Potential treatment for eye cancer using tumour-killing virus
Hemant Khanna, University of Massachusetts Medical School When most people think of the word “virus,”…
Browsing: chemotherapy
Do all chemotherapies have equal long-term heart risk?
In long-term survivors of childhood cancer, cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of early death…
Surge Protector: Novel approach to suppressing therapy-induced tumour growth
In a recent groundbreaking study, a team of researchers led by BIDMC’s Dipak Panigrahy, MD,…
Ice-free scalp cooling during chemotherapy prevents reduces hair loss for breast cancer patients
Breast cancer patient Laura Carey returned to work one week after beginning chemotherapy, but without…
Trial shows pembrolizumab performs better than chemotherapy in second line treatment of advanced oesophageal cancer
Announced today were the first presentation of results from KEYNOTE-181, a Phase 3 trial investigating…
How drugs can minimise the side effects of chemotherapy
Researchers at the University of Zurich have determined the three-dimensional structure of the receptor that…
SABCS 2018: Adjuvant capecitabine did not significantly improve outcomes for patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer
Treating patients who had early-stage triple-negative breast cancer with the chemotherapy agent capecitabine after they…
SABCS 2018: Delaying adjuvant chemotherapy associated with worse outcomes for patients with triple-negative breast cancer
Patients with triple-negative breast cancer who delayed starting adjuvant chemotherapy for more than 30 days…
Cancer blood test trialed to prevent unnecessary chemo
Cancer patients could be spared unnecessary chemotherapy – and its side-effects – by a new…
New blood test could spare cancer patients from needless chemotherapy after surgery
Jeanne Tie, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Many cancer patients could soon be spared the…