Gemcitabine: Progress in the treatment of pancreatic cancer [PDF]
Unresectable pancreatic cancer has a dismal prognosis with a median survival of 3-5 months in untreated disease. Since the introduction of gemcitabine, pancreatic cancer may no longer be regarded a chemotherapy-resistant tumor.
Heinemann, Volker
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Gemcitabine is widely used for pancreatic, lung, and bladder cancer. However, drug resistance against gemcitabine is a large obstacle to effective chemotherapy. Nucleoside transporters, nucleoside and nucleotide metabolic enzymes, and efflux transporters
Kentaro Minami +16 more
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Background Although gemcitabine has been considered as the first-line drug for advanced pancreatic cancer (PC), development of resistance to gemcitabine severely limits the effectiveness of this chemotherapy, and the underlying mechanism of gemcitabine ...
Jianyou Gu +12 more
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Pharmacogenomics and gemcitabine
Approximately half of lung cancer patients present with metastases, and a large proportion will develop recurrent disease, with median survival to cisplatin-based chemotherapy of 11 months. No predictive factor of response to cisplatin-based chemotherapy is yet available in clinical practice.
R, Rosell +4 more
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Role of gemcitabine in the treatment of advanced and metastatic breast cancer [PDF]
Gemcitabine is an antimetabolite drug with proven antitumor activity and tolerability in metastatic breast cancer. In a total of nine studies, gemcitabine monotherapy has reached response rates of up to 37% in the first-line setting, 26% in the second ...
Heinemann, Volker
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Gemcitabine and carboplatin in intensively pretreated patients with metastatic breast cancer [PDF]
Background: Patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) are increasingly exposed to anthracyclines and taxanes either during treatment of primary breast cancer or during initial therapy of metastatic disease.
Vehling-Kaiser, U. +13 more
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. Objective:. Pancreatic cancer (PC) is an aggressive cancer with ineffective treatment. Inhibition of stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) suppresses cancer proliferation and might act as a novel chemotherapy supplement, but this has not been investigated ...
Amon B. Hackney +4 more
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A rapid and systematic review of the clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of gemcitabine for the treatment of pancreatic cancer [PDF]
Background Pancreatic cancer is the eighth most common cancer in the UK and the sixth most common cause of cancer death; in 1998, 3198 men and 3364 women died from this condition. In an average health authority with a population of 500,000, there
Calvert, N +30 more
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A randomized multi-center phase II trial of the angiogenesis inhibitor Cilengitide (EMD 121974) and gemcitabine compared with gemcitabine alone in advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer [PDF]
Background Anti-angiogenic treatment is believed to have at least cystostatic effects in highly vascularized tumours like pancreatic cancer. In this study, the treatment effects of the angiogenesis inhibitor Cilengitide and gemcitabine were compared with
Castellano Daniel +98 more
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Are serial CA 19-9 kinetics helpful in predicting survival in patients with advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine and cisplatin? [PDF]
Background: Serial kinetics of serum CA 19-9 levels have been reported to reflect response and survival in patients with pancreatic cancer undergoing surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.
Stoffregen, C. +11 more
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