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unusual facts about Chemotherapy


Grant Wistrom

To help prepare the child for the loss of his hair during treatment, Grant, and Nebraska teammates Jason Peter and Jared Tomich, included Kendall in their pre-game ritual of shaving their heads and presented him with an honorary blackshirt jersey.


ADH-1

In a pilot study (phase I trial) at Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, ADH-1 intravenous pretreatment before chemotherapy in metastatic melanoma completely destroyed tumors in half the patients, normally a very deadly cancer.

Betapoietin

Betapoietin is the trade name of erythropoietin beta made by CinnaGen and Zahravi, a hormone treatment for anaemia and sometimes used in chemotherapy

Castleman's disease

Treatment modalities include antiviral drugs such as ganciclovir for human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV-8), chemotherapy, corticosteroids, immunomodulators, monoclonal antibodies against IL-6, and thalidomide.

Cetuximab

Cetuximab is indicated for the treatment of patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-expressing, KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), in combination with chemotherapy, and as a single agent in patients who have failed oxaliplatin- and irinotecan-based therapy and who are intolerant to irinotecan.

Cirencester House

The tonne of clippings produced by its annual trimming are sold to pharmaceutical companies who use extracts as a key ingredient of Docetaxel, a chemotherapy drug used to treat breast, ovarian and lung cancer.

Cis–trans isomerism

The cis isomer, whose full name is cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), was shown in 1969 by Barnett Rosenberg to have antitumor activity, and is now a chemotherapy drug known by the short name cisplatin.

Craig L. Hill

Professor Hill’s research encompasses fundamental structural and reactivity studies, Catalysis, functional nanomaterials (Nanotechnology), antiviral chemotherapy and solar energy conversion (Artificial Photosynthesis).

Detonation nanodiamond

Prof. Dean Ho, Dr. Houjin Huang, and Dr. Erik Pierstorff at Northwestern University, in collaboration with Dr. Eiji Osawa at The NanoCarbon Research Institute in Japan, have demonstrated that nanomaterials can shuttle chemotherapy drugs to cells without producing the negative effects of today's delivery agents.

DXR

Doxorubicin, an anthracycline antibiotic used in cancer chemotherapy.

Eleutherococcus senticosus

In Chinese herbology, E. senticosis is used by people with bone marrow suppression caused by chemotherapy or radiation, angina, hypercholesterolemia, and neurasthenia with headache, insomnia, and poor appetite.

Enocitabine

Enocitabine (INN, marketed under the brand name Sunrabin) is a nucleoside analog used as chemotherapy.

George Whyte-Watson

Whyte-Watson was perhaps best known for his pioneer work in collaboration with his pathologist colleague Professor Robert Lowry Turner, in the treatment of breast cancer after their researches in the use of chemotherapy, and he wrote a number of papers on the subject.

Gillian Coultard

In May 2005 Coultard was diagnosed with breast cancer, which was successfully treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radium therapy.

Ian Handysides

After a course of chemotherapy, he appeared to be recovering well, however this then spread to his spine and he died in Solihull on 17 August 1990, when still only 27 years old.

Intas Biopharmaceuticals

Erythropoietin injection, under the brand name of Erykine, for anemia due to critical illness like chemotherapy, was introduced in Aug 2005 and Interferon α2b, under the brand name of Intalfa, was launched in April 2007.

Kerstin Cook

Prior to finals night, Cook discovered her grandmother in Cambridge had a cancer recurrence, and would have to undergo chemotherapy.

Kurloff cells

Paul Ehrlich, German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy

Leone J. Peters

He supported many charitable organizations and institutions, including the Chemotherapy Foundation of New York, the American Cancer Society, the Boy Scouts of America, Skidmore College, Lehigh University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Locks of Love

All American football player (and Chicago Bears first-round draft pick) Gabe Carimi's maternal uncle suffered from leukemia as a child, underwent chemotherapy while he was in second grade, and lost his hair in the process.

Lucio Rodrigues

In 2007 at only 27 years of age, Lucio discovered that he had a cancer of lymphatic system also known as Hodgkin's lymphoma and had to start a gruelling course of chemotherapy.

Mir-451 microRNA

miR-451 regulates the drug-transporter protein P-glycoprotein, potentially promoting resistance to the chemotherapy drug Paclitaxel.

Mistletoe

Public interest in the United States was spurred in 2001 following actress Suzanne Somers' decision to use Iscador in lieu of chemotherapy following her treatment for breast cancer using surgery and radiotherapy.

Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis

NEH has been reported in patients with cancer who have not received any form of chemotherapy (i.e., as a paraneoplastic syndrome), in patients with HIV and/or AIDS, and after the use of paracetamol (acetaminophen).

Olympic Cool-Cap system

Although doubt remains about the effectiveness of the Cool-Cap system on patients undergoing chemotherapy using Epirubicin and Docetaxel, studies suggest there is statistically significant, but marginal, decrease in hair loss in study participants.

Procarbazine

The first combination chemotherapy developed for Hodgkin's Lymphoma, MOPP also included Procarbazine (ABVD has supplanted MOPP as standard first line treatment for HL, with BEACOPP as an alternative for advanced/unfavorable HL).

Adult: as part of the BEACOPP chemotherapy regimen: 100 mg/m²/day given for 7 days.

Purdue Research Park

:Endocyte, a pharmaceutical company, is developing EC145 (Vintafolide), a candidate drug for use in chemotherapy-resistant patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.

Suzanne Segal

She entered the hospital on February 27, and doctors discovered a malignant brain tumor, having surgery but refusing chemotherapy or radiation.

Ted DeVita

While scientists and physicians tried all known treatments for his condition, Ted was isolated in Building 10, in a "laminar airflow room." This specialized room on "13-East" had been created in 1969 to protect leukemia patients whose immune systems had been compromised by chemotherapy.

Trisha Torrey

The impetus for Torrey's work in patient empowerment and patient advocacy stemmed from her diagnosis in 2004 of Subcutaneous T-cell lymphoma when she was told she had only months to live and was encouraged to undergo chemotherapy to treat it.

Vjekoslav Šutej

In August 2008 Šutej was diagnosed with myeloid leukemia and later underwent chemotherapy treatment and a bone marrow transplantation procedure at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.


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