The marketing experience Amgen has garnered from selling Epogen, an anemia treatment that was biotech's first blockbuster, and Neupogen, a drug used to ease the side effects of chemotherapy, certainly won't hurt either.
The technology of immunotherapy, namely Provenge at this time, affords my patients 4 months increased MEDIAN (not average) survival time over the best known chemo regimen, without the morbidity of the side effects of chemotherapy.
Erbitux's rejection thrust Iressa into first place in the race to bring to market a new class of cancer drugs that disrupt cellular growth--without the wretched side effects of chemotherapy.
Dr Sze said Onyx-015 may offer an effective way to treat the cancer without the side-effects of chemotherapy.
To avoid the side effects of ongoing chemotherapy, Parles, a librarian by profession, then immersed herself in cancer research.
Cancer researchers say the drug is an important step forward because it delivers more medication while reducing the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapy.
Just a few years ago researchers had naively hoped that they could design a drug to blast a single cancer-causing protein and send the disease into remission for years without forcing the patient to endure the side effects of prolonged toxic chemotherapy.
It doesn't cure the cancer but has kept it at bay for almost five years, without the severe side effects and clinic visits of regular chemotherapy.
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One way to do that is to increase the effectiveness of old chemotherapy drugs by reducing toxic side effects.
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When she started chemotherapy for colon cancer, the side effects included a "nuclear implosion" of nausea.
Traditional chemotherapy indiscriminately kills cells in the affected area of the body, which can cause side effects like fatigue, hair loss or nausea.
Patients treated with the NovoTTF-100A System experienced a slightly higher incidence of neurological side effects including convulsions and headaches compared to patients receiving chemotherapy.
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