carbon can shrink tumors in mice by delivering chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells.

This is characterised by the targeted strengthening of the body's own immune cells, unlike in chemotherapy, in which the aim is direct destruction of the cancer cells.

Autophagy has emerged as a key pathway that cancer cells use to survive in the face of assault by chemotherapy and radiation; however, autophagy as a potential druggable mechanism in patients who become resistant to BRAF inhibitors has not been investigated.

«We hope that our test will significantly improve the odds of survival of breast cancer patients by allowing doctors to identify the most effective but least toxic form of chemotherapy for each individual patient before the treatment begins.»

Rad3 signalling ensures that cells do not divide before DNA damages are repaired and thus provides cancer cells with a mechanism to resist chemotherapy by repairing these DNA damages.

As part of the project, announced last week by Kenneth Hagemann, director of the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency, 24 soldiers from Brooks Air Force Base in Texas are taking prescription drugs — ondansetron hydrochloride and granisetron hydrochloride — that are given to cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

A drug used to treat men with late - stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

This analysis, done on separate samples from the same patient, revealed that many of the affected genes confer advantages to cancer cells by, for example, enhancing cell migration or resistance to chemotherapy.

«Triple - negative breast cancers are cancer cells that lack three receptors targeted by current chemotherapy regimens.

For example, women whose cancer was no longer controlled by letrozole or other aromatase inhibitors, those who had already begun to receive chemotherapy, and premenopausal patients with metastatic disease.

A new therapeutic approach tested by a team from Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital (CIUSSS - EST, Montreal) and the University of Montreal gives promising results for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow currently considered incurable with conventional chemotherapy and for which the average life expectancy is about 6 or 7 years.

A phase I clinical trial conducted by investigators at the University of Texas San Antonio, showed that the combination of HCQ and the chemotherapy drug vorinostat in 27 patients with advanced solid tumors, including renal cell carcinoma and colon cancer, was clinically safe and inhibited autophagy.

A drug recently developed by Pfizer, crizotinib, targets ALK and is currently given to patients with ALK positive lung cancer when their cancer has worsened after initial chemotherapy.

The study, which will be published December 21 in the Journal of Cell Biology, suggests that the loss of these particular Numb proteins makes breast cancers more aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy, but points the way toward new therapeutic approaches that could improve patient outcome by preserving p53 levels.

The researchers then exposed cells from each of these lines to a panel of 31 different drug treatments — including 23 chemotherapy compounds approved by the FDA for breast and ovarian cancers, six targeted cancer drugs, and two common drug combinations.

Rather, cancer patients — whose eggs might be destroyed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy — will benefit the most if this still - experimental procedure becomes practical.

«Since 95 percent of cancer patients still get chemo, we realized we could make a major impact on cancer treatment by helping clinicians prescribe the right chemotherapy drug,» said Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD, a professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences in UCSF's Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine and senior author on the new study.

In mice with pancreatic cancer, three days of fasudil treatment prior to standard chemotherapy increased survival time by 47 per cent.