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Researchers using magnetic bacteria to fight tumors
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Scientists around the world are researching how anti-cancer drugs can most efficiently reach the tumors they target.
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New cancer drug could be developed using mushroom that grows on insects: R
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) [US], October 19 (ANI): The Cordyceps mushroom is well known for its gruesome eating habits: it is well-known that its spores kill insects by infecting them, and the dead insects' flesh sprouts fully developed fruiting bodies of the Cordyceps fungus.
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Four major anti-cancer drugs added in essential medicines list
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): Four major anti-cancer drugs have been added to the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM). The drugs included in the list are Bendamustine Hydrochloride, HCI Trihydrate, Lenalidomide and Leuprolide Acetate.
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Research: Fibroblasts connected to cancer increase drug sensitivity
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): Despite some studies suggesting that these fibroblasts may also make cancer cells more sensitive to therapy, cancer-associated fibroblasts in the tumour environment have typically been linked to tumour progression and resistance to therapy.
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Research: How various cancer cells react to drug-delivery nanoparticles
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Boston [US], July 22 (ANI): Using nanoparticles to deliver cancer drugs allows for high drug concentrations to be delivered to tumours while avoiding the harmful side effects associated with chemotherapy. However, only a few nanoparticle-based cancer drugs have received FDA approval.
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Cancer drug has potential to treat muscular dystrophy: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): According to a new study, a group of researchers found that a cancer drug available at present could have the potential to treat muscular dystrophy.
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Research: Cancer drug shows potential as muscular dystrophy treatment
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 30 (ANI): Researchers have discovered that an existing cancer drug could have potential as a treatment for muscular dystrophy.
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Rather than opioid based pain medication, a new way found to treat chronic
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 19 (ANI): A potential new way to treat chronic pain is using anti-cancer drugs rather than opioid-based pain medication, reveals a new study by the University of Calgary.
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Potential new way to treat chronic pain using anti-cancer drugs: Study
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 14 (ANI): A new study by the University of Calgary reveals a potential new way to treat chronic pain using anti-cancer drugs rather than opioid-based pain medication.
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Findings about new cancer drug very encouraging, need for long-term studie
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The findings concerning dostarlimab, an antibody drug, in experimental treatment of rectal cancer patients is very encouraging but there is need for long-term studies to understand the real impact, an expert in cancer treatment has said.
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'Glimpse of a revolutionary treatment': Scientists react to miracle cancer
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI): Medical experts and scientists are enthused by the "glimpse of a revolutionary treatment" and hope held out for a possible cancer cure after the results of a clinical trial in the US showed that 12 patients with rectal cancer did not show any signs of the
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Next-generation immunotherapy drug shows promise in some late-stage cancer
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Ney York [US], May 27 (ANI): Initial study results prove that an experimental drug called 'nemvaleukin alfa' can be used to treat several types of late-stage cancer in some patients when used alone or in combination with another anticancer drug 'pembrolizumab.'
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