Items tagged with Chemotherapy

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Tumor Mutations Can Predict Chemo Success Friday, August 7th, 2009 - 12:20:21 - Anuradha Menon New work by MIT cancer biologists shows that the interplay between two key genes that are often defective in tumors determines how cancer cells... read more

Breastlight Could Find Early Breast Cancer Friday, June 12th, 2009 - 10:04:23 - Anuradha Menon A new device has been invented by Dr. David Watmough could help millions of women avoid debilitating mastectomies, chemotherapy, or even death. The... read more

Ginger May Help Nausea from Cancer Treatment Saturday, May 16th, 2009 - 17:56:10 - Anuradha Menon Taking ginger capsules before and after chemotherapy for cancer can ease nausea when anti-vomiting drugs aren't enough, according to a new study... read more

How Chemotherapy Drugs Slow Cancer Spread Sunday, January 25th, 2009 - 14:02:10 - Ehud Rattner Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how a whole class of commonly used chemotherapy drugs can block cancer... read more

Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 - 15:58:13 - Ehud Rattner MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The sensors, made of... read more

New Cancer-Killing Compound from Salad Plant Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - 18:01:17 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more... read more

Methadone Breaks Resistance in Leukemia Monday, August 4th, 2008 - 13:19:48 - Ehud Rattner Researchers in Germany have discovered that methadone, an agent used to break addiction to opioid drugs, has surprising killing power against... read more

New Understanding of Common Blood Cancer Thursday, July 24th, 2008 - 14:23:04 - Ehud Rattner A team of Cardiff University scientists has identified a key protein in the blood that prevents chemotherapy killing leukaemia cells. It is believed... read more

Tumor Cells Can't Self-Destruct? Thursday, May 1st, 2008 - 18:46:50 - Ehud Rattner Tumor cells living in the cross hairs of radiation or chemotherapy may be able to escape death because their self-destruct mechanisms are jammed, say... read more

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