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    abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents)...
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  • Anti-Cancer Drugs is an international medical journal, which aims to promote and encourage research on anti-cancer agents. It was first published in 1990...
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  • promise to provide alternatives to platinum-based drugs for anticancer therapy. No ruthenium anti-cancer drug has been commercialized. Since 1979, when Cisplatin...
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  • Platinum-based antineoplastic drugs (informally called platins) are chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer. Their active moieties are coordination...
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  • Medicinal uses of fungi (category Cancer)
    develop prescription drugs. Compounds successfully developed into drugs or under research include antibiotics, anti-cancer drugs, cholesterol and ergosterol...
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  • in which anti-cancer drugs are administered in a lower dose than the maximum tolerated dose repetitively over a long period to treat cancers with fewer...
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    that the Fc region of anti-PD-1 drugs can bind Fc receptors expressed by tumor-associated macrophages. This process removes the drugs from their intended...
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  • although some toxicity has been seen in other tissues as well. Other anti-cancer drugs, such as fluoropyrimidines and taxanes, are extremely effective at...
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  • candidates for anti-cancer therapies. Likewise, test molecules that inhibit tumor cell migration may also have potential as anti-cancer drugs. Matrigel is...
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    sources of anti-cancer agents are plants, the derivatives of which have been shown to be usable for the treatment or prevention of cancer in humans. In...
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    of anti-cancer drugs in certain types of cancers. It selectively increases chemosensitivity of nutrient receptors, on or inside cancer cells, to anti-cancer...
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    investigated for use as anti-cancer drugs. They direct a host's immune system, more specifically the T cells' cytotoxic activity, against cancer cells. BiTE is...
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    currently used in the treatment of cancer. These include etoposide and teniposide. They act as anti-cancer drugs by inhibiting topoisomerase II. Podophyllotoxin...
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  • Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) are members of a therapeutic drug class which reduces pain, decreases inflammation, decreases fever, and...
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    tubulin inhibitor, is a drug that inhibits mitosis, or cell division, and is used in treating cancer, gout, and nail fungus. These drugs disrupt microtubules...
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    ALK inhibitors are anti-cancer drugs that act on tumours with variations of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) such as an EML4-ALK translocation. They fall...
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  • Beacon Pharmaceuticals (category Specialty drugs)
    export of anti-cancer drugs". The Financial Express. Dhaka. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016. "Anti-cancer drugs now made...
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    inhibitor drugs (such as pyrimethamine, trimetrexate, and piritrexim and the antibiotics Iclaprim and trimethoprim). Some have been patented as anti-cancer drugs...
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  • director of the National Cancer Institute. In April 2019, Sharpless left NCI to serve as the acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs. He returned to the institute...
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    and camptothecin, two anti-cancer drugs considered standard in the treatment to fight ovarian, breast, lung and colon cancers. In 2000, Wani received...
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  • for administration to humans (for example, antibodies developed as anti-cancer drugs). Humanization can be necessary when the process of developing a specific...
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    Antibody–drug conjugates or ADCs are a class of biopharmaceutical drugs designed as a targeted therapy for treating cancer. Unlike chemotherapy, ADCs...
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  • class of anti-cancer drugs. At least three Hedgehog pathway inhibitors have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for cancer treatment...
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    high-risk receive higher drug doses of these drugs, plus additional drugs. CNS prophylaxis (preventive therapy) to stop cancer from spreading to the brain...
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  • metastasize. In addition to their use as anti-cancer drugs, angiogenesis inhibitors are being investigated for their use as anti-obesity agents, as blood vessels...
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    served as the principal investigator on clinical trials of novel anti-cancer drugs and assisted heavily in the discovery of the unexpected sudden death...
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  • for anti-cancer drugs. Unfortunately, Myc possesses several features that have rendered it difficult to drug to date, such that any anti-cancer drugs aimed...
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  • different tissues and organs to anti-tumor drugs contributes to this challenge. For example, the blood–brain barrier blocks many drugs that may otherwise be effective...
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  • hematology/oncology division. He specializes in pancreatic cancer. His research has included development of anti-cancer drugs such as erlotinib, nab-paclitaxel and temsirolimus...
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  • tumour and the role of microbial infection--possibilities for cancer treatment". Anti-Cancer Drugs. 27 (4): 269–77. doi:10.1097/CAD.0000000000000337. PMC 4777220...
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