CHFR silencing or microsatellite instability is associated with increased antitumor activity of docetaxel or
gemcitabine in colorectal cancer.
Aerosolized
gemcitabine in patients with carcinoma of the lung: feasibility and safety study.
These findings support the use of
gemcitabine in this setting,» the authors conclude.
Not exact matches
Certain types of bacteria make an enzyme that inactivates the drug
gemcitabine, researchers report
in the Sept. 15 Science.
In a recent study, working with a team of researchers, Danino demonstrated that bacteria in pancreatic tumors degrade a chemotherapy drug — Gemcitabine — most commonly used to treat patients who have pancreatic cance
In a recent study, working with a team of researchers, Danino demonstrated that bacteria
in pancreatic tumors degrade a chemotherapy drug — Gemcitabine — most commonly used to treat patients who have pancreatic cance
in pancreatic tumors degrade a chemotherapy drug —
Gemcitabine — most commonly used to treat patients who have pancreatic cancer.
Findings were presented at the WCLC are based on the updated results of 12 lung cancer patients enrolled
in the clinical trial with pembro and irinotecan or
gemcitabine with or without vinorelbine or docetaxel.
Potential role of intratumor bacteria
in mediating tumor resistance to the chemotherapeutic drug
gemcitabine.
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.
That allowed tumor cells to survive
gemcitabine treatment
in lab dishes and mouse studies, Leore Geller of the Weizmann Institute of Science
in Rehovot, Israel, and colleagues discovered.
The current standard of care for advanced pancreatic cancer — a combination of nab - paclitaxel and
gemcitabine — was developed by TGen and the HonorHealth Research Institute, and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
in 2013.
The research team evaluated the combination of the biologic therapy brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris), a monoclonal antibody - drug conjugate, with the chemotherapy drug
gemcitabine (Gemzar)
in 42 pediatric and young - adult patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, the most common cancer
in young people ages 15 to 29.
The addition of necitumumab to
gemcitabine and cisplatin chemotherapy improved overall survival and progression free survival by 21 % and 16 %, respectively, as compared to chemotherapy alone
in patients whose tumours expressed the EGFR protein.
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, Switzerland.
By contrast, a signal of tumor activity increased sixty-fold
in mice treated with the widely used chemotherapy drug
gemcitabine.
The findings suggest that therapies combining these microRNAs and
gemcitabine could improve our ability to treat pancreatic cancer, and measurement of microRNA levels could also provide a guide to the prognosis
in such cases.
The study used a well - known line of pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC - 1)
in the laboratory and assessed how well this grew when treated with either the chemotherapy drug
gemcitabine or different levels of commercially available chokeberry extract alone, and when treated with a combination of
gemcitabine and chokeberry extract.
Gemcitabine is used on bladder, pancreas and ovary cancer, whilst DON has been tested
in clinical trials.
In the trial one group of patients received
gemcitabine chemotherapy through a drip, as well as a course of IMM - 101 injections.
Researchers used the mice to show that pemetrexed and
gemcitabine worked against human group 3 tumors and that the drugs could be used
in combination with existing chemotherapy agents to boost treatment effectiveness without undue risk.
In further experiments, Straussman showed that antibiotics stopped bacteria with the long form from destroying
gemcitabine (Science, doi.org/cc5n).
No safety concerns were identified
in previous studies of pemetrexed and
gemcitabine for treatment
in children with other cancers.
Also, there was no significant difference
in overall survival with
gemcitabine (13.6 months) compared with
gemcitabine plus erlotinib (11.9 months).
Based on results from this and previous studies, pemetrexed and
gemcitabine were included
in a St. Jude - led multicenter clinical trial of children and adolescents newly diagnosed with medulloblastoma.
Researchers demonstrated that the drugs pemetrexed and
gemcitabine killed cells from mouse and human brain tumors, called group 3 medulloblastoma, growing
in the laboratory.
Helmut Oettle, M.D., Ph.D., of the Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Germany, and colleagues conducted follow - up of a randomized trial that previously reported improvement
in disease - free survival with adjuvant (
in addition to surgery)
gemcitabine therapy to determine if this treatment improved overall survival.
In a study appearing in the May 3 issue of JAMA, Pascal Hammel, M.D., of Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France and colleagues assessed whether chemoradiotherapy improves overall survival of patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer controlled after 4 months of gemcitabine - based induction chemotherapy, and assessed the effect of erlotinib on surviva
In a study appearing
in the May 3 issue of JAMA, Pascal Hammel, M.D., of Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France and colleagues assessed whether chemoradiotherapy improves overall survival of patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer controlled after 4 months of gemcitabine - based induction chemotherapy, and assessed the effect of erlotinib on surviva
in the May 3 issue of JAMA, Pascal Hammel, M.D., of Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France and colleagues assessed whether chemoradiotherapy improves overall survival of patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer controlled after 4 months of
gemcitabine - based induction chemotherapy, and assessed the effect of erlotinib on survival.
The researchers found a statistically significant difference
in overall survival between the study groups, with a median of 22.8 months
in the
gemcitabine group compared with 20.2 months
in the observation group.
BMS - 754807, a Small - Molecule Inhibitor of Insulin - like Growth Factor - 1 Receptor / Insulin Receptor, Enhances
Gemcitabine Response
in Pancreatic Cancer.
Erlotinib plus
gemcitabine compared with
gemcitabine alone
in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer: a phase III trial of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group.
Comparative benefits of Nab - paclitaxel over
gemcitabine or polysorbate - based docetaxel
in experimental pancreatic cancer.
Increased Survival
in Pancreatic Cancer with nab - Paclitaxel plus
Gemcitabine
This result therefore indicates that combined rituximab and
gemcitabine could be an alternative approach
in patients with posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease.
In - vivo treatments of xenografted tumors showed significant tumor growth inhibition induced either by rituximab or
gemcitabine alone and an impressive efficacy of combined treatment.
The targeted anti-cancer drug erlotinib (Tarceva ®) has also demonstrated a small improvement
in advanced pancreatic cancer survival when used
in combination with
gemcitabine.
A low, non-genotoxic, dose (about 1 nM) of ActD has been shown to induce a reversible cytostatic effect
in normal proliferating dermal fibroblasts and protect them from the aneuploidy induced by the aurora kinase inhibitor VX - 680 and the toxic effects of
gemcitabine [46, 47].
This property of quizartinib conferred marked protection to MPPs
in mice receiving fluorouracil or
gemcitabine.
In 2013, Abraxane (nanoparticle albumin — bound formulation of paclitaxel) was approved in combination with gemcitabine for metastatic pancreatic cance
In 2013, Abraxane (nanoparticle albumin — bound formulation of paclitaxel) was approved
in combination with gemcitabine for metastatic pancreatic cance
in combination with
gemcitabine for metastatic pancreatic cancer.
In fact, they stressed the fact of quercetin's effectiveness as a single agent against pancreatic cancer tumors, declaring: «Quercetin alone inhibited tumor growth to such an extent that it could not be further enhanced by the addition of
gemcitabine.»
Prior to joining Elanco, McGraw practiced as an
in - house patent counsel for Eli Lilly and Company
in Indianapolis for over 14 years, where she gained experience
in global patent portfolio and exclusivity creation and managed the international patent litigation associated with
gemcitabine.