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Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiotherapy Increases Survival For Patients With Advanced Head And Neck Cancer

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:17:02 +0100

Giving chemotherapy at the same time as radiotherapy to patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer (who have not had surgery) more than doubles their event-free survival to 2.2 years, compared with 1.0 years with radiotherapy alone.

Patients With Advanced Head And Neck Cancer: Adding Chemotherapy To Radiotherapy Increases Survival

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:20:27 +0100

An article published Online First in The Lancet Oncology reports that giving chemotherapy at the same time as radiotherapy to patients who have not had surgery with locally advanced head and neck cancer more than doubles their event-free survival to 2.2 years. This compares with 1.0 years with radiotherapy alone.

Bcl-2 inhibitor may enhance chemotherapy treatment in patients with prostate cancer (News-Medical-Net)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:15:47 +0100

In trying to better predict a patient's response to chemotherapy for cancer treatment, a team of investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has identified a way to better manipulate a gene product to cause cancer cells to die.

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Vitamin E prevents side effects of chemotherapy.

Thirty-one cancer patients receiving six courses of cisplatin, paclitaxel, or both of these drugs were randomly assigned to receive 600 IU/day of vitamin E or no vitamin E during chemotherapy. Neurotoxicity occurred in 25% of the patients in the vitamin E group and in 73.3% of those ...

Hartson set for chemotherapy; CANCER: Ex-Baggies star is out of critical care.

Byline: Chris Henwood EX-WEST Bromwich Albion striker John Hartson is out of critical care today and due to begin chemotherapy in his battle with testicular cancer. The 34-year-old former Wales international was admitted to hospital in his home town of Swansea last month where he underwent ...

IV med may fight chemotherapy-resistant cancers.

IV med may fight chemotherapy-resistant cancers CT-2584, a novel small-molecule, anti-cancer, anti-antigenic drug from Seattle-based Cell Therapeutics, has completed a Phase I clinical trial with promising results. The drug is administered intravenously over six hours for three consecutive days, ...

Brostallicin Trial Data Demonstrates Encouraging Anti-tumor Activity in Patients With Chemotherapy-Resistant Cancers.

Targeting tumor's vulnerability yields durable responses in Phase I/II Trial SEATTLE, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Systems Medicine, LLC , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cell Therapeutics, Inc. , announced that cumulative preliminary results of a phase I trial ...

Chemotherapy for cancer: how to manage your side effects.

More than half of all people diagnosed with cancer receive chemotherapy, a treatment that kills cancer cells but also damages many healthy cells. Chemotherapy is well known for producing unpleasant side effects. Fortunately, both medical and nonmedical interventions can help cancer patients get ...

U.S. researchers examining whether patients getting enough chemotherapy for various cancers

LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer AP Worldstream 05-31-2004 Dateline: WASHINGTON It's a worrisome finding: About a third of patients with potentially curable breast cancer in the United States aren't getting full-strength doses of chemotherapy because of side effects or other problems. Now ...

UC-Berkeley biologist offers explanation for chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells

Bernice Ng University Wire 02-01-2001 (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. - A University of California at Berkeley biologist's explanation for why cancer cells become immune to chemotherapy treatment has raised speculation that researchers may have to seriously reconsider the widely held ...

POTPOURRI; Chemotherapy for cancer has poisonous side effects

Sibal, Meg Filipino Reporter 10-02-2003 IN the medical world, cancer "cure" means that evidence of the disease is no longer found in the body. This "cancer-free" condition can sometimes occur when the malignancy is diagnosed early and treated aggressively with surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or a ...

Anti-Angiogenesis Agent To Be Tested With Chemotherapy.

2001 MAY 17 - - The University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Puget Sound Oncology Consortium will lead a Phase II ovarian cancer clinical trial in the U.S. evaluating the safety and effectiveness of combining standard initial chemotherapy (paditaxe] ...

Wake Forest Discovery of Heated Chemotherapy for Advanced Cancers Goes to Market.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., March 16 /PRNewswire/ - For a decade, investigators at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have been developing heated chemotherapy - in conjunction with surgery - as a method to treat certain types of advanced abdominal cancers. Through technology transfer, that ...

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