31. Can cancer be treated at a cellular level? 32. CANCER DRUG SHOWS PROMISE Researchers say a drug being developed by Millennium Pharmaceuticals has shown early promise in treating myeloma cancer. 33. Competition is keen for new drugs to treat breast cancer, since some one in ten women will get breast cancer during their lifetimes. 34. Courtney practiced a compounding speciality in which he reconstituted FDA-approved liquid medications, often to treat cancer, to dosages prescribed by physicians. 35. Critics complain that promises of cures have been inflated and that prevention has been ignored in favor of finding drugs to treat cancer. 36. Entremed still faces steep odds in its search for a better way to treat cancer. 37. Eventually, the companies hope, using radiation to treat coronary arteries is as common as its use to treat cancer. 38. For example, a drug might be approved for use in treating ovarian cancer but also find substantial off-label use in treating kidney cancer. 39. George suggests that a better understanding of the protection offered by caffeine might lead to improvements in the way that radiation is used to treat cancer. 40. He introduced new surgical techniques and ways to treat urologic cancers by combining surgery with radiotherapy or chemotherapy. |