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2. Treatment of lung cancer - Wikipedia

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   Chemotherapy for NSCLC usually includes combination of two drugs (chemotherapy doublet), with one of the agents is cisplatin or carboplatin. In 2002, Schiller at al. published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a study that compared four chemotherapy regimens for advanced NSCLC, cisplatin and paclitaxel, cisplatin and gemcitabine, cisplatin and docetaxel, and carboplatin and paclitaxel. [14]

3. Metronomic therapy - Wikipedia

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   Metronomic therapy was discovered to be effective in treatment of lung cancer as well, especially in metastatic non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). [20] There are a variety of drugs used for cancer treatment. Vinorelbine is one of the drugs that are used for cancer treatment.

4. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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   As most chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells in this manner, defective apoptosis allows survival of these cells, making them resistant. Many chemotherapy drugs also cause DNA damage, which can be repaired by enzymes in the cell that carry out DNA repair. Upregulation of these genes can overcome the DNA damage and prevent the induction of apoptosis.

5. U.S. cancer patients face nationwide shortages of life-saving ...

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   While Philadelphia's Kimmel Cancer Center has managed to avoid turning patients away, shortages are a persistent issue, affecting not only high-end platinum-based chemotherapy drugs but also other ...

6. List of antineoplastic agents - Wikipedia

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   Non-small cell lung cancer and pancreatic cancer. Skin reactions, diarrhoea, GI bleeds, anaemia, dehydration, interstitial lung disease (uncommon), hepatic failure (rare), hepatorenal syndrome (rare), GI perforation (rare) and ulcerative keratitis (rare). Gefitinib: PO: EGFR inhibitor. EGFR-mutation positive non-small cell lung cancer.

7. Chemotherapy regimen - Wikipedia

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   The first successful combination chemotherapy was MOPP, introduced in 1963 for lymphomas. The term "induction regimen" refers to a chemotherapy regimen used for the initial treatment of a disease. A "maintenance regimen" refers to the ongoing use of chemotherapy to reduce the chances of a cancer recurring or to prevent an existing cancer from ...