Unlike most chemotherapy drugs, which have to be injected, ZD1839 was a convenient once-a-day pill.
Her team are currently testing new chemotherapy drugs studying their effect in a whole organism.
It will eventually destroy the tumor as well, but chemotherapy drugs are so potent because they are toxins.
Taxol, one of the most lucrative chemotherapy drugs ever, lost patent protection in the United States in 2002.
But that doesn't change the reality that some chemotherapy drugs produce stunning results.
One way to do that is to increase the effectiveness of old chemotherapy drugs by reducing toxic side effects.
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Dundee University researchers believe they have found a way to predict the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs in fighting ovarian cancer.
In truth, experts don't yet fully understand how much of the chemotherapy drugs administered to a pregnant woman reach the fetus.
Dr Feher and his colleagues examined the effect of two chemotherapy drugs - epirubicin and gemcitabine - on women aged 60 years and older.
But, ultimately, chemotherapy drugs could go the way of the dinosaur.
So pre-treating patients with Genasense should make chemotherapy drugs more effective.
That study had tested Avastin in combination with three chemotherapy drugs.
Animal tests conducted by Danishefsky at Memorial-Sloan Kettering, who discovered epothilone-D, show the compound can tame tumors that are impervious to Taxol and other chemotherapy drugs.
Kosan is in early human trials of epothilone-D, a potent variant of a promising new class of chemotherapy drugs derived from an African soil bacteria, Sorangium cellulosum.
As cancer costs explode, Ziopharm is one of a handful of biotech companies focusing on lower cost cancer drugs by coming up with less toxic versions of neglected old chemotherapy drugs.
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Billionaire Randal Kirk is taking a stake in Ziopharm Oncology, a maverick company developing less toxic chemotherapy drugs, to push forward a novel DNA therapy that he thinks will be far bigger than cancer vaccines.
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As Kavilanz points out in the CNN article, oncologists are also suffering as a result of receiving payment for cancer treating chemotherapy drugs that often does not even cover their out-of-pocket costs when purchasing the drugs they give to their patients.
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Weapons in the game include chemotherapy, cancer drugs and cells in the body's own immune system.
Dr. Marcoux recommended a different, more standard chemotherapy, with two drugs called carboplatin and paclitaxel.
Taxol is used during chemotherapy in combination with other drugs in order to destroy cancer cells.
There are many, many drugs and some forms of chemotherapy treatments that may bring about remission in Crohn's cases but no guarantees.
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Chemotherapy: This is the use of drugs that kill the cancer cells.
Amid the shortage, Iranians in need of the chemotherapy, cardiac, diabetes, haemophilia and other drugs have turned to the large Iranian diaspora for informal help.
Now the company is focusing on testing whether can improve side effects and usefulness in small molecule drugs, including ones for several old chemotherapy medicines.
The mother-of-three said it was the only drug that could treat her condition as chemotherapy does not work on kidney cancer and other drugs had not improved her condition.
Chemotherapy and radiation are standard treatments, along with use of drugs, called bisphosphonates, that specifically target the bones.
Ultimately, the hope is that relatively gentle new combinations of gene-targeted drugs will be able to replace far more toxic chemotherapy regimens.
Another project aims to use bacteria to produce superpowerful chemotherapy agents to shrink tumors that have developed resistance to existing drugs such as Bristol-Myers Squibb's Taxol.
The labels warn against using the drugs in cancer patients with relatively mild anemia resulting from chemotherapy.
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