Gastric cancer is the fifth most frequently diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer mortality. In advanced gastric cancer patients, the treatment outcomes are dismal. With the development of the molecular targeted therapy, the prognosis in patients with advanced and unresectable gastric cancer are improved. This article reviewed the molecular targeted agents in clinical use, thei...

today, use of nanotechnology for cancer therapy is an active field of research. early detection, accurate diagnosis, and individual treatment are the aims which cause nanotechnology as an attractive area for research. among metallic nanomaterials, gold nanostructures have unique properties which make them remarkable candidates for biomedical approaches. surface plasmonic resonance (spr) effect ...

Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) is a broad category of cancer, comprises cancer that origin into oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, sinuses salivary gland. Majority cases reported in Pakistan are metastatic to with morphology squamous cell carcinoma. Locally advance, un-resectable tumors treated systemic therapies. Commonly prescribe therapies includes chemotherapy targeted therapy. However, the most pre...

In oncology, the term 'targeted therapy' is used to describe drugs that target only the cancer cells and spare normal cells thereby reducing host toxicity while simultaneously increasing the eradication of cancer. Trastuzumab and imatinib are well known examples of successful targeted therapy. Newer agents like gefitinib and cetuximab offer hope that targeted therapy also may yield therapeutic ...

Cancer therapy agents have been used extensively as cytotoxic drugs against tissue or organ of a specific type of cancer. With the better understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying carcinogenesis and cellular events during cancer progression and metastasis, it is now possible to use targeted therapy for these molecular events. Targeted therapy is able to identify cancer patients with diss...

Damage of the normal tissue is a serious concenrn in cancer treatment. Hyperthermia by laserhas been considered as a safe cancer treatments methods with lower harmful effects on normaltissues. Using nanoparticles in cancer treatment has improved laser therapy, which is based ona selective cell targeting method to localize cell damages. Metallic nanoparticles such as gold,silver, and copper have...

background most of the cancer patients may suffer from pain; therefore, music therapy -as a noninvasive method- is sometimes used to help reduce the pain of cancer patients. objective to evaluate the effects of music therapy on pain in some patients with cancer. material and methods this semi-experimental study was performed at urmia teaching hospital in 2011. a total number of 60 patients with...

The 5-year relative survival rate of all types of cancer has increased significantly over the past three decades partly due to the targeted therapy. However, still there are many targeted therapy drugs could play a role only in a portion of cancer patients with specific molecular alternation. It is necessary to continue to develop new biological agents which could be used alone and/or in combin...

The developments of medicine always follow innovations in science and technology. In the past decade, such innovations have made cancer-related targeted therapies possible. In general, the term "targeted therapy" has been used in reference to cellular and molecular level oriented therapies. However, improvements in the delivery and planning of traditional radiation therapy have also provided ...