Cancer Fighting Drugs

Despite whether or not patients experience weight loss, a well-known anti-obesity medication has been proven to reinstate the functionality of immune cells that fight cancer.

The use of the body's own immune system to find and kill cancer cells is rapidly changing the way the disease is managed and treated.

Japanese researchers have genetically engineered hens whose eggs contain drugs that can fight serious diseases including cancer, in a bid to dramatically reduce the cost of treatment, a report said Monday.

An off-patent malaria drug could help to destroy cancer cells by making them more susceptible to radiotherapy, according to early work that has prompted British scientists to start a clinical trial.

Scientists have synthesised a new drug that they say can treat melanoma, a highly aggressive form of skin cancer.

Certain drugs currently used to treat diseases such as heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia have the potential to be effective in treatment of cancer, new research has found.

Researchers have found a way to make an existing drug used to treat breast, lung and pancreatic cancers effective in small dosage, thereby reducing its usage and associated side effects in course of the treatment.

A triple therapy treatment consisting of two experimental drugs and radiation therapy may help fight lung cancers that are resistant to current treatments, a new study has claimed.

US authorities have approved a "breakthrough" drug to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer, signalling a paradigm shift in the way the deadliest of all cancers is treated.

New drugs that boost the immune systems ability to fight tumors may be one of the greatest medical advances in years, cancer doctors say, pulling some patients from deaths door and keeping them in remission for years.

An Australian woman who deliberately poisoned her four-year-old daughter with cancer drugs then detailed the girl's "fight for life" on Facebook to garner attention for herself was on Wednesday jailed for six years.

The ubiquitous tulsi in your backyard may be a potent weapon against all kinds of cancer, so believes a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist.

German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer, maker of Aspirin, vowed Monday to fight a ruling by the patent authorities in India allowing a local company to produce and sell a generic copy of its anti-cancer drug Nexavar.

According to a recent Indian study, a drug originally used to treat cancer has proved to be an easy and effective way to fight kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that infects approximately 5,00,000 people in 88 countries each year around the globe. In India, the country hardest hit by visceral leishmaniasis, up to 60% of peopl...

According to a recent study, a drug originally designed to treat cancer appears to be an easy and effective way to fight black fever (kala azar) or visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that infects hundreds of thousands of people each year around the globe.

Despite whether or not patients experience weight loss, a well-known anti-obesity medication has been proven to reinstate the functionality of immune cells that fight cancer.

The use of the body's own immune system to find and kill cancer cells is rapidly changing the way the disease is managed and treated.

Japanese researchers have genetically engineered hens whose eggs contain drugs that can fight serious diseases including cancer, in a bid to dramatically reduce the cost of treatment, a report said Monday.

An off-patent malaria drug could help to destroy cancer cells by making them more susceptible to radiotherapy, according to early work that has prompted British scientists to start a clinical trial.

Scientists have synthesised a new drug that they say can treat melanoma, a highly aggressive form of skin cancer.

Certain drugs currently used to treat diseases such as heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia have the potential to be effective in treatment of cancer, new research has found.

Researchers have found a way to make an existing drug used to treat breast, lung and pancreatic cancers effective in small dosage, thereby reducing its usage and associated side effects in course of the treatment.

A triple therapy treatment consisting of two experimental drugs and radiation therapy may help fight lung cancers that are resistant to current treatments, a new study has claimed.

US authorities have approved a "breakthrough" drug to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer, signalling a paradigm shift in the way the deadliest of all cancers is treated.

New drugs that boost the immune systems ability to fight tumors may be one of the greatest medical advances in years, cancer doctors say, pulling some patients from deaths door and keeping them in remission for years.

An Australian woman who deliberately poisoned her four-year-old daughter with cancer drugs then detailed the girl's "fight for life" on Facebook to garner attention for herself was on Wednesday jailed for six years.

The ubiquitous tulsi in your backyard may be a potent weapon against all kinds of cancer, so believes a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist.

German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer, maker of Aspirin, vowed Monday to fight a ruling by the patent authorities in India allowing a local company to produce and sell a generic copy of its anti-cancer drug Nexavar.

According to a recent Indian study, a drug originally used to treat cancer has proved to be an easy and effective way to fight kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that infects approximately 5,00,000 people in 88 countries each year around the globe. In India, the country hardest hit by visceral leishmaniasis, up to 60% of peopl...

According to a recent study, a drug originally designed to treat cancer appears to be an easy and effective way to fight black fever (kala azar) or visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that infects hundreds of thousands of people each year around the globe.