News tagged with leucovorin
New treatments offer better survival and fresh challenges in colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world. Fortunately physicians today have an abundance of drug therapies available to improve survival length for more advanced cancer ...
Aug 21, 2009 |
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After resection, common treatment of pancreatic cancer as effective as chemotherapy drug dose
Use of gemcitabine, a drug that can be effective in treating advanced and resected pancreatic cancer, did not result in improved overall survival after pancreatic cancer resection (surgical removal) compared to patients who ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Costly cancer drugs are worth it, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- The cost for chemotherapy medications to treat colorectal cancer for six months has jumped 2,600 percent from 1993 to 2005. But such rising costs are worth the price, asserts a new report from Cornell, when ...
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Genetic testing may be valuable in treating colorectal cancer
For the 29,000 patients in the United States with metastatic colorectal cancer, chemotherapy with irinotecan is a standard treatment that has been shown to improve survival. But for more than one in 10 of these patients, ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Cost of treating colorectal cancer can vary by thousands per patient
The cost of treating colorectal cancer varies widely, with newer, life-extending therapies sometimes costing tens of thousands of dollars more than older agents, according to a study led by a team of researchers in the Duke ...
Nov 08, 2008 |
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