Cancer chemotherapy and biological response modifiers annual 16. Introduction.

Immunotherapy for breast cancer.

Clinical potential of biological response modifiers combined with chemotherapy for gastric cancer. Japanese experience.

The most effective treatment for gastric cancer is complete surgical resection with lymphadenectomy. However, a number of patients experience recurrence of the cancer even after curative surgery. This review focuses on comparative trials studying the use of adjuvant therapy with chemotherapy plus immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with curatively resected gastric cancer. Preoperative an...

Cost evaluation of chemotherapy and epidemiology of five most common cancers in Isfahan Province in Iran

Background: Cancer is the third leading cause of death in Iran. Cancer treatment is very costly and chemotherapy drugs are one of the main causes of the high cost of cancer treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cost of chemotherapy drugs of five most common cancers and identifying the factors might affect the costs of chemotherapy drugs in a one of the large provinces of Iran...

Biological response modifiers.

Biological response modifiers (BRMs) of current clinical interest may be divided into two categories: immunomodulating agents and colony stimulating factors (CSFs). The first are employed to potentiate the host defences towards the tumor but results have proved disappointing in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). With regard to the second, the real dose increment which may be ascribed to CSFs i...

Biological response modifiers in cancer therapy.

Biological response modifiers improve the body's ability to fight cancer by immunostimulation. Although a century has passed since the first attempt was made to stimulate the host immune system against cancer, only the past decade has witnessed the scientific use of biological response modifiers. Recent advances in tumour immunology have enabled the development of specific agents targeted again...