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Precious Metal Could Lead To Next Generation Of Cancer Treatments by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy ... , which is widely used to treat cancers in the form of the drug cisplatin. Most famously, the cyclist Lance Armstrong was treate ...
Resistance to chemotherapy and role of BRCA2 by Dr. Ramunas J. Medical Doctor ... lso render it sensitive to DNA-damaging chemotherapy drugs like cisplatin. Unfortunately, many BRCA2 tumours develop resistance ...
Eating Well by xoxomarebear Patient Expert ... hemo is tomorrow morning, when she will receive Vincristine and Cisplatin. She is doing very well, and seems very strong and hap ...
The US Food and Drug ... by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven ... (FDA) has approved Taxotere Injection Concentrate combined with cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil for induction therapy of locally ad ...
The Updates by xoxomarebear Patient Expert To keep it short and simple, Vivienne had her Vincristine and Cisplatin yesterday. She is doing fine so far (no nausea), but ...
Good news for chemotherapy patie ... by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven ... epeat courses of emetogenic cancer therapy, including high-dose cisplatin and with radiation, including total body irradiation a ...
More weekend news: Sunday, November 30, 2008 by Dr. Arnon K. Medical Doctor ... ns.Dhar et al. have reported on a technical method to integrate cisplatin into nanoparticles that would possibly allow the use o ...
Resistance to chemotherapy and role of BRCA2 by Dr. Ramunas J. Medical Doctor ... also render it sensitive to DNA-damaging chemotherapy drugs likecisplatin. Unfortunately, many BRCA2 tumours develop resistance ...
Growing SO Fast! by xoxomarebear Patient Expert ... with minimal nausea. Of course, since she gets Vincristine and Cisplatin today, and Cisplatin is notorious for causing vomiting ...
BPA and chemotherapy by Katherine B. Patient ExpertPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee ... ncer tumors. The chemo drugs that were tested are doxorubicin, cisplatin and vinblastine.Doxorubicin (Adriamycin/Rubex) is also ...

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Cisplatin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cisplatin, cisplatinum, or cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (CDDP) is a platinum -based chemotherapy drug used to treat various types of cancers, ...

Cisplatin: MedlinePlus Drug Information
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ACS :: Cancer Drug Guide: cisplatin
Cisplatin is used to treat testicular, bladder, and ovarian cancers that have spread. It alsocan be used to treat several other cancers, such as lung cancer ...

Fluorouracil, mitomycin, and radiotherapy vs fluorouracil ...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of cisplatin-based (experimental) therapy ... These findings do not support the use of cisplatin in place of mitomycin in ...

The effects of cisplatin and methotrexate on the expression of ...
When UV exposure (16 JM-2)was coupled with Cisplatin (50 uM) treatment using maximally stimulating doses of each, HIV-LTR induction was the same as for each ...

Intraperitoneal cisplatin and paclitaxel in ovarian cancer.
The Gynecologic Oncology Group conducted a randomized, phase 3 trial that compared intravenous paclitaxel plus cisplatin with intravenous paclitaxel plus ...

anyone on Adriamycin, Cisplatin, and Taxol | Cancer Survivors Network
I had a hysterectomy & debulking surgery in April 09 & in September completed 6 rounds of IV taxol & IP cisplatin (this is where they put ...

Phase III study of docetaxel and cisplatin plus fluorouracil ...
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Advanced gastric cancer patients were randomly assigned to docetaxel 75 mg/m2 and cisplatin 75 mg/m2 (day 1) plus fluorouracil 750 ...

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Treatment ... n, directly into your bloodstream). This is likely to be either cisplatin, or carboplatin, both of which have been proven to be ... » Read on
Treatment ... for primary bone cancer include methotrexate, doxorubicin, and cisplatin. Chemotherapy can also be used after surgery to kill a ... » Read on

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They found cisplatin killed cells with a mutant form of the. ... Cisplatin: Drug Information Provided by Lexi-Comp: Merck Manual Professional -- Merck Co., ...

Breast Cancer - All Questions Relating To "Cisplatin"
Apr 15, 2009 ... Information on breast cancer: signs and symptoms, breast health, and breast cancer drugs and treatments. Join a community of breast cancer ...

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Sep 28, 2009 ... In particular, cisplatin, which was studied in this trial, ... Cisplatin is primarily usually used to treat ovarian cancer, Attia noted. ...

Ovarian Cancer - Medications
A platinum-based agent, such as carboplatin (Paraplatin) or cisplatin (Platinol) . At this time carboplatin is preferred over cisplatin in the combination ...

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Breast Cancer - Gemcitabine+Cisplatin better than Taxol? ... Get help here. ... Now her doctor wants her to take Gemcitabine+Cisplatin and not Taxol. ...

Hodgkin's Disease - Other Treatments
Drugs that have shown some effectiveness in combinations for relapsed or progressive HD in children and adolescents include cisplatin plus regimens with ...

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Platinol (Cisplatin) drug warnings and precautions - prescription drugs and medications at RxList -- Drug Information By Rxlist ...

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SUO 2009 - Testis cancer update - Session Highlights
Salvage VIP with cisplatin resulted in a CR of 47% with durable CR of 25%. This includes relapse patients and those who were initially refractory to ...

Long-Term Testicular Cancer Survivors at High Risk for Neurological Side Effects
25, 2009) — Long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy had more severe side effects, including neurological ...

Cisplatin-based chemotherapy linked to severe side effects in long-term ...
Long-term survivors of unilateral testicular cancer treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy had more dose-dependent neurological side effects and ...

New Class of Platinum-Based Anti-Tumor Drugs, Bisplatinates, Demonstrates ...
Platinum-based compounds, such as cisplatin and oxaliplatin, are the cornerstone in the treatment of testicular, ovarian, colorectal, lung and other cancers ...