Sentences with phrase «from traditional chemotherapy»

Targeted therapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs, however, it is different from traditional chemotherapy.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The side effects of immunotherapy are usually quite different from those of traditional cancer drugs used in therapies such as chemotherapy.

The researchers believe this approach can potentially be used to link hundreds of building blocks to create multidrug - carrying nanoparticles, and pave the way for entirely new types of cancer treatments, free from the damaging side effects that accompany traditional chemotherapy.

The treatment In the traditional form of the treatment, during the first five weeks, the entire affected breast is usually treated in case any cancerous cells were left behind from surgery and / or chemotherapy.