The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Roche's Tecentriq as adjuvant treatment following surgery and platinum-based chemotherapy, for adults with Stage II-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer, as determined by an FDA-approved ...
Oct 18, 2021
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It's one of the most heartbreaking things Adam Green, MD, sees as a pediatric oncologist: children who beat their cancer, only to see an incurable brain tumor arise five years later.
Sep 28, 2021
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Harmful side effects from a common chemotherapy drug could be the result of a single mutation, according to a study published in Cell Stem Cell.
Sep 27, 2021
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Researchers at SMU have found a way to make chemotherapy drugs more lethal to HPV-infected cervical cancer cells without collateral damage to normal cells, a study suggests.
Aug 12, 2021
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Chemotherapy has helped make acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) one of the most survivable childhood cancers. Now, researchers working in the U.S., Germany and China have shown how chemotherapy drugs called thiopurines can ...
Jul 23, 2021
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A phase II study led by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that treatment with atezolizumab and bevacizumab was well-tolerated and resulted in a 40% objective response rate in patients ...
Jul 14, 2021
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From amoebas to zebras, all living things evolve. They change over time as pressures from the environment cause individuals with certain traits to become more common in a population while those with other traits become less ...
Jun 23, 2021
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A drug currently used to prevent organ rejection in transplants could also reduce chemotherapy resistance in glioblastoma, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Brain.
Jun 17, 2021
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In the human gut, good bacteria make great neighbors.
May 26, 2021
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Chemotherapy is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cancer cells in the body. It is a systemic treatment where drugs travel throughout the body and destroy cancer cells that have spread (metastasized) ...
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