Nanotax works by flipping the script on
how paclitaxel is administered to patients and with how it's formulated, potentially making it a more effective and better tolerated treatment for ovarian and other abdominal cancers.
Not exact matches
«It does make it easier to get to patients sooner since
paclitaxel is already on the market and we know a lot about
how it works.»
Each of the four compounds was then tested in the lab to see
how it would affect a line of prostate cancer cells relatively sensitive to the chemotherapeutic
Paclitaxel, commonly used to treat prostate cancer patients.
Of note, the current study is part of a recent surge in NYU Langone findings on pancreatic cancer, including studies on
how first - responder cells turn off the immune response, the role of the drug nab -
paclitaxel in tumor biology, cancer cells» unique fuel sources, and
how immune cell infighting drives the disease.
To uncover
how groups of cancer cells achieve functional diversity (through RNA) to survive chemotherapy, Lopez - Diaz dosed dishes of human pre-cancer and metastatic breast cancer cells with the cancer drug
paclitaxel for a week and then removed the drug for a few weeks, mimicking the treatment cycle for a cancer patient.