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  2. Dose-dense chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    For example, in standard treatment of ovarian cancer, paclitaxel is given at 175 mg/m 2 body surface every three weeks. In dose dense therapy paclitaxel is given at 50–80 mg/m 2 every week (150–240 mg/m 2 in 3-weeks). [2]

  3. Breast cancer chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    These may include chemotherapy given in the dose dense fashion i.e. 2-weekly instead of 3-weekly or TAC chemotherapy (see above). [ 10 ] In women with operable early breast cancer, taxane-containing adjuvant chemotherapy regimens have been found to improve overall survival and disease-free survival.

  4. Paclitaxel - Wikipedia

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    Paclitaxel, sold under the brand name Taxol among others, is a chemotherapy medication used to treat ovarian cancer, esophageal cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, cervical cancer, and pancreatic cancer. [11] It is administered by intravenous injection. [11] There is also an albumin-bound formulation. [11]

  5. Health care prices in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For scale, cutting administrative costs to peer country levels would represent roughly one-third to half the gap. A 2009 study from Price Waterhouse Coopers estimated $210 billion in savings from unnecessary billing and administrative costs, a figure that would be considerably higher in 2015 dollars. [50] Cost variation across hospital regions.

  6. Maintenance dose - Wikipedia

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    In pharmacokinetics, a maintenance dose is the maintenance rate [mg/h] of drug administration equal to the rate of elimination at steady state. This is not to be confused with dose regimen , which is a type of drug therapy in which the dose [mg] of a drug is given at a regular dosing interval on a repetitive basis.

  7. Therapeutic index - Wikipedia

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    The therapeutic index (TI; also referred to as therapeutic ratio) is a quantitative measurement of the relative safety of a drug with regard to risk of overdose.It is a comparison of the amount of a therapeutic agent that causes toxicity to the amount that causes the therapeutic effect. [1]

  8. Low-dose chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Low-dose chemotherapy is being studied/used in the treatment of cancer to avoid the side effects of conventional chemotherapy. Historically, oncologists have used the highest possible dose that the body can tolerate in order to kill as many cancer cells as possible. [1] After high-dose treatments, the body reacts, sometimes quite severely.

  9. Protein-bound paclitaxel - Wikipedia

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    Protein-bound paclitaxel, also known as nanoparticle albumin–bound paclitaxel or nab-paclitaxel, is an injectable formulation of paclitaxel used to treat breast cancer, lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, among others. Paclitaxel kills cancer cells by preventing the normal breakdown of microtubules during cell division.