News tagged with drug cisplatin

'Copper pump's' potential benefit in cancer treatment

(Phys.org) -- A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has made new discoveries about a copper-transporting protein in the membranes of human cells that drug-discovery scientists can co-opt ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gold used as safe driver of cancer drug

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold nanoparticles can be used as delivery vehicles for platinum anticancer drugs, improving targeting and uptake into cells, according to research published in this month's edition of the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer drug cisplatin found to bind like glue in cellular RNA

An anti-cancer drug used extensively in chemotherapy binds pervasively to RNA -- up to 20-fold more than it does to DNA, a surprise finding that suggests new targeting approaches might be useful, according to University of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inhaled nanoparticles deliver potent anticancer cocktail to lung tumors and block resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ideal treatment for lung cancer would be one that could be inhaled deep into lung tissue where it would deliver tumor-killing agents that would then largely stay in the lungs, avoiding the toxicities that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles deliver one-two therapeutic punch to kill tumor cells

The standard approach to cancer therapy today is to mix and match chemotherapy drugs in order to attack tumors in multiple ways. Now, two separate teams of investigators have demonstrated that using nanoparticles to deliver ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles deliver combination chemotherapy directly to prostate cancer cells

In recent years, studies have shown that for many types of cancer, combination drug therapy is more effective than single drugs. However, it is usually difficult to get the right amount of each drug to the tumor. Now, researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough: With a chaperone, copper breaks through

(PhysOrg.com) -- Information on proteins is critical for understanding how cells function in health and disease. But while regular proteins are easy to extract and study, it is far more difficult to gather ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A more direct delivery of cancer drugs to tumors

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has demonstrated a better way to deliver ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New treatment to overpower drug resistance in ovarian cancer

Drug resistance is a major obstacle in curing ovarian cancer but new research from the Centenary Institute has discovered a treatment that kills ovarian cancer cells in a new way that can break the resistance mechanism. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lung cancer survival rates improved through use of individualized chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the best broad defense against cancer recurrence after surgical resection. However, it is difficult to predict which patients will benefit from which regimen of anticancer drugs, if at all. Building on existing ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0