61. The third group will get Herceptin and the other chemotherapy drugs, taxotere and carboplatin. 62. The technique is spreading rapidly, which means that more people are administering and receiving potentially lethal doses of chemotherapy drugs. 63. The two chemotherapy drugs involved in the case are Taxol and Gemzar. 64. They concluded that specific chemotherapy drugs administered after the first trimester were a reasonable risk for the baby and an effective treatment for me. 65. They also found evidence that Herceptin combined with a common class of chemotherapy drugs can damage heart cells. 66. Transporters make some tumors drug resistant by enabling cancer cells to pump out chemotherapy drugs swiftly. 67. Tumors become resistant to chemotherapy drugs, Kerbel said, because cancer cells constantly reshuffle their genetic information. 68. Tumor cells attacked by conventional chemotherapy drugs eventually mutate into resistant cells, thwarting the treatment. 69. Unlike most chemotherapy drugs, which target healthy and cancerous cells alike, Gleevec appears to kill only deadly cancer cells. 70. People whose MGMT genes are altered that way respond much better to carmustine and similar chemotherapy drugs. |
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