The only randomized
study of adjuvant chemotherapy in mucosal melanoma demonstrated significantly increased relapse - free and overall survival in patients receiving temozolomide and cisplatin, as compared with interferon alfa - 2b or observation.
Not exact matches
These
studies will investigate whether Src kinase inhibitors are best used in the
adjuvant setting post-surgery or after
chemotherapy to prevent the formation
of local and distant disease recurrence.
Final results
of a randomised phase III
study on
adjuvant chemotherapy with 5 FU and levamisol in colon and rectum cancer stage II and III by the Norwegian Gastrointestinal Cancer Group.
«This
study demonstrates that Prosigna can reliably identify early stage breast cancer patients who have a low risk -
of disease recurrence at 10 years, including a substantial proportion
of patients with node - positive disease for whom the risk / benefit derived for
adjuvant chemotherapy would be at best neutral,» said Dr. Alessandra Cesano, chief medical officer
of NanoString Technologies.
A 2015 article in the International Journal
of Biochemistry and Cell Biology sums up the findings
of multiple
studies on ketogenic diets and cancer with the following: «there is increasing evidence that the ketogenic diet may also be beneficial as an
adjuvant cancer therapy by potentiating the antitumor effect
of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.»