Medical care consumption in a phase III trial comparing irinotecan with infusional 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer after 5-FU failure.

abstract：:Dihydroartemisinin (DHA), a semisynthetic derivative of artemisinin, has recently shown antitumor activity in various cancer cells. Its effect on pancreatic cancer is, however, unknown and the mechanism is unclear. The study aims to investigate its antitumor activity and underlying mechanisms in human pancreatic cance...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Chen H,Sun B,Pan S,Jiang H,Sun X

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five consecutive patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) (n = 57) were treated with a combination of levofolinic acid (I-FA) 100 mg/m2 plus 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) 340 mg/m2 i.v. on day 1-3, cyclophosphamide (CTX) 600 mg/m2 i.v. on day 1 and mitoxantrone (DHAD) 12 mg/m2 i.v. on day 1. DHAD dose was progressiv...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Colucci G,Giotta F,Gebbia V,Riccardi F,Pezzella G,Durini E,Caruso M,Romito S,Gebbia N

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the clinical activity and safety of twice-weekly paclitaxel and cisplatin combined with 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin (TP-HDFL) in patients with recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. The regimen, composed of paclitaxel 35 mg/m 1-h intravenous infusion on days 1, 4, 8 and 11; c...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Lin CC,Yeh KH,Yang CH,Hsu C,Tsai YC,Hsu WL,Cheng AL,Hsu CH

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is considered the number one killer among all cancers. Recent observations have altered the treatment paradigm for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The discovery of activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor and anaplastic lymphoma kinase positivity has made personalized treatment for ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Petrosyan F,Daw H,Haddad A,Spiro T

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 70-year-old patient affected by metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. He underwent radical prostatectomy in 2007 and subsequent adjuvant radiotherapy and hormonal therapy for 2 years. In 2011, he developed bilateral lung metastases, and therefore he received chemotherapy (eight cycl...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Bolzacchini E,Patriarca C,Giordano M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The array of tools currently available and the aim of treatment make choosing the best therapeutic strategy in metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) an increasing challenge worldwide. We present the case of a 53-year-old man with metachronous metastases (liver-only metastatic disease) treated with FOLFOXIRI as first-line...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Rizzo A,Palloni A,Frega G,Abbati F,De Lorenzo S,Brocchi S,Brandi G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-carboline alkaloids are naturally existing plant substances. It is known that these alkaloids have a wide spectrum of neuropharmacological, psychopharmacological, and antitumor effects. Therefore, they have been traditionally used in oriental medicine for the treatment of various diseases including cancers an...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Abe A,Yamada H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecteinascidin 743 (Et743) is an interesting compound in phase II/III clinical trials. Its chemistry is complex, its mechanism of action is original and it is active in human cancers, such as sarcomas refractory to conventional chemotherapy. The present review describes the discovery of the drug, its specific interacti...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Aune GJ,Furuta T,Pommier Y

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the mechanical and chemical properties of three commercially available microspheres loaded with irinotecan. LifePearl (200 µm), DC Bead (100-300 µm), and Tandem (100 µm) microspheres were loaded with irinotecan. For loading, elution, and stability determinations, irinotecan concentrations were quantified us...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Pereira PL,Plotkin S,Yu R,Sutter A,Wu Y,Sommer CM,Cruise GM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer always ranks first in the number of cancer deaths every year, accounting for 18.4% of total cancer deaths in 2018. Metastasis is the main cause of death in lung cancer patients. The identification of bioactive components of traditional Chinese medicine is very important for the development of novel reagent...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Ni L,Li Z,Shi X,Yao C,Sun J,Ai M,Li S,Liu Y,Xu F,Zhou Y,Li J,Qiu L

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trastuzumab, a humanized anti-human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 antibody drug, is the first-line therapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast and gastric cancer. For breast cancer, the benefit of continuous treatment with trastuzumab after it becomes refractory to first-line therapy has ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Shu S,Yamashita-Kashima Y,Yanagisawa M,Nakanishi H,Kodera Y,Harada N,Yoshimura Y

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies have shown that arsenic trioxide (As2O3), a novel anti-cancer agent, may be active against urothelial carcinomas. A series of bladder urothelial carcinoma cells with progressive As2O3 resistance were established and studied to reveal molecular events in relation to the mechanisms of resistance to ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Hour TC,Huang CY,Lin CC,Chen J,Guan JY,Lee JM,Pu YS

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallbladder carcinoma is the most common malignancy of the biliary tract and is associated with a very poor outcome. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of oxymatrine (OM) on gallbladder cancer cells and the possible mechanism of its effects. The effects of OM on the proliferation of gallbladde...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Wu XS,Yang T,Gu J,Li ML,Wu WG,Weng H,Ding Q,Mu JS,Bao RF,Shu YJ,Cao Y,Wang XA,Ding QC,Dong P,Xie SF,Liu YB

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to potentiate the cytotoxic effects of melphalan through pharmacological and physical modulators. The combination of the cytotoxic agent with ethacrynic acid, a glutathione-S-transferase pi (GST pi) inhibitor, or topotecan, a topoisomerase I inhibitor, or mild hyperthermia was investig...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Supino R,Caserini C,Orlandi L,Zaffaroni N,Silvestrini R,Vaglini M,Zunino F

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently established that NCPMF-60, a newly synthesized flavonoid, is an active cytotoxic component. The molecular mechanisms by which NCPMF-60 exerts its cytotoxic activity are currently unknown. In this study, we show that NCPMF-60 induces G2/M phase arrest and apoptosis in human hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2 ce...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Dai QS,Liu W,Wang XB,Lu N,Gong DD,Kong LY,Guo QL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is one of the most frequent malignancies of the adults. Its incidence has been increasing steadily by 2-4% each year. Up to 30% of patients present with metastases at diagnosis. It is a highly vascularized cancer because of the hypoxia-induced factor stabilization as a consequence of von Hip...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Nigro O,Pastore A,Tartaro T,Bolzacchini E,Tuzi A,Pinotti G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic meningioma is a rare disease, which has no effective chemotherapy. We report on a treatment of this condition with Doxil, a liposomal doxorubicin formulation. A 60-year-old woman with massive pleuro-pulmonary metastases from recurrent cranial meningioma was treated with Doxil (50-37.5 mg/m2) for 18 months w...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Travitzky M,Libson E,Nemirovsky I,Hadas I,Gabizon A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is an enzyme responsible for telomere maintenance in almost all human cancer cells, but generally not expressed in somatic ones. Therefore, antitelomerase therapy is a potentially revolutionary therapeutic strategy, and the antitumor activity of telomerase inhibitors (TI) has been studied extensively recent...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Morais KS,Guimarãesb AFR,Ramos DAR,Silva FP,de Oliveira DM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glassy cell carcinoma (GCC) of the uterine cervix is a highly malignant tumor and has a poor prognosis. As yet, no effective systemic chemotherapy to this tumor has been reported. Here we describe a case of recurrent GCC that responded to paclitaxel and carboplatin combination treatment. The patient, a 32-year-old wom...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Hirashima Y,Kobayashi H,Nishiguchi T,Miura K,Kanayama N

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine alkaloid meridianin G derivatives, substituted on the pyrimidine ring by aryl groups, were evaluated for their kinase inhibitory potencies and their in-vitro antiproliferative activities. The derivatives were tested toward a panel of nine protein kinases (KDR, IGF-1R, c-Met, RET, c-Src, c-Abl, PKA, CDK2/cyclin ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Rossignol E,Debiton E,Fabbro D,Moreau P,Prudhomme M,Anizon F

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard-of-care for advanced small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is chemotherapy with cisplatin+etoposide (C+E). Most patients have chemosensitive disease at the outset, but disease frequently relapses and limits survival. Efforts to improve therapeutic outcomes in SCLC and other neuroendocrine cancers have focused on ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Balasubramaniam S,Redon CE,Peer CJ,Bryla C,Lee MJ,Trepel JB,Tomita Y,Rajan A,Giaccone G,Bonner WM,Figg WD,Fojo T,Piekarz RL,Bates SE

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmoid tumour/aggressive fibromatosis (DT/AF) is a rare soft-tissue neoplasm that is locally aggressive but does not metastasize. There is no standard systemic treatment for symptomatic patients, although a number of agents are used. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors have recently been reported to show useful activity. We r...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Szucs Z,Messiou C,Wong HH,Hatcher H,Miah A,Zaidi S,van der Graaf WT,Judson I,Jones RL,Benson C

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent study we demonstrated that recombinant human growth hormone (r-hGH; Saizen) delayed tumor-induced cachexia in human tumor xenografts in vivo. Such a therapeutic effect could have a great impact in the supportive care of advanced cancer patients. Before large clinical studies are initiated possible growth s...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Fiebig HH,Dengler W,Hendriks HR

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalous gene regulation, dictated by epigenetic modifications, is a universal characteristic of cancer cells. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are an important class of enzymes that influence gene expression by the removal of acetyl groups from histones leading to chromatin remodeling and transcriptional suppression of ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Jazirehi AR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taxol is an antitumor drug which, as its mechanism of action, promotes microtubule assembly in vitro. Camptothecin (CPT) is an anticancer agent with the peculiar mechanism of poisoning eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase I. Both drugs are in clinical trials and their chemotherapeutic efficacy seems promising in refractory hu...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Debernardis D,Cimoli G,Parodi S,Russo P

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a rare clinical and biological entity. HUS has been reported after several anticancer chemotherapies and most often after mitomycin C-based chemotherapy regimens. Little information is available concerning the occurrence and outcome of this syndrome after administration of more recen...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Gross M,Hiesse C,Kriaa F,Goldwasser F

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A functionalized poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) nanocarrier was designed and prepared to deliver anticancer drugs. The nanocarrier is a copolymer with a core-shell structure with 3.0 G PAMAM as the core and sequentially conjugated poly(2-(N,N-diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (pDEA) and methoxy-poly(ethylene glycol) 2000 (mP...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Du L,Jin Y,Yang J,Wang S,Wang X

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of our study was to determine whether an apoptosis assay used after short-term drug exposure could predict selective toxicity to cancer cells. To this end we compared the effect of eight anticancer drugs and 10 toxic compounds without known antitumor activity in cultures of human breast cancer cells and norma...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Frankfurt OS,Krishan A

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of DNA fragments circulating in cancer patients was described a number of years ago. The mere presence of DNA in the circulation is not indicative of cancer. However, there are reports that apoptosis and necrosis of the cancer cells can increase the levels of circulating DNA. The study of plasma DNA with ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Shao ZM,Nguyen M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify the most potent quinoline-based anti-infectives for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) and to understand the molecular mechanisms. A small-scale screen against a panel of marketed quinoline-based drugs was performed in MM cell lines. Cell apoptosis was examined by flow cytomet...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Mao H,Du Y,Zhang Z,Cao B,Zhao J,Zhou H,Mao X

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00