Genta argues that patients given only chemotherapy, but not Genasense, lived longer than expected.
But now she was facing the prospect of chemotherapy alongside a high-profile legal battle.
The week of her court hearing, days after entering a not-guilty plea, Dunn began a round of chemotherapy.
In one study, 637 patients received standard chemotherapy plus radiation, and half also received Avastin.
Weapons in the game include chemotherapy, cancer drugs and cells in the body's own immune system.
When used in conjunction with chemotherapy, it can prolong the life of patients with breast cancer.
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Denton's physicians decided that she would receive chemotherapy during pregnancy and a mastectomy after the birth.
Most forms of chemotherapy are also -- surprisingly -- considered to be relatively safe.
She refused more heavy-duty chemotherapy and faced the fact she was going to die.
Seven-year-old Neon Roberts has completed his course of radiotherapy and will start chemotherapy next month.
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He was later also diagnosed with cancer of the liver, and underwent chemotherapy and surgery.
The patients who got the chemotherapy more often were less likely to see their cancer return.
Simons, a 63-year-old immunogeneticist recently made bald by chemotherapy, sat down, a bit shaken.
Company researchers hoped to gain approval to treat late-stage patients who weren't helped by current chemotherapy.
One type of chemotherapy works about 6% of the time in late-stage lung cancer.
And I've taught the Oncology Nursing Society's chemotherapy class to thousands of nurses around the country.
The next stage was having chemotherapy - and that was "pretty hideous", she says.
Doctors considered the procedure a success, and Kennedy underwent follow-up radiation treatments and chemotherapy.
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When she started chemotherapy for colon cancer, the side effects included a "nuclear implosion" of nausea.
Unlike most chemotherapy drugs, which have to be injected, ZD1839 was a convenient once-a-day pill.
Your doctor recommends, based on your family history and drug tolerance, a specific course of chemotherapy.
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Her team are currently testing new chemotherapy drugs studying their effect in a whole organism.
Chemotherapy and other treatments only shrink tumors in 10 to 15 percent of cases.
The brain tumor is highly resistant to standard treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
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Patients in the study were randomly assigned to receive either the NovoTTF-100A System or chemotherapy treatment.
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Doctors had told her Avastin together with chemotherapy drug Taxol could prolong her life.
Its lead drug to treat chemotherapy side effects failed, and the Bayer deal yielded nothing fast.
"We want to eliminate the need for toxic chemotherapy, radiation or debilitating surgery, " he says.
By this point, Sara had undergone three rounds of chemotherapy with limited, if any, effect.
Her chemotherapy started in April and her radiation from July through the first week of September.
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