ESTRO 37: Elderly less likely to benefit from simultaneous radio chemotherapy for lung cancer
An analysis of elderly patients treated in a phase II trial of radiotherapy combined with…
Browsing: chemotherapy
Preserving fertility during chemotherapy
Many chemotherapeutics act by damaging the DNA. Since cancer cells divide more often than most…
Simultaneous chemo and immunotherapy may be better for some with metastatic bladder cancer
Researchers from Mount Sinai and Sema4, a health information company and Mount Sinai venture, have…
AACR 2018: Combination therapy doubles survival in metastatic lung cancer
The immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab, when combined with chemotherapy, doubles survival in patients with non-squamous non-small…
Cancer costs Australia nearly $2 billion per year in lost labour
Antolin Bonnett, The Conversation Australia loses nearly A$2 billion of GDP every year due to…
Novel silver compounds offer a potential cancer treatment breakthrough
Marianne J. Cronjé, University of Johannesburg and Reinout Meijboom, University of Johannesburg The development of…
Global cancer trial sets new standard for post-surgery chemotherapy
Some stage III colon cancer patients can cut in half the number of chemotherapy treatments…
In the eye of the medulloblastoma
Can genes normally expressed only in the eye be activated in brain tumours? Such a…
Switching chemo on and off to reduce side effects
A new anti-cancer drug that could be switched ‘on’ and ‘off’ inside the body has…
How mathematics is helping to fight cancer
Mohammad Kohandel, University of Waterloo Nearly half of Canadians will develop cancer in their lifetime,…