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Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy: (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a category of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen. Chemotherapy may be given with a curative intent (which almost always involves combinations of drugs), or it may aim to prolong life or to reduce symptoms (palliative chemotherapy). Chemotherapy is one of the major categories of the medical discipline specifically devoted to pharmacotherapy for cancer, which is called medical oncology.
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SEP 10, 2015Cancer
Should cost be a concern in cancer testing? Female carriers of mutated BRCA genes have a significantly higher risk for d ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 03, 2015Cancer
A genetic test can predict whether some women’s breast cancer will recur, and that could influence how chemotherap ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 25, 2015Cancer
“Second cancers are on the rise,” according to an article by Marilynn Marchione, AP medical writer, that app ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 20, 2015Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 18, 2015Health & Medicine
Yesterday, scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Massachusetts made a novel connection between drinking coff ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 17, 2015Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 14, 2015Cancer
Getting cancer to go away is only part of the story. Keeping it from coming back may require an entirely different ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 27, 2015Cancer
While most scientists have viewed genetic aberrations as the primary cause of almost all cancer, a new study of ovarian ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 24, 2015Cancer
By discovering how micro-RNAs, small regulatory molecules in cells, render prostate cancer resistant to radiotherapy, re ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 19, 2015Cancer
Chemicals found in some beloved foods and beverages may help the body to utilize chemotherapy drugs. Valuable in a nutri ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 09, 2015Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 06, 2015Cancer
A drug that has been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis may find a new niche in treating blood cancers at a fraction of ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 06, 2015Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 29, 2015Cancer
While cancer research often focuses on genetic mutations that cause different cancers, a new study published in the jour ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 26, 2015Cancer
One reason why cancer is so harmful is that it can trick "checkpoint" proteins found on the immune system's T cells, vir ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 15, 2015Cancer
The best way to keep an aggressive disease at bay may be on your spice rack, not in your medicine cabinet. You probably ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 14, 2015Cancer
Oligodendroglioma, which can be an especially aggressive form of brain cancer, may be caused by a genetic mutation. Scie ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 11, 2015Health & Medicine
A 27-year old woman from Belgium was recently the first in the world to bear a child using transplanted frozen ovarian t ...JUN 02, 2015Cancer
Experts speaking at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2015 Conference and publishing in the New England ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 31, 2015Cancer
Genetic mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy in the most common and the most lethal form of ovarian cancer may provi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 18, 2015Neuroscience
Akin to the way chainmail's tight weave repels an attacking sword blade, the blood-brain barrier keeps guard of our brai ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 01, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Chemotherapy drugs damage DNA, keeping cells from replicating. However, according to researchers at the UNC School of Me ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 29, 2015Cancer
Molecular Health announced it has been granted a patent in Europe entitled "Tissue Protective Erythropoietin Receptor". ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
SEP 10, 2015
Cancer
Should cost be a concern in cancer testing? Female carriers of mutated BRCA genes have a significantly higher risk for d
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 03, 2015
Cancer
A genetic test can predict whether some women’s breast cancer will recur, and that could influence how chemotherap
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 25, 2015
Cancer
“Second cancers are on the rise,” according to an article by Marilynn Marchione, AP medical writer, that app
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 18, 2015
Health & Medicine
Yesterday, scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Massachusetts made a novel connection between drinking coff
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 17, 2015
Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 14, 2015
Cancer
Getting cancer to go away is only part of the story. Keeping it from coming back may require an entirely different
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 27, 2015
Cancer
While most scientists have viewed genetic aberrations as the primary cause of almost all cancer, a new study of ovarian
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 24, 2015
Cancer
By discovering how micro-RNAs, small regulatory molecules in cells, render prostate cancer resistant to radiotherapy, re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 19, 2015
Cancer
Chemicals found in some beloved foods and beverages may help the body to utilize chemotherapy drugs. Valuable in a nutri
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 06, 2015
Cancer
A drug that has been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis may find a new niche in treating blood cancers at a fraction of
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 06, 2015
Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 29, 2015
Cancer
While cancer research often focuses on genetic mutations that cause different cancers, a new study published in the jour
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 26, 2015
Cancer
One reason why cancer is so harmful is that it can trick "checkpoint" proteins found on the immune system's T cells, vir
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 15, 2015
Cancer
The best way to keep an aggressive disease at bay may be on your spice rack, not in your medicine cabinet. You probably
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 14, 2015
Cancer
Oligodendroglioma, which can be an especially aggressive form of brain cancer, may be caused by a genetic mutation. Scie
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 11, 2015
Health & Medicine
A 27-year old woman from Belgium was recently the first in the world to bear a child using transplanted frozen ovarian t
...
JUN 02, 2015
Cancer
Experts speaking at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2015 Conference and publishing in the New England
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 31, 2015
Cancer
Genetic mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy in the most common and the most lethal form of ovarian cancer may provi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 18, 2015
Neuroscience
Akin to the way chainmail's tight weave repels an attacking sword blade, the blood-brain barrier keeps guard of our brai
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 01, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Chemotherapy drugs damage DNA, keeping cells from replicating. However, according to researchers at the UNC School of Me
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 29, 2015
Cancer
Molecular Health announced it has been granted a patent in Europe entitled "Tissue Protective Erythropoietin Receptor".
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider