Preventing chemotherapy from damaging the heart
There could be an intervention on the horizon to help prevent heart damage caused by…
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Bladder cancer – When to use chemotherapy
In patients with bladder cancer, chemotherapy effectiveness is partially determined by the body’s immune system…
Largest clinical trial for blood cancer that has spread to brain shows new treatment regime dramatically improves survival for some patients
The largest ever clinical trial looking at the best way to treat lymphoma if it…
Cancer cells hibernate like bears to evade harsh chemotherapy
Tapping into an ancient evolutionary survival mechanism, cancer cells enter into a sluggish, slow-dividing state…
Triple chemotherapy combination improves metastatic colorectal cancer outcomes
Researchers from SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials group funded by the National…
SABCS 2020: Some postmenopausal women with common breast cancer may forgo chemotherapy
Postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer…
ASH 2020: Chemotherapy and blinatumomab improves survival for patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
A study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA, showed that…
Why do certain chemotherapies increase the likelihood of blood cancer?
In recent years, improvements in cancer therapy have led to a significant increase in cancer…
Aggressive childhood cancer could be treated by combining DNA-damage targeting drugs
An aggressive form of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma could be treatable with two cancer drugs currently…
Genomic analysis predicts survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy following radiotherapy over radiotherapy alone in low-grade gliomas
A practice-changing study, NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-RTOG 9802, has demonstrated, for the first time,…