The marine alkaloid naamidine A promotes caspase-dependent apoptosis in tumor cells.

abstract：:Patients with metastatic squamous cell cancer of the head and neck (SCCHN) have a poor prognosis, with most patients surviving less than a year. Immunotherapy (IO) is changing the natural history of the disease and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors are showing notable improvements in survival with a more fa...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Cabezas-Camarero S,Cabrera-Martín MN,Pérez-Segura P

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of association of hyperthermia with the anti-inflammatory drug rhein (RH), 4,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid, on the clonogenic activity of human glioma cells has been examined. RH inhibits neoplastic growth mainly through an ATP depletion, but thermal cell killing is not mediated by the drug-ind...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Floridi A,Gentile PF,Bruno T,Delpino A,Iacobini C,Benassi M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunotherapy significantly improved survival of non-small cell lung cancer patients, but it may cause immune-related adverse events, which are severe in less than 10% of cases. We report the case of one patient who developed myositis and myasthenia during nivolumab treatment for metastatic lung squamous carcinoma...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Veccia A,Kinspergher S,Grego E,Peterlana D,Berti A,Tranquillini E,Caffo O

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study, we calculated the treatment and follow-up costs of patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. The total treatment programme consisted of eight phases: VAD or VAMP chemotherapy, follow-up I, high-dose melphalan followed by transplantation of whole blood, follow-up II, collection of periph...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Buijt I,Ossenkoppele GJ,Uyl-de Groot CA,Huijgens PC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combretastatin A4 phosphate (CA4P) is a water-soluble prodrug of combretastatin A4 (CA4). The vascular targeting agent CA4 is a microtubule depolymerizing agent. The mechanism of action of the drug is thought to involve the binding of CA4 to tubulin leading to cytoskeletal and then morphological changes in endothelial...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： West CM,Price P

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer occurs throughout the world but is most common in developed countries. Cancer progression is believed to be driven by genetic mutations in this complex condition. Risk factors for developing colorectal cancer include a genetic family history, long-term ulcerative colitis, and colonic polyps. The use ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Ma W,Liu X,Du W

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a new anticancer drug with a novel structure and unique mechanism of action is an important event, especially when the drug plays a clear role in improving the outcome for cancer patients. No drug fits this description better than Taxol. However, during the early phases of its development, there was...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Wani MC,Horwitz SB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical treatment of skin metastases with a cytotoxic agent is attractive for its easy self-administration and absence of major systemic interference. Miltefosine exerts its cytotoxicity by acting on cell membrane phospholipids and can be administered topically. Twenty breast cancer patients with progression of skin m...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Smorenburg CH,Seynaeve C,Bontenbal M,Planting AS,Sindermann H,Verweij J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trifluorothymidine (TFT) is a fluorinated thymidine analog that after conversion to its monophosphate derivative can inhibit thymidylate synthase (TS) and be incorporated into DNA. TFT is a good substrate for thymidine phosphorylase (TP), and the combination of TFT and a TP inhibitor (TPI), called TAS-102, has been de...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Temmink OH,de Bruin M,Comijn EM,Fukushima M,Peters GJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the recent advances in chemotherapy of malignant gliomas, with special emphasis on the most common primary brain tumor in adults, glioblastoma. The demonstration of the superiority of concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide with standard radiotherapy over radiotherapy alone in patients with newly ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Soffietti R,Rudà R,Trevisan E

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response rates reported in early phase II clinical trials are often not reproduced in subsequent larger or phase III studies. Independent review of claimed partial or complete responders to gemcitabine was undertaken in four pivotal, open-label phase II studies of advanced, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to provid...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Gwyther SJ,Aapro MS,Hatty SR,Postmus PE,Smith IE

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired docetaxel (Doc) resistance in hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) remains an ongoing clinical challenge, resulting in failed chemotherapy and tumor recurrence. However, the mechanism of Doc-resistance development in prostate cancer cells is still unclear. Here, we observed a subpopulation of prostate ca...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Qiu S,Deng L,Bao Y,Jin K,Tu X,Li J,Liao X,Liu Z,Yang L,Wei Q

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：:At the present time, there is not a standard regimen in upfront metastatic setting for breast cancer. A wide variety of regimens which includes anthracyclines, taxanes, gemcitabine or capecitabine are currently used, however, there is evidence to support the use of many of these drugs in early breast cancer and conseq...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Estevez LG,Tusquets I,Muñoz M,Adrover E,Rovira PS,Seguí MA,Rodríguez CA,Lescure AR,Ruiz M,Alvarez I,Mata JG

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of trastuzumab beyond metastatic disease progression (PD) is controversial. We retrospectively analyzed 213 patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer treated with trastuzumab-based therapies between November 1998 and December 2010. Out of 213 patients, 134 (58%) had received trastuzumab consecu...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Esposito A,Munzone E,Bagnardi V,Adamoli L,Sciandivasci A,Cullurà D,Goldhirsch A,Nolè F

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to further the understanding of the incidence of adverse events (AEs) in a population-based representative liver cancer population where there is currently a lack of knowledge. We carried out a retrospective cohort study using data from an administrative claims database between 1 January 2004 and 31 D...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Dreyfus B,Kawabata HM,Gomez-Caminero A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous in vitro biochemical studies have revealed that the antitumor drug leinamycin causes oxidative DNA damage and DNA alkylation. However, it is still not clear whether the same mechanism(s) of action operate in cultured human tumor cells. Here, we evaluated the effects of leinamycin in the human pancreatic carci...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Bassett S,Urrabaz R,Sun D

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported a 33% partial response rate with acceptable toxicity using weekly 24-h infusion of high-dose 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and leucovorin (LV) in patients with far advanced biliary tract cancers (BTC). In this study, we added mitomycin (MMC) to 5-FU and LV in an attempt to improve the response rate and surviv...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Chen JS,Lin YC,Jan YY,Liau CT

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays an important role in inducing cancer metastasis. Baicalin, a flavone derivative isolated from Scutellaria spp., shows a series of pharmacological and physiological activities. However, the possible role of baicalin in the EMT is unclear. In this study, we attempted to ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Wang Y,Wang H,Zhou R,Zhong W,Lu S,Ma Z,Chai Y

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antitumor effects of a polyamine biosynthetic pathway inhibitor methylglyoxal bis(cyclopentylamidinohydrazone) (MGBCP) on the human hepatocellular carcinoma SK-HEP-1 cell line have been investigated. The growth of these cultured hepatocellular carcinoma cells was inhibited by MGBCP in a dose-dependent manner. Sper...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Hashimoto Y,Hibasami H,Tamaki S,Kamei A,Ikoma J,Kaito M,Imoto I,Watanabe S,Nakashima K,Adachi Y

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical tumor (ACT) is a malignancy with a low incidence rate and the current therapy for advanced disease has a limited impact on overall patient survival. A previous study from our group suggested that elevated expression of aurora-A and aurora-B is associated with poor outcome in childhood ACT. Similar resul...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Borges KS,Andrade AF,Silveira VS,Marco Antonio DS,Vasconcelos EJR,Antonini SRR,Tone LG,Scrideli CA

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human colon cancer SW480 cells express the c-myc gene. On the other hand, SW480DDP cell lines resistant to cisplatin exhibited decreased c-myc gene expression, but their cell growth rates remained similar to those of their parental cells. Antisense oligonucleotides to c-myc inhibited c-myc expression and induced incre...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Funato T,Kozawa K,Kaku M,Sasaki T

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to determine whether actinomycin X2 (AX2) intercepted the mTOR/PTEN/PI3K/Akt signaling pathway to inhibit human prostate cancer cells (PC-3) in vitro. The effects of AX2 on mTOR, PTEN, PI3K, and Akt at the protein level and mRNA were determined by western blotting and real-time reverse transcri...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Liu J,Xie S,Wu Y,Xu M,Ao C,Wang W,Zeng Q,Hu W,Li M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-reactive protein (CRP) is an independent prognostic factor for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The aim of the present study was to investigate the overall prognostic impact of CRP in patients with metastatic RCC treated with sorafenib. Between April 2008 and December 2014, 40 consecutive patients with metastatic RCC wer...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Fujita T,Nishi M,Tabata K,Matsumoto K,Yoshida K,Iwamura M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temozolomide (TMZ) combination with whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) has been tested by many randomized controlled trials in the treatment of brain metastases (BMs) in China and other countries. We performed an up-to-date meta-analysis to determine (i) the log odds ratios (LORs) of objective response (ORR) and adverse ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Bai GR,An JB,Chu Y,Wang XY,Li SM,Yan KJ,Lü FR,Gu N,Griffin AN,Sun BY,Li W,Wang GC,Zhou SP,Sun H,Liu CX

更新日期：2016-01-01 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

abstract：:In the APHINITY study (NCT01358877, BIG 4-11/BO25126/TOC4939G), pertuzumab added to trastuzumab and chemotherapy significantly improved invasive disease-free survival as adjuvant treatment for patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer. The objective of this analysis was to assess the pharmacokinetics of pertuzum...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Luo Y,Li W,Jiang Z,Zhang Q,Wang L,Mao Y,Tjan-Heijnen VCG,Im SA,McConnell R,Bejarano S,Fumagalli D,Bines J,Wang B,Garg A,Kirschbrown WP,Xu B

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment failure of surgically treated gastric cancer is attributed to the spread of gastric cancer cells into the abdominal cavity and lymphatic or hematogenic canals. In the present study, local injection of mitomycin C bound to activated carbon (M-CH) combined with i.p. hyperthermic hypo-osmolar infusion (IPHHOI) ...

journal_title：Anti-cancer drugs

authors： Huang Y,Hagiwara A,Wang W,Su G,Qi X,Ma D,Fan Y

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00