One view is that cancer stem cells inhabit a «niche» that
prevents cancer drugs from reaching them.
Not exact matches
The Food and
Drug Administration is deliberately preventing the public from getting natural cures for cancer and other diseases because of pressure from drug compan
Drug Administration is deliberately
preventing the public from getting natural cures for
cancer and other diseases because of pressure from
drug compan
drug companies.
The National
Cancer Institute should be credited as the source and a link to this page included, e.g., «Metformin: Can a Diabetes
Drug Help
Prevent Cancer?
Domperidone has been banned in the United States for years because of fatal cardiac arrhythmias among
cancer patients who had been prescribed the
drug to
prevent nausea and vomiting.
With new tests to identify women who are at heightened risk of breast
cancer, new
drugs aimed at
preventing allergies, and the discovery of new genes that are key to the progression of conditions like Alzheimer's - to give just three examples - we are at the dawn of a whole new era:
The Houston Methodist researchers culled through thousands of existing
drugs to see if they could identify a compound that would
prevent cancer cells from spreading, or metastasizing.
To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to
prevent the elderly from falling (the complications of which are a leading cause of death), comparing assorted
drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific
cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.
Doxorubicin is a chemotherapy
drug used to treat a wide range of
cancers by
preventing cancer cells from replicating.
By taking a high - cost
drug with a low - fat meal — instead of on an empty stomach, as prescribed — prostate
cancer patients could decrease their daily dose,
prevent digestive issues and cut costs by 75 percent, according to a new study in the March 28, 2018, issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO).
GENES that protect yeast DNA from oxidising free radicals could one day lead to
drugs that
prevent cancer and ageing in people.
«Our findings underline the importance of RUNX2 in promoting metastasis and suggest that
drugs that inhibit its function would
prevent or treat prostate
cancer metastasis,» notes Dr. Gelman.
Published in the journal Molecular
Cancer Therapeutics, the study also found that use of a second inhibitor might improve the effectiveness of these
drugs by possibly
preventing resistance, and it recommends that clinical trials should be designed to include a second inhibitor.
These
drugs sensitize
cancer cells to alternative treatments and stave off progenitor cells that could
prevent cancer relapse.
«If you give patients immune cells to eradicate any remaining
cancer cells that might be present,» he says, «those immune cells would not be
prevented from doing their job by ongoing immune suppression
drugs that are being used in patients treated with conventional transplant approaches.»
«But in mice, it has an unbelievably wide range of effects that you'd never think a single
drug could possibly have, ranging from
preventing Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease to reducing
cancer.»
The
drug that they have developed appears to target
cancer stem cell activity, which suggests it will
prevent metastatic recurrence and be useful in combatting
drug resistance.»
Hence, a major goal of
cancer scientists has been to develop
drugs that
prevent Mdm2 from binding to p53, and to thereby activate p53 to kill the tumor cell.
Swedish researchers have started a clinical trial to assess whether a prostate
cancer drug could help
prevent pedophilic behavior — and they're counting on online donations to help finish it.
The findings may also lead to
drugs to
prevent rhabdomyosarcoma in children with a genetic predisposition to the
cancer, Hatley said.
Breast
cancer metastasis, the process by which
cancer spreads, may be
prevented through the new use of a class of
drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration.
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified that a key
drug target, CDK4 / 6, regulates a
cancer metastasis protein, SNAIL, and
drugs that inhibit CDK 4/6 could
prevent the spread of triple - negative breast
cancer.
However, this security system is so effective at protecting the brain that it
prevents many life - saving
drugs — all but some small molecules — from being able to treat
cancer and other diseases of the brain.
In animal and cell culture studies, the
drug inhibited growth both in estrogen - dependent breast
cancer cells and in cells that had developed resistance to the anti-estrogen tamoxifen and / or to the aromatase inhibitors, two of the most widely used types of
drugs to
prevent and treat estrogen - dependent breast
cancer.
Kontos adds that a greater role for aspirin would be welcomed by many at - risk patients, as current
drugs aimed at reducing risk, such as tamoxifen and raloxifene, have significant side effects and do not
prevent ER - negative breast
cancer.
«If you can find a treatment or a
drug that can block cadherin - 22, you could potentially
prevent cancer cells from moving, invading and metastasizing.»
Additional experiments using a combination of maraviroc and a
drug that blocks the VEGF protein suggest that the treatment duo could be an effective way to
prevent metastatic disease in human breast
cancer patients, according to the researchers.
The latest weapons in modern medicine's arsenal are two new vaccines that were recently approved by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration for
preventing this type of
cancer altogether.
The new technique, described in next month's Nature Medicine, could someday be used to
prevent organ rejection in people, as well as eliminate the need for lifelong immune - suppressing
drugs that make most transplant recipients susceptible to infections,
cancers, and nerve damage.
The finding warrants research into adding
drugs that could
prevent the
cancer from hijacking patients» repressive gene regulatory machinery, which might allow the original therapy to work long enough to eradicate the tumor, the researchers report in their National Institutes of Health - funded study, published in the current issue of Science Translational Medicine.
Dr. Oesterreich and her colleagues propose that future studies look at offering a combined therapy that, along with aromatase inhibitors, also introduces
drugs that modify the epigenome to
prevent or delay the
cancer from repressing
cancer - killing genes.
However, this security system is so effective at protecting the brain that it
prevents many life - saving
drugs from reaching the
cancer.
Abatacept, when added to the standard
drug regimen used to
prevent GvHD, reduced the occurrence of acute, grade III - IV GvHD from 32 to 3 percent in pediatric and adult patients who underwent mismatched unrelated donor stem cell transplants to treat advanced
cancer and other blood disorders.
could be a novel way to
prevent heart failure caused by
cancer drugs while also helping to kill the tumour itself.»
A class of compounds extracted from the Australian shrub Acacia victoriae could be part of the next wave of
cancer -
preventing drugs.
In studies of laboratory - grown human tumor cell lines, the
drug disrupted tumor cell division and
prevented growth of advanced
cancer cells.
«Scientists combine a peptide with a nano
cancer drug formulation to improve treatment effectiveness and
prevent metastasis in pancreatic
cancer.»
«We are excited and gratified by these remarkable results, which could lead to a new way to treat these
drug resistant metastases of ER + breast
cancers and / or
prevent their metastases in the first place.»
While initially effective at treating the disease, the
drugs fail to
prevent relapse in nearly all patients because of residual
cancer cells that escape therapy.
Conversely, a future
drug that
prevents PTPD2 from acting in
cancer cells could generate therapeutic results — by
preventing or reducing HER2 signaling.
This suggests that developing
drugs to strike out FAK in
cancer blood vessels may boost
cancer treatments and
prevent cancer from coming back.
«The more we learn about
cancer through these probes, the more opportunities we have to apply them — which means more chances to treat different
cancers, hopefully cure them, and at least
prevent their spread and maximize
drug delivery.»
Healthy women in the US and Canada are soon to begin a trial of the
drug tamoxifen to see whether it
prevents breast
cancer.
Torres notes that it will be important to screen for HCV because treatment with antiviral
drugs may possibly
prevent cancer from ever developing, as reported for liver
cancers and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
However, the researchers showed that a new antibody, called BI-1206, can effectively
prevent this
drug destruction process and enhance
cancer killing by binding to a molecule called FcγRIIB.
In the US, a similar trial to see if the
drug can
prevent breast
cancer has already started.
The results of this original study are highly relevant to other human diseases that dependent on genome instability, such as fungal infection or
cancer, and open new venues for anti-leishmanial
drug discovery using host - directed strategies that target the parasite's metabolic dependence on the host cell, thus
preventing the adaptive evolution of
drug resistant parasites.
The researchers say their method offers a new explanation for how to
prevent cancer cells from becoming treatment - resistant and how combinations therapies can be developed to overcome
drug resistance.
For four years British scientists have been planning a trial to find out whether the
drug might also help to
prevent breast
cancer in women who have a high risk of developing the disease.
A new era of lung
cancer therapy is close to dawning, using drugs that can prevent tumour cells from evading the immune system, experts have said at the 4th European Lung Cancer Con
cancer therapy is close to dawning, using
drugs that can
prevent tumour cells from evading the immune system, experts have said at the 4th European Lung
Cancer Con
Cancer Congress.
Groundbreaking findings, published online in the journal journal
Cancer Cell, show that resistance to many types of antibody drugs can be overcome by preventing cancer cells from «hiding» from immune
Cancer Cell, show that resistance to many types of antibody
drugs can be overcome by
preventing cancer cells from «hiding» from immune
cancer cells from «hiding» from immune cells.