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   Cancer

   Cancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, monoclonal antibody therapy or other methods.
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   Chemotherapy

   Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, specifically those of micro-organisms or cancer.
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   History of cancer chemotherapy

   Combination chemotherapy ... In 1996 a more stable analogue, irinotecan, won Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the treatment of colon cancer.
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   Lung cancer

   Radon exposure is the second major cause of lung cancer, after smoking. ... Primary chemotherapy is also given in metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma.
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   Ovarian cancer

   Borderline tumors, even following spread outside of the ovary, are managed well with surgery, and chemotherapy is not seen as useful. ... "Ovarian cancer".
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   Prostate cancer

   Systemic chemotherapy for prostate cancer was first studied in the 1970s. ... ↑ Strum SB, Pogliano D (May 2005), "What every doctor who treats male patients should know", PCRI Insights 8(2): 4–5, < http://www.prostate-cancer.org/resource/pdf/Is8-2.pdf>
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   Breast cancer chemotherapy

   Adjuvant chemotherapy ... used to control (but not cure) the cancer in settings in which the cancer has spread beyond the breast and localized lymph nodes
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   Breast cancer treatment

   See breast cancer chemotherapy. ... In up to 10% of patients, there will be disease recurrences, but treating every patient with chemotherapy is overkill.
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   Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment

   Treatment ... "Altered frontocortical, cerebellar, and basal ganglia activity in adjuvant-treated breast cancer survivors 5-10 years after chemotherapy".
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    Colorectal cancer

    Chemotherapy is used to reduce the likelihood of metastasis developing, shrink tumor size, or slow tumor growth. ... Nutr and Cancer. 2004;50(2):111–119.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Cancer,
• Chemotherapy,
• History of cancer chemotherapy,
• Lung cancer,
• Ovarian cancer,
• Prostate cancer,
• Breast cancer chemotherapy,
• Breast cancer treatment,
• Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment,
• Colorectal cancer