News tagged with chemotherapy combination
Radiation helps cure Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but future cancer risk a concern
Modern treatment for early stage Hodgkin's lymphoma is highly effective, leaving most patients with no evidence of cancer. However, experts differ on the best approach: Is chemotherapy enough or does adding radiation therapy ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Erlotinib improves progression-free survival as first-line therapy in advanced lung cancer
For patients with advanced lung cancer whose tumors carry EGFR activating mutations, first-line treatment with erlotinib nearly tripled progression-free survival compared to a standard chemotherapy combination, show results ...
Oct 09, 2010 |
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Combination treatment regimen not effective against advanced melanoma
The combination of two different chemotherapies and a previously approved treatment for kidney and liver cancers is not effective against advanced melanoma, according to results disclosed in an oral presentation today at ...
Jun 05, 2010 |
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First trial of pemetrexed with radiation and chemo in lung cancer shows promising results
The first trial of an important new combination therapy of treatment with the chemotherapy drug pemetrexed concurrent with radiation in lung cancer has delivered promising results, French researchers report at the 2nd European ...
Apr 30, 2010 |
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Chemotherapy plus synthetic compound provides potent anti-tumor effect in pancreatic cancers
March 23, 2010 - Human pancreatic cancer cells dramatically regress when treated with chemotherapy in combination with a synthetic compound that mimics the action of a naturally occurring "death-promoting" protein found in ...
Mar 23, 2010 |
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New treatment combination proves safe for head and neck cancer patients
Patients undergoing treatment for advanced head and neck cancers may respond well to the addition of gefinitib to chemotherapy, according to a study sponsored by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and chaired by Ethan ...
May 31, 2009 |
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New treatment shows promise against recurrent gynecologic cancers
(BRONX, NY) - Recurrent and metastatic endometrial and ovarian cancers can be notoriously difficult to treat: They have spread to other organs and typically have developed resistance to chemotherapy; and patients already ...
Apr 21, 2009 |
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3-drug chemotherapy combination increases organ preservation in patients with larynx cancer
Patients with larynx cancer who received a three-drug combination of docetaxel, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil (TPF) during induction chemotherapy were more likely to retain larynx function than were patients treated with cisplatin ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Brain tumors: New therapy surprisingly successful
The combination of two drugs produces a critical improvement in the treatment of certain brain tumours. This has been demonstrated by researchers at Bonn University working in co-operation with German and Swiss colleagues ...
Mar 06, 2009 |
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