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antineoplastic inhibiting the maturation and proliferation of malignant cells. antineoplastic agent. antineoplastic therapy a regimen that includes chemotherapy, aimed at destruction of malignant cells using a variety of agents that directly affect cellular growth and development.Chemotherapy is but one of a variety of methods available in the treatment of cancer.. an agent having such properties. antineoplastic therapy. a regimen of treatment aimed at destruction of malignant cells and utilizing a variety of chemical agents that directly affect cellular growth and development.
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antineoplastic Drugs used in the treatment of cancer are cytotoxic but are generally more damaging to dividing cells than to resting cells. Cycle-specific antineoplastic agents are more effective in killing proliferating cells than resting cells, and phase-specific agents are most active during a specific phase of the cell cycle.
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Chemotherapy-Ëther-É-pÄ These drugs kill cancer cells by attacking specific pathways and processes vital to the cancer cells’ survival and growth. For example, cancer cells need blood vessels to provide nutrients and oxygen. Some drugs can block blood vessel formation to cancer cells or the master signaling pathways that control cell growth.
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- The experimental treatment has primarily focused in the treatment of leukemia, a cancer caused by the uncontrollable spread of white blood cells, usually the B-Cells, which are a part of the immune system. [13] Treatment of malignant gliomas using genetically-modified neural stem cells as a marker is discussed.
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Chemotherapy Chemotherapy works by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer cells, which grow and divide quickly. But it can also harm healthy cells that divide quickly, such as those that line your mouth and intestines or cause your hair to grow. Damage to healthy cells may cause side effects.
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- 1 The higher chemotherapy/radiation therapy dose that can be used because of hematopoietic stem cell support achieves a significantly higher cell kill of the disease. 2  This may include increased tumor kill in areas where standard-dose chemotherapy has less penetration (central nervous system).
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Overview Paraneoplastic syndromes of the nervous system are a group of uncommon disorders that develop in some people who have cancer. Paraneoplastic syndromes can also affect other organ systems including hormone (endocrine), skin (dermatologic), blood (hematologic) and joints (rheumatologic).
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EGFR epidermal growth factor receptor [ (human)] Thymoquinone up-regulates PTEN expression and induces apoptosis in doxorubicin-resistant human breast cancer cells. Thymoquinone in liposomes: a study of loading efficiency and biological activity towards breast cancer.
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Anthracyclines and Taxanes in the Neoadjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer Adjuvant chemotherapy in early breast cancer decreases the risks of recurrence and breast cancer mortality and neoadjuvant treatment of operable disease is associated with clinically equivalent long-term outcomes.
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Bone Marrow (Hematopoietic) Stem Cells Treatment involves using medicines (chemotherapy) to kill the cancer cells. Most types of AML are treated the same way in the beginning, with more than one chemotherapy drug. Chemotherapy kills normal cells, too.
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Targeted Therapy Breast cancer targeted therapy uses drugs that block the growth of breast cancer cells in specific ways. For example, targeted therapy may block the action of an abnormal protein (such as HER2) that stimulates the growth of breast cancer cells. For example, Trastuzumab (Herceptin®) or lapatinib (TYKERB®) may be given to a woman whose lab tests show that her breast tumor has too much HER2.
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Chemotherapy 1 Destroy cancer cells that may remain after surgery or radiation therapy. This is called adjuvant chemotherapy. 2  Help radiation therapy and biological therapy work better.  Destroy cancer cells that have come back (recurrent cancer) or spread to other parts of your body (metastatic cancer).
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âWhat are chemotherapy and biotherapy? ​What are chemotherapy and biotherapy? Normally, cells divide and grow at a controlled rate. Chemotherapy is the use of chemicals to stop cancer cells from dividing and growing. In addition to stopping cancer cells from dividing and growing, biotherapy increases the ability of the immune system to destroy cancer cells. Biotherapy can interfere with a tumor’s ability to grow its own blood vessels. It can also reduce side effects of chemotherapy such as lowering of the white blood cells.
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- INTRODUCTION OF ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS / ANTICANCER DRUGS:Antineoplastics or Anticancer drugs are the drugs that prevent or inhibit the maturation and proliferation of neoplasms. Antineoplastic agents travel the body and destroy cancer cells.
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A Review of Discord, Your New Favorite Program [Updated 6/9/16] for gamers by gamers i ll first go over whether discord is going to replace your current setup in order for me to fully recommend discord it has to either do what other programs do only better or offer a set of features that are often overlooked by other programs otherwise there s no real reason for anyone to switch
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Targeted therapy As a form of molecular medicine, targeted therapy blocks the growth of cancer cells by interfering with specific targeted molecules needed for carcinogenesis and tumor growth, rather than by simply interfering with all rapidly dividing cells (e.g. with traditional chemotherapy). Bevacizumab (marketed as Avastin) targets circulating VEGF ligand. 2  It is approved for use in the treatment of colon cancer, breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, and is investigational in the treatment of sarcoma. 3  Its use for the treatment of brain tumors has been recommended.
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Melphalan The normal cells most commonly affected by chemotherapy are the blood cells, the cells in the mouth, stomach and bowel, and the hair follicles; resulting in low blood counts, mouth sores, nausea, diarrhea, and/or hair loss. Different drugs may affect different parts of the body.isplatin is an anti-cancer (antineoplastic or cytotoxic) chemotherapy drug. Cisplatin is classified as an alkylating agent. (For more detail, see How Cisplatin Works section below).
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- A protocol may use one or as many as five or six different antineoplastic agents. Selection of an appropriate protocol should be based on type of tumor, grade or degree of malignancy, stage of the disease, condition of the animal, and financial considerations.
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- Residual issues in the therapy of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A number of very important questions remain about the role of our present therapies, standard combination chemotherapy, imatinib (or other TKI) and allogeneic HSCT, in the treatment of Ph+ ALL.
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Trachea The trachea, colloquially called the windpipe, is a tube that connects the pharynx and larynx to the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all air-breathing animals with lungs.Only in the lungfish, where the lung is connected to the pharynx and the larynx, is it absent.he epiglottis closes the opening to the larynx during swallowing. The trachea develops in the second month of development. It is lined with an epithelium that has goblet cells which produce protective mucins. An inflammatory condition, also involving the larynx and bronchi, called croup can result in a barking cough.
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- I know the written description is hard to follow, but the pictures under Related Links, below, should give you a good idea what a trestle table and its frame look like. Note they come in many different styles -- even the traditional picnic table is a form of trestle. (MORE)
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Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment (PDQÂ®)âPatient Version Adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes too many lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). Leukemia may affect red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Previous chemotherapy and exposure to radiation may increase the risk of developing ALL.
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Anthracyclines Accumulation of anthracyclines in the nucleus of neoplastic and proliferating cells. Anthracyclines enter the cells through passive diffusion[9]. An elegant mechanism of the selective transport of anthracyclines to the nuclei of neoplastic and proliferating cells has been proposed by Kiyomiya and colleagues[10, 11]. It has been demonstrated with doxorubicin that once it enters the cells, it binds the proteasomes in the cytoplasm for which it has high affinity.
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Biologic Therapies for Cancer Treatment Enhance the immune system to fight the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells. Make cancer cells more vulnerable to destruction by the immune system. Change the growth patterns of cancer cells so that they are more like normal cells, and are less likely to spread.
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Biology 166 Unsolved Problems in Cell Biology The most important effect of chemotherapy is that it kills cancer cells. However, chemotherapy can also affect normal cells that rapidly divide and grow, such as those in the bone marrow, digestive tract, skin, hair and reproductive organs. When normal cells are damaged, this can cause side effects.he most important effect of chemotherapy is that it kills cancer cells. However, chemotherapy can also affect normal cells that rapidly divide and grow, such as those in the bone marrow, digestive tract, skin, hair and reproductive organs. When normal cells are damaged, this can cause side effects.
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- Biological therapy for myeloma. Biological therapies are treatments that use natural substances from the body, or that change the way that cells signal to each other. Biological therapies stimulate the body to attack cancer cells or control their growth.Some biological therapy drugs can control the growth of myeloma cells.ortezomib is used for. 1  People who can't have thalidomide treatment or high dose chemotherapy with a stem cell transplant. 2  People whose myeloma has come back after previous chemotherapy, and who are unable to have, or have had, a stem cell transplant.