Mucositis resulting
from cancer chemotherapy is a serious disorder of the alimentary tract.
Not exact matches
Cancer patients, especially those on
chemotherapy, can really benefit
from a personal chef who knows how to make food that's especially appealing when
chemotherapy drugs make food unappealing but when it is important to maintain nutrition for strength and the best health possible.
Immunotherapy differs
from more traditional
cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body),
chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.
«The charities or their telemarketers allegedly falsely told donors that their contributions would be used to provide pain medication to children suffering
from cancer, to transport patients to
chemotherapy appointments, and to pay for hospice care for dying patients.
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.
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.
Pagano, age 51, is expected to spend the next 6 - 8 weeks at the Indiana University Simon
Cancer Center receiving and recovering
from an initial round of
chemotherapy, and then is likely to continue treatment for up to several years to hopefully achieve and maintain remission.
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from Breast
Cancer Care on research from the University of Frankfurt presented to the European Breast Cancer Conference which suggests that pregnant women can receive chemotherapy for breast cancer without endangering the health of their b
Cancer Care on research
from the University of Frankfurt presented to the European Breast
Cancer Conference which suggests that pregnant women can receive chemotherapy for breast cancer without endangering the health of their b
Cancer Conference which suggests that pregnant women can receive
chemotherapy for breast
cancer without endangering the health of their b
cancer without endangering the health of their babies.
Previous results
from the trial have already changed clinical practice — data released last year has led to docetaxel
chemotherapy now being part of the standard of care for many men with prostate
cancer.
To achieve this goal, the
cancer field is moving away
from chemotherapy and towards a combination of immunotherapy and targeted therapy, an approach that is more potent and less toxic.
Radiation and
chemotherapies that save young women
from cancer can leave them infertile.
A patients» tumors
from cholangiocarcinoma, a rare liver
cancer that typically fails
chemotherapy, shrunk significantly after treatment with FGFR inhibitors, which were prescribed based on results of next generation sequencing.
Based on the evolutionary idea that targeted epigenetic stochasticity can improve adaptation, these observations could explain how
cancer cells are good at evading
chemotherapy treatments and spreading
from one part of the body to another, he adds.
Doxorubicin is a
chemotherapy drug used to treat a wide range of
cancers by preventing
cancer cells
from replicating.
The experimental drug nintedanib, combined with standard
chemotherapy with paclitaxel, causes a total remission of tumours in 50 % of patients suffering
from early HER - 2 - negative breast
cancer, the most common type of breast
cancer.
It also moves the
cancer cells away
from the place where they were growing which could allow them to be removed through traditional
cancer treatments such as radiotherapy,
chemotherapy or surgery.
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.
Lead researcher Professor Hemant Kocher
from QMUL's Barts
Cancer Institute said: «This is the first time that we have combined vitamin A with chemotherapy for pancreatic c
Cancer Institute said: «This is the first time that we have combined vitamin A with
chemotherapy for pancreatic
cancercancer.
The researchers isolated bacteria
from the tumors of pancreatic
cancer patients and tested how they affect the sensitivity of pancreatic
cancer cells to gemcitabine, a
chemotherapy drug.
«NIR light may identify breast
cancer patients who will benefit most
from chemotherapy.»
However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists
from the German
Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average popul
Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death
from heart disease in breast
cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average popul
cancer patients following radiotherapy or
chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.
A third team,
from Johns Hopkins University, has created a molecular switch that activates
chemotherapy drugs only within
cancer cells.
«However, a number of clinical trials have suggested that both
chemotherapy and radiotherapy are associated with the risk of suffering heart disease as a consequence of treatment,» says Hermann Brenner
from the German
Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg.
These are people who may not be able to afford to take time off
from their jobs to get recommended
cancer care, including
chemotherapy,» Veenstra adds.
It's a mixture of rituximab (which helps immune system keep
cancer cells
from growing) and several
chemotherapy drugs (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) that kill the
cancer cells themselves.
«Blocking the damage response in normal cells that have been bathed in
chemotherapy could be instrumental in keeping errant or dormant
cancer cells
from starting down the path to proliferation,» he said.
«Although we found that
chemotherapy activated the T cells, the levels of the protein PD - L1 [to which the immune checkpoint molecule PD - 1 binds to disable T cells and prevent them
from recognizing and destroying the
cancer cells] remained the same or increased.
The initial experiments made use of
cancer cells that Quiñones - Hinojosa and his team removed
from willing patients and grew in the laboratory until they formed little spheres of cells, termed oncospheres, likely to be the most resistant to
chemotherapy and radiation, and capable of creating new tumors.
PARP inhibitors prevent
cancer cells
from repairing themselves after experiencing DNA damage (for example
from chemotherapy or radiation).
With our colleagues
from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, we found that an increased level of this protein is associated with aggressive forms of ovarian
cancer that are more likely to be resistant to
chemotherapy and lead to death.»
Semenza says previous studies have shown that resistance to
chemotherapy arises
from the hardy nature of
cancer stem cells, which are often found in the centers of tumors, where oxygen levels are quite low.
TRINOVA - 1 was a randomized prospective phase III clinical trial that added trebananib or placebo to standard
chemotherapy (weekly paclitaxel) among 919 women with recurrent ovarian
cancer patient
from 179 sites in 32 countries.
Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of
cancer stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked metastasis of
cancer cells
from the primary tumor to the lungs, decreased the duration of
chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after
chemotherapy was stopped that the mice remained tumor - free.
«Scientists identify chain reaction that shields breast
cancer stem cells
from chemotherapy.»
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.
Prior studies that examined the impact of
cancer treatment decisions on employment showed that patients who received
chemotherapy were most likely to experience longer disruptions in or loss of employment, but changes in breast
cancer management in recent years have shifted recommendations away
from chemotherapy for early stage breast
cancer.
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.
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.
The researchers then compared tumor cells isolated
from multiple different breast
cancer patients and found that cells expressing lower amounts of Numb - 1 and -2 were more resistant to the
chemotherapy agent cisplatin.
Patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressing advanced squamous non-small-cell lung
cancer benefit most from necitumumab added to gemcitabine and cisplatin chemotherapy, according to a subgroup analysis from the SQUIRE trial presented today at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switze
cancer benefit most
from necitumumab added to gemcitabine and cisplatin
chemotherapy, according to a subgroup analysis
from the SQUIRE trial presented today at the European Lung
Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switze
Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Patients with metastatic colorectal
cancer (mCRC) that are mutation - free in the KRAS, NRAS, BRAF and PIK3CA genes showed significant benefit from continuing anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy beyond progression following first - line chemotherapy and an anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody, according to study results (1) presented today at the ESMO 17th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer in Barcelona,
cancer (mCRC) that are mutation - free in the KRAS, NRAS, BRAF and PIK3CA genes showed significant benefit
from continuing anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy beyond progression following first - line
chemotherapy and an anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody, according to study results (1) presented today at the ESMO 17th World Congress on Gastrointestinal
Cancer in Barcelona,
Cancer in Barcelona, Spain.
The authors said their results, which they have made publicly available, constitute an invaluable resource to help clinicians predict which
chemotherapies will be most effective against tumor cells with particular genetic mutations, and how to rationally combine therapies to prevent
cancers from developing resistance.
In elderly
cancer patients like my father and aunt, who suffer
from a variety of chronic health problems, physicians often modify standard treatment regimens — perhaps using two
chemotherapy drugs instead of three or lowering standard dosages — in the hope that the revised treatment will work well enough.
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.
As part of the new study, the researchers showed that intact axons without Phr1 were protected
from the damage caused by vincristine, a
chemotherapy drug used to treat leukemia, neuroblastoma, Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, among other
cancers.
More than 80 percent of women with advanced stage high - grade serous ovarian
cancer experience relapses even after repeated surgeries and multiple rounds of
chemotherapy, and this effective new approach to treat the disease could be a major step forward in preventing
cancer from returning.
As part of a second trial, Swanton's lab will also study what happens to tumors under the selective pressure of various types of
cancer therapies,
from traditional
chemotherapy to targeted drugs.
The doctors» plan was to kill off Brown's
cancer - producing bone marrow cells with intensive
chemotherapy and replace them with stem cells
from the bone marrow of a healthy donor.
Over the past two decades, the field has started to move
from chemotherapy and radiation to targeted monoclonal antibodies and, now, to therapies that activate a patient's own immune system to fight
cancer.