chemotherapy
NHS offers new drug to stop children and teens losing hearing after chemotherapy
Posted in Medicine, Science on 31st Jan, 2025
by Alexander Muller
A first-of-its-kind drug that protects the hearing of babies, children and young people undergoing cancer treatment has been approved for NHS use in England, based on the results of one of trials.
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.