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Cytotoxic Defined

Toxic to cells. Refers to drugs used in chemotherapy to kill or slow down the growth of cancer cells.

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New Therapies Increasingly Being Used to Treat Liver Cancer

Published August 27, 2008, 6:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

According to Millennium Research Group's US Markets for Transcatheter Embolization and Occlusion Devices 2008 report, embolization particle therapies such as radioembolization spheres are increasingly being used to treat liver cancer.

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Knowing When to Treat or Let Go

Published August 25, 2008, 8:44 pm, The Lakeland Ledger

Thirty years ago Forbes Hill of Brooklyn, N.Y., learned he had prostate cancer. At age 50, with a young wife and a fear of the common side effects of treatment - incontinence and impotence - he chose what oncologists call "watchful waiting." For 12 years, Hill was fine. Then in 1990 his PSA count, a measure of cancer activity, began to rise, and...

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Knowing when it's really time to let go

Published August 25, 2008, 11:39 am, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Thirty years ago Forbes Hill of Brooklyn, N.Y., learned he had prostate cancer. At age 50, with a young wife and a fear of the common side effects of treatment - incontinence and impotence - he chose what oncologists call "watchful waiting." For 12 years, Hill was fine. Then in 1990 his PSA count, a measure of cancer activity, began to rise, and he had radiation therapy. That dropped the count ...

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VIDAZA(R) Receives Expanded FDA Approval to Include Overall Survival in Higher-Risk MDS

Published August 21, 2008, 8:44 am, Centre Daily Times

Celgene Corporation (Nasdaq:CELG) today announced VIDAZA (azacitidine) received expanded U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to reflect new overall survival achieved in the AZA-001 survival study of patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). This expanded indication supplements the 2004 FDA authorization of VIDAZA as the first therapy approved in the U.S. for the ...

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VIDAZA(R) Receives Expanded FDA Approval to Include Overall Survival in Higher-Risk MDS

Published August 21, 2008, 4:30 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

SUMMIT, N.J.----Celgene Corporation today announced VIDAZA received expanded U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to reflect new overall survival achieved in the AZA-001 survival study of patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes .

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  • Graviola tree - Gravizon Amazon Herb Company: Graviola - A medium size shrub growing in the Amazon. Has delicious fruit called pawpaw, which is widely consumed by indigenous people. The leaf of the graviola tree contains compounds with cytotoxic activity and prevents abnormal cellular division.

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  • Chemotherapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day use, it refers primarily to cytotoxic drugs used to treat cancer. In its non-oncologica l use, the term may also refer to antibiotics (antibacterial chemotherapy). In tha

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  • ScienceDaily: How The Body's T Cells React To Parasitic Diseases: Chagas Disease is a tropical parasitic disease that sickens as many as 18 million people a year, mostly in the Americas, and kills 50,000 of those. The parasite that carries it, T. cruzi, is transmitted to mammals and humans through the bite of several ge

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