Fri Sep 4, 2009 12:13pm EDTScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2009) — A common weed called American mayapple may soon offer an alternative to an Asian cousin that's been harvested almost to extinction because of its anti-cancer properties. The near-extinct Asian plant, Podophyllyum emodi, produces podophyllotoxin, a compound used in manufacturing etoposide, the active ingredient in a drug used for treating lung and testicular cancer. Podophyllyum emodi is a cousin of the common mayapple weed found in the United...
AJHO: The American Journal of Hematology/Oncology
August 18, 2009
● RESEARCHERS OF THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP HAVE DEVELOPED a new chemotherapy regimen known as ABVE-PC to treat patients with pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). Led by Cindy Schwartz, MD, director of pediatric hematology/ oncology at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, the group combined six different drugs into a dose-dense regimen that achieves rapid early response and limits...
NEW YORK AUG 19, 2008 (Reuters Health) - Women with high-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, as well as those who fail initial single-agent therapy, should be referred to a specialized trophoblastic disease center to maximize the chance for cure, physicians at Northwestern University in Chicago recommend.
Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia is one of the most curable of all human tumors, Dr. John R. Lurain and colleagues note in the August issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology....
HOLLYWOOD, Florida -- March 13, 2009 -- Several new drugs could be added to the arsenal of weapons used to combat recurrent or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer, doctors stated here at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) 14th Annual Conference: Clinical Practice Guidelines & Quality Cancer Care.
More than a dozen cytotoxic and targeted agents can now be considered in battling the disease, noted David S. Ettinger, MD, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive...
