Sentences with phrase «whether traditional chemotherapy»

Drug therapy, whether traditional chemotherapy, targeted therapies or immunotherapy are used routinely in cats and dogs with cancer.

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New York, Wall Street Journal — Genomic Health Inc. has struck a deal to commercialize a new blood test that can help advanced prostate cancer patients decide whether to try costly new - generation drugs or rely on much cheaper traditional chemotherapy to improve their chances for survival.

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.

He said traditional drugs to treat tapeworm infection — which target the whole organism at the larval stage - might not have been effective against tapeworm cancer cells, and it's also unclear whether chemotherapy for normal human cancer cells could have helped shrink the tumors.