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Original Source: Clinical Study of Chemoradiation Followed by VIPD in Nasal Natural Killer (NK)/T-cell Lymphoma
Nasal NK/T-cell lymphoma is a peculiar clinico-pathologic subtype of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Although most patients present with stage I/II, only 30-60% of the patients remain disease-free. The efficacy of the conventional anthracycline-based chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone [CHOPP]) has been unsatisfactory. The optimal treatment of localized NK/T-cell lymphoma has not been defined yet. The optimal dose, sequence, and multi-modality t...
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Multimodality and Adjuvant Chemotherapy
Breast cancer in the UK is diagnosed in nearly 46,000 people each year, with just over 12,000 dying from breast cancer each year in he UK. There are several risk factors for developing b...
Kadcyla (ado-trastuzumab emtansine)
Kadcyla™ (ado-trastuzumab emtansine or T-DM1) for the treatment of people with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (mBC) who have received prior treatment with Herceptin® (trastuzumab)...
Acute myelocytic leukemia is a life-threatening disease in which the neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil, and monocyte precursors become cancerous and rapidly replace normal cells in the bone marrow....
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Bartholomew’s BioNotes: Using Gene Therapy to Fortify yourself against chemotherapy
One of the vexing aspects of chemotherapy is that doctors can sometimes not be able to give enough of the chemotherapy drug or for as long a duration as would be preferred due to the toxicities often...
Chemotherapy's Side Effects May Be Dramatically Reduced In The Future
Researchers in Leuven (VIB/KU Leuven) have confirmed their hypothesis that normalizing blood vessels by blocking oxygen sensor PHD2 would make chemotherapy more effective. They also demonstrated for t...
Chemotherapy's Effectiveness May Be Predicted By Breast MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an indication of a breast tumor's response to pre-surgical chemotherapy significantly earlier than possible through clinical examination, according to a new s...
UCSF study finds breast MRI helps predict chemotherapy's effectiveness
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an indication of a breast tumor's response to pre-surgical chemotherapy significantly earlier than possible through clinical examination, according to a new s...
Disease-free and overall survival improved with postsurgical chemotherapy. Patients with ER-negative breast cancers were most responsive to treatment. SAN ANTONIO — Chemotherapy after surgery, o...
[News] 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting
Data from the AURELIA trial, presented by Eric Pujade-Lauraine (Paris, France) and colleagues, showed that bevacizumab plus chemotherapy is beneficial to patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cance...
The Mechanisms Of Drug Resistance To Dual-Agent Chemotherapy In Ovarian Cancer
More than half of all patients with ovarian cancer experience recurrent disease and will eventually fail to respond to chemotherapy. The failure of chemotherapy is usually due to the development of re...
Combination of chemotherapy and selumetinib shows promise against NSCLC
A new study by an international team of investigators led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists is the first to demonstrate that chemotherapy and a new, targeted therapy work better in combinatio...
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Second-line chemotherapy in patients with primary unknown cancer.
PURPOSE: There are few existing reports on the efficacy of second-line chemotherapy in patients with cancer of unknown primary site (CUP). The aim of this study was to identify characteristics of CUP...
BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS: To elucidate the survival benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy by decreasing incidence or by delaying time of tumor recurrence, we reported the long-term results of a nonrandomized...
Delayed gastric emptying symptoms are often reported after chemotherapy. This study aims to characterise the effects of chemotherapy on gastric neuro-muscular function. Patients undergoing elective su...
Chemotherapy-associated recurrent pneumothoraces in lymphangioleiomyomatosis.
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis is a rare cause of pneumothorax in women. We present the case of a 48-year-old woman with lymphangioleiomyomatosis, who had never had a pneumothorax prior to commencing chemot...
Survival in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has substantially improved. Long-term chemotherapy with epidermal growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) and other a...
