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View Post: » Sirolimus can help with Mesothelioma Treatment - Blogger News ...
17 Nov 2009 by Deon Scott  
According to researchers working at a Boston women's hospital an immunosuppressant drug called Sirolimus can help with mesothelioma treatment. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is linked to long term or high level exposure to ...
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View Post: Mesothelioma Treatment Improved with Addition of Sirolimus ...
12 Nov 2009 by jwhitmer  
Sirolimus, which is also known as rapamycin, is an immunosuppressant drug traditionally used to prevent rejection of organ transplantations (especially used in kidney transplants). Because of its anti-proliferative effects, sirolimus is ...
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View Post: Blood -- A phase II pilot study of tacrolimus/sirolimus GVHD ...
19 Nov 2009 by Rodriguez, R., Nakamura, R., Palmer, JM,...  
Combination tacrolimus and sirolimus GVHD prophylaxis for allogeneic transplant in patients conditioned with a fractionated total body irradiation (TBI)-based regimen has shown encouraging results. We studied this prophylaxis ...
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View Post: Three-Year Outcomes After Sirolimus-Eluting Stent Implantation for ...
9 Nov 2009 by Toyofuku, M., Kimura, T., Morimoto, T.,...  
Methods and Results— j-Cypher is a multicenter prospective registry of consecutive patients undergoing sirolimus-eluting stent implantation in Japan. Among 12 824 patients enrolled in the j-Cypher registry, the unadjusted mortality rate ...
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View Post: Response to imatinib plus sirolimus in advanced chordoma ...
27 Oct 2009 by Stacchiotti, S., Marrari, A., Tamborini,...  
The evidence of upstream and/or downstream mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway activation prompted us to combine an mTOR inhibitor, sirolimus, to IM in IM-resistant advanced chordoma. Patients and methods: Since July 2007, ...
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View Post: Sirolimus for Polycystic Kidney Disease
18 Nov 2009 by admin  
One such is the drug sirolimus, which has been mentioned before. More recently however a pilot study performed in adult polycystic kidney disease patients has added further hope that sirolimus may one day be used routinely in this ...
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View Post: Sirolimus Improves Standard Mesothelioma Treatment
16 Nov 2009 by etoupin  
Adding sirolimus to chemotherapy with cisplatin has been shown to be more effective against mesothelioma than cisplatin alone, say some researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. The study was conducted specifically ...
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View Post: Evaluation of the Peri-strut Low Intensity Area Following ...
14 Nov 2009
Evaluation of the Peri-strut Low Intensity Area Following Sirolimus- and Paclitaxel-Eluting Background: In previous pathological studies, paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) showed greater fibrin deposition around stent struts, ...
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View Post: Mesothelioma Treatment Improved with Addition of Sirolimus ...
12 Nov 2009 by admin  
Researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts have found that adding sirolimus to chemotherapy with cisplatin was more effective at treating mesothelioma than with cisplatin alone. Sirolimus, which is also ...
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