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Tests showed that combining mTOR inhibitors with chemotherapy was far more effective at treating leukemia than when the inhibitors or chemotherapy were used as stand - alone treatments.
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Although researchers don't yet know exactly why it was effective, Reynolds said preliminary data show that the modified diet also appears to make glioblastoma tumors more sensitive to treatment with radiation and chemotherapy.
A majority of patients (80 %) experience a relapse after their initial treatment with chemotherapy, therefore a more effective line of treatment is needed.
Frequent, low - dose chemotherapy regimens avoid this effect and may therefore be more effective at treating certain types of breast and pancreatic cancer, according to the murine study «Metronomic chemotherapy prevents therapy - induced stromal activation and induction of tumor - initiating cells,» which will be published online November 23 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.
«Novel compounds could yield more effective, less toxic cancer chemotherapy.»
«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.
Scientists in Korea have discovered that using antibacterial soap when hand - washing is no more effective than using plain soap, according to a paper published today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Our research provides evidence that immunotherapy may be more effective if given straight after chemotherapy,» Balkwill said.
«This target can be used to develop a drug that would hopefully, combined with chemotherapy, be more effective and less toxic.»
«The data show that treatment with pembrolizumab and chemotherapy together is more effective than chemotherapy alone,» says Gandhi.
The team's recent study in mice has found that the treatment reduced the mass of ovarian cancer tumors and was more effective at suppressing tumor growth than chemotherapy.
But in the meantime, it would help if we could identify who won't benefit from standard treatment, so we can spare them the debilitating effects of chemotherapy and get them into clinical trials for experimental therapies that might be more effective.»
UCLA scientists have unlocked an important mechanism that allows chemotherapy - carrying nanoparticles — extremely small objects between 1 and 100 nanometers (a billionth of a meter)-- to directly access pancreatic cancer tumors, thereby improving the ability to kill cancer cells and hence leading to more effective treatment outcome of the disease.
Because the vaccine causes the body to mount an immune response directed against a unique tumor, the therapy is much more effective than gene - targeted or more general chemotherapy alone.
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.
When the researchers removed FAK from blood vessels that grew in melanoma or lung cancer models, both chemotherapy and radiation therapies were far more effective in killing the tumors.
Rich and colleagues are now testing in mice whether combining Zika with traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy is more effective than either treatment by itself.
«Cannabinoids used in sequence with chemotherapy are a more effective treatment for cancer, say experts.»
«This is a promising treatment option that may prove not only to be more effective than chemotherapy alone prior to surgery, it may also be better than chemotherapy and standard radiation,» said lead study author Kimmen Quan, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Research from the University of Southampton has shown a drug, used in combination with chemotherapy to treat advanced colorectal cancer, is not effective in some settings, and indeed may result in more rapid cancer progression.
In such cases, the patient will be treated with a cocktail of chemotherapy instead of a more appropriately targeted treatment, which could be more effective and gentler on the patient.
A University of Rochester team found a way to make chemotherapy more effective, by stopping a cellular quality - control mechanism, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
The researchers say the findings provide an explanation for recent evidence showing that anti-angiogenesis drugs such as Avastin can be much more effective when combined with chemotherapy.
Our surgical oncologists provide the highest - quality cancer care to diagnose and remove tumors, debulk tumors to help make chemotherapy or radiation therapy more effective, and relieve symptoms or side effects of therapies.
WESTMINSTER, CO (October 10, 2012)-- Researchers may soon be able to add yet another item to the list of exercise's well - documented health benefits: A preliminary study suggests that when cancer survivors exercise for several weeks after they finish chemotherapy, their immune systems remodel themselves to become more effective, potentially fending off future incidences of cancer.
«In the end, it may turn out that patients will do best with standard chemotherapy, and this is the only way to know if that is true — or if molecularly tailored therapy identifies more effective options,» says Pishvaian.
Further, most cancer treatments are based on damaging cancer cells, so understanding why a chemotherapy works, and for which patients, should lead to more effective and less toxic treatments that will increase the cure rate and improve quality of life for cancer survivors.
Led by Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director of thoracic medical oncology, researchers from the KEYNOTE - 021 study demonstrated for the first time that combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor — in this case, pembrolizumab — with a platinum - doublet chemotherapy regimen might be more effective than chemotherapy alone as first - line treatment for advanced, non-squamous NSCLC.
Dissolving polymer wafers soaked with chemotherapy drugs were being implanted near tumors, but Stephan knew that T cells, which are capable of «squeezing throughout the entire tumor bed,» would be more effective than drugs, which can only penetrate a millimeter or so into tissue.
The findings signify that immunotherapy is more effective than chemotherapy in managing this type of cancer.
According to the University of Maryland, CoQ10 has the potential to interact with chemotherapy medications, blood pressure medications, blood - thinning medications, and beta - blockers — making them more or less effective.
Curiously, circadian rhythm disruption seems to make chemotherapy more effective.
This makes the chemotherapy more effective in these areas.
Fasting ketosis can have many benefits like effective treatment of epilepsy and obesity, a method to induce ketosis prior to chemotherapy and much more.
«These are dog - only, chemotherapy - type drugs that are potentially more effective for dogs and are less expensive for owners.»
Developed dosing calculations that will help provide more effective and safer chemotherapy dosing, determined more effective ways to administer chemotherapy and found evidence of how to overcome chemotherapy resistance
The goal of a surgical intervention in cancer treatment is to remove or reduce the primary cancerous tumor and allow either chemotherapy or radiation therapy to be more effective.
While we think the combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy is likely to be more effective than either on their own, it is possible to do one without the other.