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Cancer chemotherapy and beyond


Patient Story: Riding Beyond Pancreatic Cancer

Dr. Manji recommended chemotherapy, which I started in November 2018 and completed in April 2019. Other lesions in the upper right lung were ...

Full article: Novel therapeutic strategies in pancreatic cancer

Compared to other cancers, the evolution in standard therapeutic options has been stagnant and polychemotherapy regimens (with well-known ...

Living Beyond Cancer Podcast

The Living Beyond Cancer podcast is for people currently receiving cancer treatment, those who have completed cancer treatment, and their caregivers.

Driving Impact Beyond Blood Cancers

Many pivotal discoveries have originated from LLS-funded research, and these game changing insights and treatment approaches are now helping patients with other ...

Chemotherapy: How It Works and How You'll Feel - WebMD

Chemotherapy is a type of treatment with drugs that kill cancer cells. It is a strong and effective treatment but can also cause serious side effects.

Bladder Cancer: Can We Move Beyond Chemotherapy?

The current paradigm of combining novel agents with cytotoxic chemotherapy without any understanding of the underlying biology of urothelial cancer has limited ...

ML18147 study KRAS subgroup findings - Annals of Oncology

Bevacizumab plus chemotherapy continued beyond first progression in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer previously treated with bevacizumab plus ...

After chemotherapy, immune system recovery may be slower than ...

Now, new research suggests that the effects of chemotherapy can compromise part of the immune system for up to nine months after treatment, ...

Chemotherapy beyond second-line in advanced gastric cancer

Fortunately, in a second-line setting, we now have evidence that chemotherapy provides substantial improvement in overall survival (OS) and quality of life (QOL)[ ...

Nanotechnology Cancer Therapy and Treatment - NCI

... treatment. Research on nanotechnology cancer therapy goes beyond drug delivery, extending to the creation of new therapeutics available only ...

AC-T Chemotherapy Regimen | Living Beyond Breast Cancer

AC-T (doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide followed by paclitaxel), also called AC-T and AC-Taxol, is a chemotherapy combination treatment used to treat breast ...

What Is Metastasis? (Stage IV, Metastatic or Secondary Cancer)

Metastasis is when cancer spreads beyond the place where it started to other areas of your body. Nearly all cancers have the potential to metastasize.

What Is Stage 4 Cancer and How Is Stage Four Treated?

From there, treatment may focus on the primary cancer site in the lung and possibly include chemotherapy, surgery or radiation, or some blend of these ...

Association between initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy beyond 30 ...

Delayed time to chemotherapy (TTC) is associated with decreased outcomes of breast cancer patients. Recently, studies suggested that the ...

Chemotherapy for Small Cell Lung Cancer - NYU Langone Health

If the cancer has not spread beyond the chest, chemotherapy may be combined with radiation therapy, the use of high energy beams to destroy cancer cells.

Chemotherapy of Metastatic Breast Cancer: What to Expect in 2001 ...

However, complete responses (CR) are rare and less than 20% of patients who achieve a CR maintain that status beyond 5 years [6]. A variety of systemic ...

Depression and anxiety among people living with and beyond cancer

Research is urgently needed into the possible impacts of long-term and late effects of cancer treatment on mental health and how these may be ...

Prostate cancer - Treatment - NHS

Studies have shown that radiotherapy after prostate removal surgery may increase the chances of a cure, although research is still being carried out into when ...

Mayo Clinic's Cancer Care Beyond Walls - YouTube

Mayo Clinic is revolutionizing cancer treatment by administering chemotherapy at home through the Cancer Care Beyond Walls program.

Full article: Management of advanced or recurrent cervical cancer

Bevacizumab in addition to combination chemotherapy provides a duration of survival that is 3.7 months longer than that provided by combination ...