Indolent NHL is a slow-growing form of lymphoma. It encompasses what had been called low-grade NHL and some categories of intermediate-grade NHL. Depending on the type of cancer, patients today often live years without a lot of treatment. The usual strategy had been to wait until symptoms were manifested to a large degree before treatment [...]
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The practice of treating patients with relatively nonspecific cytotoxic compounds, such as chemotherapy, is now being complemented by a new era of targeted lymphoma drug development. Researchers are now able to identify a wide array of molecular targets and agents. The new agents include several broad classes of drugs that: modulate or change the expression [...]
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Standard Therapy At its most fundamental level, cancer has emerged as a disease of genes and DNA, and the entire message can now be interpreted with the aid of sophisticated techniques in molecular and cellular biology.
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OVERVIEW Lymphomas represent about 4% of the new cases of cancer diagnosed in the U.S. each year. They constitute the fifth most common cancer diagnosis and the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths. In fact, although the incidence of most cancers is decreasing, lymphoma is one of only two tumors that are increasing in frequency. [...]
Median durations of response in the overall population were 5.7 months in the combination arm and 4.2 months in the monotherapy arm. Compared with patients receiving cetuximab alone, the cetuximab/irinotecan patients experienced a significantly longer median time to disease progression.
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Capecitabine. An alternative strategy to modulating 5-FU-based chemotherapy has been established through the development of oral fluoropyrimidine analogues. Capecit-abine (Xeloda, Roche), a fluoropyrimidine carbamate with antineoplastic activity, is an orally administered systemic prodrug of 5′-deoxy-5-fluorouridine, which is converted in the body to 5-FU.
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Surgery for Colon Cancer Surgical removal of the involved segment of colon (colec-tomy), along with its blood supply and regional lymph nodes, is the primary therapy for colon cancer. The conventional and accepted treatment for curative resection of colon cancer is laparotomy with hemicolectomy for right-sided or left-sided lesions . The technique of colon resection [...]
