Antioxidative potential of vitamin c against
chemotherapeutic agent mitomycin c induced genotoxicity in somatic and germ cells in mouse test model.
The use of laser therapy may also be able to reach the tumor by fibro optics and in conjunction with
chemotherapeutic agents may provide a better prognosis for patients with NPC.
"Recent research conducted by the United States National Cancer Institute and Cornell University demonstrated that administering reovirus in combination with various
chemotherapeutic agents potentiates, or enhances tumour-killing, thus preventing the cancer cells from developing drug resistance," said Dr.
The
chemotherapeutic agent Tamoxifen, used widely in the treatment of breast cancer, also decreases GC production in vinblastine-resistant cells.
Glial tumors can be resistant to chemotherapy from the time the person is diagnosed or can develop resistance from exposure to
chemotherapeutic agents (Prados & Levin, 2000).
Unfortunately, this therapeutic ideal is seldom attained because cancer cells naturally have certain means to resist the action of
chemotherapeutic agents. (5)
The chemical involved contained nitrogen, and it occurred to Ehrlich that if the similar but much more poisonous element arsenic were substituted for the nitrogen, it might prove a more effective
chemotherapeutic agent.
For more than four decades, the
chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin has been used to treat a number of human cancers, including that of the prostate.
The system is designed to deliver
chemotherapeutic agent Melophan to the liver for cancer patients who have liver tumors that cannot be removed.
(Calgary, Canada) has been granted Canadian Patent 2,437,468 entitled "Sensitization of
Chemotherapeutic Agent Resistant Neoplastic Cells with Reovirus." The claims describe using a combination of reovirus and chemotherapy to treat cancer patients, and particularly those who are resistant to or may develop resistance to chemotherapeutic treatments.
An oral form of the
chemotherapeutic agent cladribine (Mylinax), produced by IVAX and Serono, has been tested preliminarily to determine if the oral form can achieve the blood levels obtainable with an intravenous preparation.
Currently, Marc Pharmaceuticals is working on a betulinol-based
chemotherapeutic agent to treat cancer and other life-threatening diseases.