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View Post: Cetuximab Helps Treat Colorectal Cancer - Drugs.com MedNews
17 hours ago
Adding the drug cetuximab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy can shrink tumors and boost the odds of successful surgery in colorectal cancer patients with inoperable m. ... The treatment, in general, didn't have serious side effects. "Our data suggest that treatment with cetuximab and chemotherapy results in high confirmed tumor response rates ... leading to ... increased respectability," Folprecht and colleagues wrote. "In the light of recent studies in metastatic colorectal ...
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View Post: Mesothelioma is a deadly cancer
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24 Nov 2009 by admin   ...
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View Post: Cetuximab Helps Treat Colorectal Cancer - WAFB Channel 9, Baton ...
15 hours ago
The treatment, in general, didn't have serious side effects. "Our data suggest that treatment with cetuximab and chemotherapy results in high confirmed tumor response rates ... leading to ... increased respectability," Folprecht and ...
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View Post: New developments in pancreatic cancer @AACR - Pharma Strategy Blog
24 Nov 2009 by MaverickNY  
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with a generally poor prognosis, largely because it is usually detected in late stage disease where chemotherapy options generally have a limited effect. ... Two of the other interesting ideas came from a research group at the Massachusetts General Hospital here in Boston. The first one, presented by Tayyaba Hassan, took an out of box approach to rethink how to get a drug that has shown some modest efficacy in pancreatic cancer, ...
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View Post: How To Win With Cancer Posted By: januszjanulis » Articles B
25 Nov 2009 by admin  
How To Win With Cancer. “The One-Minute Cure”. Sir / Madam. “Hollywood has had it with cancer,” screams USA Today in an issue concerning celebrities that have vowed to conquer cancer. Just as in the general population, ... refuse chemotherapy if they were struck with cancer due to its ineffectiveness and its devastating side effects.” In fact, the medical journal, “Clinical Oncology,” published the results of a study in December 2004, wherein it was shown that ...
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View Post: Age should not affect chemotherapy choice for stage IV lung cancer ...
20 Nov 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In an update to its 2003 guidelines for stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) chemotherapy, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommends that age not affect the choice of protocol. ... In general, patients with better status scores (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group/Zubrod scores of 0 or 1) should receive two cytotoxic drugs as first-line therapy, while those with worse scores should receive single-agent chemotherapy ...
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View Post: Cancer Canine Skin
13 hours ago
In general cancer canine skin is classified as benign or malignant, i.e. benign may not be always cancerous but has the potential to develop into cancer. Benign dog skin cancer does also run the immediate risk of spreading to other parts of the body. .... Different options for cancer canine skin such as surgery, cryosurgery (freezing diseased area), chemotherapy and radiation therapy have been identified as effective for treating various types of skin cancer in dogs. ...
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View Post: What Is The Life Expectancy Of A Person That Has Ovarian Cancer?
10 hours ago by admin  
Seriously, it depends on the stage of the cancer, the expertise of the surgeon, a good oncologist, the general state of your health prior to cancer, the support network, your attitude, your tolerance toward treatment and its effectiveness and prayer. ... I believe it was adjuvant chemotherapy, after surgery ? In that case she will probably be ok. It would be better for her to get checked regularly though, as when it comes back, cancer is often resistant to primary chemo, ...
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View Post: Sleep Disorders Plague Cancer Patients
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23 Nov 2009 by hernews   ...
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View Post: Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Phase II Study of Sequential ...
16 Oct 2009 by Mok, Wu, Yu, Zhou, Chen, Zhang, Ignacio,...  
From The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sir YK Pau Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Southern China, Prince of Wales Hospital; Roche Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Guangdong General Hospital; Cancer Center of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou ; Shanghai Pulmonary ... Conclusion Sequential administration of erlotinib following gemcitabine/platinum chemotherapy led to a significant improvement in PFS. This treatment approach warrants further investigation in a phase III study. ...
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