BMC Gastroenterology, 2018 Background For patients with advanced gastric cancer (AGC), second-line chemotherapy regimen remains controversial. The efficacy and safety of irinotecan-containing doublet treatment and irinotecan monotherapy were compared in this systematic analysis ...
Liuting Yang +7 more
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Association between a single nucleotide polymorphism in the R3HCC1 gene and irinotecan toxicity
Cancer Medicine, 2023 Objective Irinotecan is a useful anticancer drug for colorectal cancer treatment. UGT1A1*28 and *6 gene polymorphisms are known risk factors for irinotecan‐associated toxicity.
Kou Kanesada +13 more
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Irinotecan (CPT-11) Treatment Induces Mild Gonadotoxicity
Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2022 Background:Gonadal toxicity following chemotherapy is an important issue among the population of young cancer survivors. The inhibitor of DNA topoisomerase I, irinotecan (CPT-11), is widely used for several cancer types.
Mattan Levi +4 more
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Low-Dose Continuous 5-Fluorouracil Combined with Leucovorin, nab-Paclitaxel, Oxaliplatin, and Bevacizumab for Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis. [PDF]
, 2018 BackgroundContinuous-infusion 5-fluorouracil (5FU) and calcium leucovorin plus nab-paclitaxel and oxaliplatin have been shown to be active in patients with pancreatic cancer.
Bedford, Rudolph +7 more
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Protective role of Lactobacillus plantarum A7 against irinotecan-induced genotoxicity [PDF]
Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine, 2016 Objective: Irinotecan is a botanical derivative and an anti-cancer drug with cytotoxic and genotoxic effects. The present study evaluated the effect of Lactobacillus plantarum A7 on the genotoxic activity of irinotecan in a hepatocellular carcinoma cell ...
Soheila Sepahi +4 more
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Cancer Communications, 2019 Background The 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin plus oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) regimen is the standard first-line treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), however, the optimal second-line regimen for KRAS wild-type mCRC patients is still investigational ...
Yuankai Shi +21 more
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The potential role and application of PARP inhibitors in cancer treatment [PDF]
, 2009 Background: Since many anti-cancer agents act by inflicting DNA damage on tumour cells, there is increasing interest in the use of inhibitors of DNA repair to increase the cytotoxicity of these agents.
Chalmers, Anthony J
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Anti epidermal growth factor receptor therapy in small bowel adenocarcinoma [PDF]
, 2018 Rationale:Small bowel adenocarcinoma (SBA) is an uncommon gastrointestinal cancer, thus limited data about treatment for advanced disease are available.
Anselmi, Elisabetta +4 more
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The combination of temozolomide-irinotecan regresses a doxorubicin-resistant patient-derived orthotopic xenograft (PDOX) nude-mouse model of recurrent Ewing's sarcoma with a FUS-ERG fusion and CDKN2A deletion: Direction for third-line patient therapy. [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of the present study was to determine the usefulness of a patient-derived orthotopic xenograft (PDOX) nude-mouse model of a doxorubicin-resistant metastatic Ewing's sarcoma, with a unique combination of a FUS-ERG fusion and CDKN2A deletion, to ...
Bouvet, Michael +20 more
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Durable response using regorafenib in an elderly patient with metastatic colorectal cancer: case report. [PDF]
, 2015 Regorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, was approved in September 2012 by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
Herman, June +3 more
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