UQ research investigates how to stop painful chemo for kids
Stopping children undergoing chemotherapy from feeling pain and other debilitating side-effects is the focus of research underway at The University ...
Tag: Chemo
Cell-free DNA methylation used to predict chemo benefit in bladder cancer
A team of researchers from SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials group funded by the National Cancer Institute ...
Gene change explains chemo resistance in germ cell cancer
Extra copies of a piece of DNA partly explain insensitivity to chemotherapy in germ cell cancer, a new study shows. ...
Stealth nanomedicines combat cancer and cut toxic effects of chemo
Nanomedicines – typically drugs hidden within nanoscopic fatty membranes (‘liposomes’) – have potential to transform chemotherapy treatments, improving drug delivery ...
Exercise may boost impact of pre-surgical chemo in patients with food pipe (oesophageal) cancer
‘Prehab’ exercise may boost the impact of chemotherapy given to patients with cancer of the food pipe (oesophagus) to shrink ...
Drug compound makes pancreatic cancer cells more vulnerable to chemo
Pancreatic cancer is extremely difficult to treat. By the time it is detected, the cancer often has reached an advanced ...
Chemo helps breast cancer cells get their ‘foot in the door’ to the lungs
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study adds to the evidence that chemotherapy enhances cancer’s spread beyond the primary tumor, showing ...