Immunotherapy used with chemotherapy or on its own is a better first-line treatment for people with head and neck cancer that has returned than standard aggressive chemotherapy, new clinical trial results show.
Jun 4, 2019
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After 40 years of treating metastatic bladder cancer with chemotherapy as a primary treatment, scientists now present a new approach using immunotherapy combinations. The results of two studies have been presented at the ...
Nov 16, 2023
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An accurate tool that is readily available could be used to predict whether frail patients are likely to survive intensive cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, according to researchers from the University of Surrey.
Jun 26, 2023
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Rectal cancer patients who use a new combination of the chemotherapy, Capecitabine, together with five weeks of radiation (50 Gy) before surgery have an 88 percent chance of surviving the cancer three years after treatment, ...
Sep 26, 2011
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Scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding why some cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapy.
Oct 28, 2016
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Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated that cancer of the appendix is different than colon cancer, a distinction that could lead to more effective treatments for both diseases.
Mar 7, 2012
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A new optical imaging system developed at Columbia University uses red and near-infrared light to identify breast cancer patients who will respond to chemotherapy. The imaging system may be able to predict response to chemotherapy ...
Feb 12, 2018
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For patients with metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma whose disease has progressed following standard chemotherapy, treatment with pazopanib (a drug that targets the growth of new cancer-related blood vessels) nearly tripled progression-free ...
May 15, 2012
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Regional variation in chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer across Scotland has reduced significantly over the past 15 years, according to a new study. The findings suggest that there are now limited inequalities in treatment ...
Dec 17, 2021
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Scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered that a common drug given to arthritis sufferers could also help to treat patients with blood cancers.
Jul 6, 2015
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