chemotherapy

NICE recommends pembrolizumab for advanced stomach cancers

Posted in Medicine on 27th Aug, 2024
by Alex Muller

NICE has approved pembrolizumab for advanced gastric cancer, enhancing survival and delaying progression when combined with chemotherapy.

Drug-chemo combo increases cancer treatment efficacy

Posted in Medicine on 27th Aug, 2024
by Alex Muller

Combining a fatty acid synthase inhibitor with chemotherapy may enhance treatment efficacy for brain metastases from triple-negative breast cancer.

Study Explores Why Glioblastoma Treatment May Work Better in the Morning

Posted in Medicine on 23rd May, 2024
by Alex Muller

Rhythms are aligned with daily activity of a DNA repair enzyme known as MGMT. The scientists then conducted tests and found that tumor cells were more likely to die when chemotherapy was administered at the time of day, the morning, when tumor cells had the least MGMT activity.

 Improving brain tumour treatment

Posted in Medicine, Science on 14th Feb, 2023
by Alex Muller

Temozolomide, a chemotherapy drug discovered and developed by CRUK scientists, changed brain tumour treatment forever.

New class of drug could treat leukemia with fewer side effects

Posted in Medicine, Science on 27th Aug, 2022
by Alex Muller

Researchers have identified a new class of drugs that could prove useful in fighting leukemia with less side effects than existing chemotherapy drugs.