My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
PULLMAN, Wash. – A common chemotherapy drug could carry a toxic inheritance for children and grandchildren of adolescent cancer survivors, Washington State University-led research indicates. The study, published online in iScience, found…
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the most effective treatment for pancreatic cancer ever recorded in mouse models. While most mouse trials consider simply halting growth a success, the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4v6dppRzQ&w=448&h=252&hd=1] Taste and Smell disorders in Chemotherapy alleviated by Lactoferrin Supplementation Taste and Smell disorders in Chemotherapy alleviated by Lactoferrin Supplementation Research shows that daily lactoferrin supplementation elicits changes in…
Public Release: 17-Sep-2014 The findings prompt the researchers to suggest that adding 'nutraceuticals' to chemotherapy cycles may improve the effectiveness of conventional drugs, particularly in hard to treat cancers, such…
Just a three-day course reduced the size of human prostate tumors grown in mice by an average of 50 percent within 30 days ‘Molecular grenade’ now in clinical trials for advanced cancer…
- As researchers tested the GLA against cells with high levels of FASN, they found GLA inhibited about 85 percent of cell growth, while gemcitabine alone, the standard chemotherapy for…
10 Feb 2012 "No mice survived in either case if treated only with chemotherapy" Fasting weakens cancer in mice New study finds that short fasting cycles can work as well…
30 JAN 2012 Ovarian cancer is a major cause of death worldwide. Approximately 25,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year and 15,000 women will die from it…
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 5-Jun-2014 While chemotherapy can save lives, it can also cause many side effects, including the depletion of immune cells. Also, even in the absence of chemotherapy, normal…
Public release date: 6-Sep-2011 Patients who have received high doses of chemotherapy may find it harder to express themselves verbally, according to new research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the…
Public release date: 22-Aug-2011 Researchers stress importance of implementing nurse safety measures around these highly toxic drugs ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Nearly 17 percent of nurses who work in outpatient…
Research from the University of Southampton has shown a drug, used in combination with chemotherapy to treat advanced colorectal cancer, is not effective in some settings, and indeed may result…
Public release date: 19-May-2011 Thomas Carey, Ph.D. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A primary reason that head and neck cancer treatments fail is the tumor cells become resistant to chemotherapy…
Public Release: 28-Mar-2014 UNC researchers show cancer chemotherapy accelerates 'molecular aging' Physicians have long suspected that chemotherapy can accelerate the aging process in patients treated for cancer. Using a test…
- Between 20-50% of patients with incurable cancers undergo chemotherapy within 30 days of death. - although most patients with metastatic cancer choose to receive chemotherapy, evidence suggests that most…
HRR: Beware COI - The bark of the Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense) - In a paper published today in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, the researchers show that the…
Public release date: 29-Sep-2010 - gray matter changes were most prominent in the areas of the brain that are consistent with cognitive dysfunction during and shortly after chemotherapy. Gray matter…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wURcMbgotnU] Highlights: - was also more potent than the chemotherapy we tested at one concentration." - grape seed taken orally significantly reduced inflammation and tissue damage caused by chemotherapy…
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 13-Feb-2014 - was also more potent than the chemotherapy we tested at one concentration." - grape seed taken orally significantly reduced inflammation and tissue damage caused by…
Contact: Phyllis Picklesimer p-pickle@illinois.edu 217-244-2827 University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. – Celery, artichokes, and herbs, especially Mexican oregano, all contain apigenin and luteolin,…
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