Over half of ovarian cancer patients develop recurrence, becoming resistant to cisplatin and other platinum-based chemotherapies.
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New Genes and Natural Toxins Offer Hope for Cancer Patients Unresponsive to Chemotherapy
Scientists have discovered two new genes that cause head and neck cancer patients to be resistant to chemotherapy.
When confronted with a diagnosis of cancer, chemotherapy can be an effective line of treatment to tackle the disease.
Metastases and resistance to chemotherapy are the main causes of treatment failure and mortality in cancer patients.
Research from Sanford Burnham Prebys in the US and the Osaka International Cancer Institute has shed new light on the anti-cancer properties of mannose, a sugar that is crucial to many physiological processes in humans and is also known to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
Medulloblastoma is a malignant brain tumour that mainly affects children under the age of 10.
A new nuclear medicine therapy can cure human non-Hodgkin lymphoma in an animal model.
Over the past decade, human papillomavirus (HPV) has increasingly been identified as a significant cause of certain head and neck cancers.
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Afternoon Chemotherapy Proved to Deliver More Desirable Results for Female Lymphoma Patients
Chemotherapy is a commonly used regimen for cancer treatment, but it is also a double-edged sword.