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Of Anthracycline - Articles
Anthracyclines: Does Stage Matter?
by
PinkRibbons ..
Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 1:49pm
to fight breast cancer. I met with some experts to discuss anthracyclines and the role they play in early and advanced stage breast cancer.
Doctor, breast cancer is a very diverse... analyses.
CATHY CONLEY: Dr. Muss, what's the role of anthracyclines in both the adjuvant and metastatic settings?
HYMAN B. MUSS, MD: Well, anthracyclines in the adjuvant
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Anthracycline Side Effects - Mode of Action
by
Angus
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 10:34am
How the anthracyclines cause heart damage – the biochemistry of it all. This post will probably take a few days as I try to get my head around it and then explain... range of complementary medicine as harmful. But what exactly is a free radical? Why is it harmful - And why to the heart - And why should anthracyclines contribute to this?
Free
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Anthracycline Side Effects - Mode of Action
by
Angus
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:09pm
How the anthracyclines cause heart damage – the biochemistry of it all. This post will probably take a few days as I try to get my head around it and then explain... range of complementary medicine as harmful. But what exactly is a free radical? Why is it harmful ? And why to the heart ? And why should anthracyclines contribute to this?
Free
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Will Targeted Therapies Work for CLL?
by
PinkRibbons ..
Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 1:49pm
cancer therapies. I had a chance to sit down with some of the experts to discuss issues surrounding a popular class of drugs called anthracyclines.
JOYCE O'SHAUGHNESSY, MD: It's pretty clear now that anthracycline-based therapy, called adjuvant chemotherapy, after the primary tumor has been removed, is where you're going to get your greatest survival
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FDA Approves Halaven for Late-Stage Breast Cancer
by
Medical Quack
Posted
Mon 15 Nov 2010 11:52pm
to paclitaxel and anthracycline-containing chemotherapy; Ixempra (ixabepilone) for patients with late-stage disease after failure of an anthracycline, taxane and Xeloda; and Ixempra plus Xeloda for patients with late-stage disease after failure of anthracycline- and taxane-based chemotherapy.
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Ixempra for ovarian cancer
by
Mark Levin
Posted
Sun 04 Oct 2009 11:12pm
with an anthracycline and a taxane, or whose cancer is taxane resistant and for whom further anthracycline therapy is contraindicated. Ixempra monotherapy is specifically indicated for the treatment of metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer in patients whose tumors are resistant or refractory to anthracyclines, taxanes, and capecitabine. Ixempra is not well
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Protein Helps Predict Cancer Therapy-induced Heart Damage
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Cancer.gov
Posted
Mon 09 Aug 2010 9:00pm
the relationship between anthracycline -based chemotherapy, trastuzumab, and heart damage. Cardiotoxicity in patients receiving trastuzumab is more likely if they have had previous anthracycline treatment, and those patients treated with sequential anthracycline therapy and trastuzumab are less likely to recover cardiac function than patients not previously treated
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I want to live longer than you ...
by
Angus
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 10:35am
by the anthracycline group of drugs – in her case daunorubicin and doxorubicin.
First, let’s look at the heart. Four chambers – the right atrium and ventricle, the left atrium and ventricle.... The blood then passes to the left atrium and then the left ventricle which then pumps it back into the blood system.
The anthracyclines can effect the thickness of the wall
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UKALL 2003 - Dexamethasone 1
by
Angus
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 10:35am
by the anthracyclines. I'll discuss now, and leave its other role until a later date (when I understand it!).
Nausea and vomiting (known as emesis) are controlled in part of the brain known as ... the Vomiting Centre (not often that medical jargon is this straightforward!). The anthracyclines stimulate the production of a chemical called Serotonin (or more correctly 5-HT
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UKALL 2003 - Daunorubicin and Doxorubicin
by
Angus
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 10:35am
These drugs belong to a family of medications called anthracyclines which act directly on cell DNA and prevent the cell from replicating.
Daunorubicin: this is administered...!).
Another side-effect of the anthracyclines is hair-loss. In young adults, this can be a major psychological issue (Lucia discusses it in her blog – link on right). However, although
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