OBJECTIVE Mucositis is a serious disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that results from cancer chemotherapy. We investigated the effects of increasing grape seed extract doses on the severity of chemotherapy in a rat model and its coincident impact on chemotherapeutic effectiveness in colon cancer cells. DESIGN Female Dark Agouti rats were gavaged with grape seed extract (400-1000 mg/kg) or...

Paclitaxel plus cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil plus cisplatin treatments are effective strategies for patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. This study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of paclitaxel plus cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil plus cisplatin as first-line chemotherapy for patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. A total of 398 patients with advan...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a c-myc antisense oligodeoxynucleotide and 5-fluorouracil on the expression of c-myc, invasion and proliferation of HEPG-2 liver cancer cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS HEPG-2 cells were treated with lipiosome-mediated c-myc ADSON and 5-fluorouracil. The proliferation inhibition rate and invasion were measured by MTT and invasion a...

Background: Melanoma progression and metastasis is suggested to be mediated by increased accumulation of myeloid derived suppressor cells. Various chemotherapeutic drugs such as 5-Fluorouracil in single low concentration have the capacity, at least in part, to reverse tumor progression by reducing myeloid derived suppressor cellsmediated immunosuppression. Objective: To assess whether multiple ...

Cancer pharmacology is often markedly toxic and must be precisely dosed in order to reach the therapeutic bioavailability under strict control. Transport properties are important tools process of interpretation fine-tuning pharmaceutical applications, notably for drugs that have a long record use met their limits bioavailability. 5–Fluorouracil (5-FU) one most used antineoplastic agents since i...

BACKGROUND Actinic keratosis is a frequent lesion which occurs in sunlight exposed areas. Diclofenac sodium and 5-Fluorouracil are effective, non-invasive and easy-to-apply topical treatment options. OBJECTIVES To assess and compare the effectiveness of 3% diclofenac sodium associated with 2.5% hyaluronic acid and of 5% 5-Fluorouracil for the treatment of actinic keratosis, as well as the pat...

PURPOSE 5-Fluorouracil is the most effective chemotherapeutic agent in the management of patients with systemic colorectal cancer. Studies in recent years discussed the gradually increasing benefits of 5-fluorouracil within adjuvant chemotherapy protocols after complete surgical resections. However, many studies also have demonstrated that 5-fluorouracil impairs wound-healing on colonic anastom...

The purpose of this study was to determine the conditions for optimum synergistic efficacy of the two-drug combination of trimetrexate and 5-fluorouracil. Synergistic cell killing of Chinese hamster ovary cells in these clonogenic survival assays was observed only when the cells had been exposed to trimetrexate (25 microM) for 2 to 4 h prior to 5-fluorouracil exposure (either 125 or 250 microM)...