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2. Trepanning - Wikipedia

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   Detail from The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting trepanation (c. 1488–1516). Trepanning, also known as trepanation, trephination, trephining or making a burr hole (the verb trepan derives from Old French from Medieval Latin trepanum from Greek trúpanon, literally "borer, auger"), [1] [2] is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or ...

3. Timeline of cancer treatment development - Wikipedia

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   1900 – Swedish Dr. Stenbeck cures a skin cancer with small doses of radiation [4]; 1920s – Dr. William B. Coley's immunotherapy treatment, regressed tumors in hundreds of cases, the success of Coley's Toxins attracted heavy resistance from his rival and supervisor, Dr. James Ewing, who was an ardent supporter of radiation therapy for cancer.

4. History of cancer chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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   They have also proved effective in the adjuvant setting, in reducing the risk of recurrence after surgery for high-risk breast cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer, among others. The overall impact of chemotherapy on cancer survival can be difficult to estimate, since improved cancer screening, prevention (e.g. anti-smoking campaigns), and ...

5. Cancer immunotherapy - Wikipedia

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   An oncolytic virus is a virus that preferentially infects and kills cancer cells. As the infected cancer cells are destroyed by oncolysis, they release new infectious virus particles or virions to help destroy the remaining tumour. Oncolytic viruses are thought not only to cause direct destruction of the tumour cells, but also to stimulate host ...

6. Immunotherapy - Wikipedia

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   The cells are expanded non-specifically and/or stimulated. The cells are then reinfused and produce an immune response against the tumour cells. [34] The technique has been tested on refractory stage IV metastatic melanomas [33] and advanced skin cancer. [35] [36] [37] The first FDA-approved CAR-T drug, Kymriah, used this approach. To obtain ...

7. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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   There are a few possible causes of resistance in cancer, one of which is the presence of small pumps on the surface of cancer cells that actively move chemotherapy from inside the cell to the outside. Cancer cells produce high amounts of these pumps, known as p-glycoprotein, in order to protect themselves from chemotherapeutics. Research on p ...

8. Could an FDA-approved cancer drug help stop Parkinson's ... - AOL

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   “The exciting discovery is that Lag3 is already the target of an FDA-approved cancer drug called nivolumab/relatlimab, which uses antibodies to block the activity of Lag3,” the study authors ...

9. Cancer treatment - Wikipedia

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   Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment. [1] Treatments can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy including small-molecule drugs or monoclonal antibodies, [2] and PARP inhibitors such as olaparib. [3]