Chemotherapy
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Researchers have created a portable device they say can determine the efficacy of patient-specific cancer drugs with an accuracy of almost 96 percent. Teaming sensors with machine learning, the device provides rapid results, aiding the selection of better drugs while reducing potential side effects.
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A detailed study has offered new insight into how disrupting circadian rhythms can promote tumor growth. The research also suggests that the efficacy of cancer therapies can be improved by more specifically timing the administration of certain drugs to a patient’s particular circadian rhythm.
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ScienceA large clinical trial is underway on an exciting new blood test designed to help doctors determine whether a patient needs to undergo chemotherapy following surgery to remove cancerous tumors.
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Skin cancer treatment often still requires chemotherapy, which is delivered intravenously and can cause a whole range of unpleasant side effects. Now, researchers have made the first steps towards a kind of chemo that can be “painted” onto the skin.
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Success with chemotherapy is a trade-off against subsequent damage to otherwise healthy organs, but thanks to a chance meeting at the Hudson Institute in Melbourne, lung cancer patients could be looking at more effective chemo with fewer side effects.
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Researchers at CNBP have developed a new targeted treatment for cancer. Chemotherapy drugs are wrapped in “nano-bubbles” called liposomes, which are then injected into the desired part of the body and made to release their payload on demand, by applying X-ray radiation.
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Many great scientific discoveries have arisen out of laboratory accidents. The latest serendipitous discovery comes from a cross-contamination accident that has revealed how a certain bacteria can stifle the efficacy of cancer drugs.
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A new study from a team of oncologists at the University of London has found pairing cannabinoids with chemotherapy drugs can increase the tumor-killing effects of both.
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Getting the correct drug dose for every patient is a challenge: too much or too little can be dangerous. A new tool developed at Stanford could keep the dose just right, using a biosensor to monitor the drug levels in a patient's bloodstream in real time, and administering extra doses as needed.
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While the scientific inquiry process is generally linear and highly regimented, every once in awhile, happenstance works its way in. That's just what happened when researchers found that two popular cancer-fighting drugs blasted fat off the bodies of morbidly obese mice.
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Brown fat has been studied as a potential treatment for obesity and related health issues. Now a team at Boston University has sequenced the genes of different fat types and found that white fat may be turned brown through several different mechanisms, including by way of an experimental chemo drug.
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Doctors have been using the chemotherapy drug cisplatin for decades, but significant toxic side effects limit its effectiveness as a treatment. A new method, which makes use of innovative nanoparticles, could change that, providing a less harmful “cluster bomb” approach to delivery.
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