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Cisplatin Chemo - Articles
Cisplatin Might Be An Effective Chemotherapy for Some Breast Cancer Patients
by
Aaron Tabor
Posted
Wed 03 Feb 2010 12:00am
Cisplatin is a chemotherapy drug approved by the FDA for use in the treatment of a variety of cancers including cancers of the bladder, ovary, testes, and cervix. However, cisplatin is not commonly used for breast cancer chemotherapy.
New breast cancer research explored the potential benefit of cisplatin as a chemotherapy agent for triple negative
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Chemotherapy, Round 2…or…The ABC’s of Chemo
by
Carrie D.
Posted
Sun 09 Mar 2008 12:00am
’t! It only took one attempt. I guess I was just being difficult today.
Here’s a picture of the nurses’ station in the chemo room, as seen from my chair….
…..the door... of water……which is why I visit the bathroom above several times during each visit. The Cytoxan that I get on chemo days is very hard on my bladder so my job is to try to flush
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Locally advanced esophageal and GE Junction cancer: Chemotherapy and radiation
by
Mark Levin
Posted
Wed 24 Jun 2009 7:01pm
with disease that extends beyond the site of origin in the esophagus. The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study 85-01 compared treatment with 4 cycles of cisplatin plus 5-FU... of the patients had squamous cell carcinoma. Patients treated with both chemotherapy and radiation therapy had a significantly better average duration of survival (14 months vs 9 months, p
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Mullerian endometrial cancers: Chemotherapy for metastatic disease.
by
Mark Levin
Posted
Wed 26 Jan 2011 12:00am
to be equivalent to, and less toxic than, alternative chemo-therapy approaches in this clinical setting (e.g., cisplatin plus ifosfamide; ifosfamide plus paclitaxel).
Doxorubicin in combination with dacarbazine or cyclophosphamide is no more active than doxorubicin alone for advanced disease. Cisplatin has activity as first-line therapy and minimal activity
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Recommendations for Colon Cancer & Chemotherapy
by
Ben L.
Posted
Thu 27 Aug 2009 9:43pm
Colon Cancer
What products sold by Healthegoods that you can suggest for someone that has stage 4 colon cancer and has done 3 chemo treatments?
Answer:
Hi Wilfred... acid, the active form of Folic acid, is a very heavily researched nutrient which is often used along with chemotherapy for colon cancers.
It is imperative that Folinic acid
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High dose vitamin C may worsen cancer chemotherapy results
by
Dr. John Z.
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 4:12pm
1 Comment
AACR.org - In pre-clinical studies, vitamin C in higher doses appears to substantially reduce the effectiveness of anticancer chemotherapy, say researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
These new findings, published in the October 1, 2008 issue of Cancer Research, a publication of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), came from
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