Science news articles about 'carboplatin'

... . Half the group was treated with gefitinib 250 mg/day or a combination of carboplatin and paclitaxel. Over 22 months of follow-up, the researchers found that gefitinib was more tolerable and ...

... trial, Italian researchers report. Their trial in 45 patients combined chemotherapy with fluorouracil and carboplatin given on weeks 1, 4 and 7 of treatment, with radiotherapy administered daily on ...

... chemotherapy regimens across three different patient groups. Smaller pilot studies have shown a carboplatin and vincristine (CV) regimen to be effective against low-grade glioma. However, the COG ...

... first reported study of these two targeted therapies (bevacizumab and cetuximab) with chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel), combined the four drugs as first-line therapy in advanced lung cancer ...

... , and some patients develop a resistance to it. Two drugs introduced later, carboplatin and oxaliplatin (which is used for colorectal cancer), overcame some of those problems, but their potency can ...

... treated in lab dishes with various combinations of the chemotherapeutic agents dasatinib, carboplatin and paclitaxel. "We found that the addition of dasatinib to standard therapy in the three cell ...

... of patients who had participated in a Fox Chase clinical trial that tested a combination of carboplatin, paclitaxel and cetuximab as first-line treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Out ...