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By selectively targeting caPCNA, it may be possible to kill cancer cells without affecting healthy tissues. [5] In vitro testing demonstrated that AOH1996 inhibited the growth and induced cell cycle arrest and apoptotic cell death in a wide variety of cancer cell lines, but had no effect on several normal, nonmalignant cell types.
This is a list of chemotherapeutic agents, also known as cytotoxic agents or cytostatic drugs, that are known to be of use in chemotherapy for cancer.This list is organized by type of agent, although the subsections are not necessarily definitive and are subject to revision.
Counterfeit medications. A counterfeit medication or a counterfeit drug is a medication or pharmaceutical item which is produced and sold with the intent to deceptively represent its origin, authenticity, or effectiveness. A counterfeit drug may contain inappropriate quantities of active ingredients, or none, may be improperly processed within ...
breast cancer: Herceptin 6981 7013 9 bevacizumab: colon cancer: Avastin 6847 6686 10 rituximab: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: Rituxan, MabThera 6750 7298 11 rivaroxaban: anticoagulant: Xarelto 6589 6234 12 aflibercept: Eylea 6551 5830 13 infliximab: Remicade 5908 7152 14 Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: Prevnar 13 Prevenar 13 5802 5601 15 ustekinumab ...
August 8, 2024 at 7:46 AM. Endometrial cancer patients see new hope as FDA approves 'transforming' immunotherapy drug. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for ...
In 2013, more than 100 cancer specialists published a letter in Blood saying that the prices of many new cancer drugs, including imatinib, are so high that people in the United States could not afford them, and that the level of prices, and profits, was so high as to be immoral. Signatories of the letter included Brian Druker, Carlo Gambacorti ...
Thalidomide, sold under the brand names Contergan and Thalomid among others, is an oral medication used to treat a number of cancers ( e.g., multiple myeloma ), graft-versus-host disease, and many skin disorders ( e.g., complications of leprosy such as skin lesions ). [ 6][ 7][ 8] Thalidomide has been used to treat conditions associated with ...
June 18, 2024 at 3:06 AM. (Reuters) - AstraZeneca said on Tuesday its breast cancer drug, Truqap, in combination with chemotherapy agent, paclitaxel, did not meet its main goals in a late-stage ...