Efficacy and safety of anticancer drug combinations: a meta-analysis of randomized trials with a focus on immunotherapeutics and gene-targeted compounds. [PDF]
Hundreds of trials are being conducted to evaluate combination of newer targeted drugs as well as immunotherapy. Our aim was to compare efficacy and safety of combination versus single non-cytotoxic anticancer agents. We searched PubMed (01/01/2001 to 03/
Barkauskas, Donald A +4 more
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Combination Cancer Therapy and Reference Models for Assessing Drug Synergy in Glioblastoma
Glioblastoma is currently an incurable disease despite the development of a wide variety of therapeutic approaches, from surgical methods to immunotherapy.
Semyon A. Sinyavskiy +4 more
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PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY FOR LUNG CANCER: MAJOR INDICATIONS
Lung cancer treatment remains a major challenge for modern oncology. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has proved to be an effective anti-tumor treatment modality for patients with lung cancer. This paper evaluated results of using PDT for lung cancer patients.
Yu. A. Ragulin, V. N. Galkin
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A Systematic Review of therapeutic agents for the treatment of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) [PDF]
Background The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first described in 2012 and attracted a great international attention due to multiple healthcare associated outbreaks.
Al-Ali, Anfal Y. +2 more
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Omadacycline Potentiates Clarithromycin Activity Against Mycobacterium abscessus
Mycobacterium abscessus is a difficult respiratory pathogen to treat, when compared to other nontuberculus mycobacteria (NTM), due to its drug resistance.
Bui Thi Bich Hanh +7 more
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Synthetic Lethality of Chk1 Inhibition Combined with p53 and/or p21 Loss During a DNA Damage Response in Normal and Tumor Cells [PDF]
Cell cycle checkpoints ensure genome integrity and are frequently compromised in human cancers. A therapeutic strategy being explored takes advantage of checkpoint defects in p53-deficient tumors in order to sensitize them to DNA-damaging agents by ...
A Besson +43 more
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ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie +4 more
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Untreated infective endocarditis (IE) is uniformly fatal. The practice of combination antibiotic therapy for IE is recommended by treatment guidelines but largely unsupported by high-quality evidence.
Parisa Farahani +8 more
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Molecular profiling of cancer patients enables personalized combination therapy: the I-PREDICT study
Cancer treatments have evolved from indiscriminate cytotoxic agents to selective genome- and immune-targeted drugs that have transformed the outcomes of some malignancies1. Tumor complexity and heterogeneity suggest that the ‘precision medicine’ paradigm
J. Sicklick +19 more
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Local Lung Targeting of Tumor Associated Macrophages Combined with Cytoreductive Therapy Decrease Tumor Burden in a Secondary Lung Cancer Model [PDF]
Backgrounds. The efficacy of a locally administered small molecule colony stimulating factor 1 receptor inhibitor (CSF-1Ri), PLX3397, alone or in combination with cytoreductive therapy (paclitaxel) in reducing the tumor burden of an in vivo model of ...
Alhudaithi, Sulaiman +6 more
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