More than half of all cancer patients who receive chemotherapy are treated with drugs containing platinum. These drugs are very powerful, but like many other chemotherapy agents, they can have side effects and may provoke ...
Apr 3, 2014
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(HealthDay) -- For patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who undergo neoadjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy, tissue platinum concentrations correlate positively with improved outcome, according to a study published ...
Aug 14, 2012
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(Medical Xpress) -- Oxaliplatin, a platinum-based anticancer drug that’s made enormous headway in recent years against colorectal cancer, appears to cause nerve damage that may be permanent and worsens even months after ...
Sep 28, 2011
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Genentech's Alecensa (alectinib) as adjuvant treatment following tumor resection in patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Apr 23, 2024
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A study published in the journal Science Bulletin was led by Yi-Long Wu (Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Chinese Thoracic Oncology Group (CTONG)).
Mar 5, 2024
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A recent clinical trial showed that the drug combination of cemiplimab plus platinum chemotherapy can prolong survival in patients with advanced lung cancer when compared with placebo plus platinum chemotherapy. Now an analysis ...
May 8, 2023
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Immunotherapy with pembrolizumab improves survival in patients with head and neck cancer that has recurred or metastasised, according to late-breaking results from the KEYNOTE-048 study reported at the ESMO 2018 Congress ...
Oct 22, 2018
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The presence in advanced breast cancer of mutational signatures characteristic of homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) was associated with improved clinical outcomes to treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy.
Dec 19, 2017
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Ramucirumab plus docetaxel improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who have progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy, according to late-breaking results from the phase ...
Sep 11, 2017
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Mature results from the KEYNOTE-045 trial to be presented today at the ESMO 2017 Congress in Madrid (1) have confirmed significantly longer survival in patients with advanced urothelial cancer who receive the checkpoint inhibitor ...
Sep 11, 2017
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