Oncology
Immunotherapy: A Promising Cancer Therapy
Overview ㅡ Our immune system keeps us protected from many threats such as infectious bacteria, viruses, and cancer too. However, cancer cells have their own ways and tricks to skip our defense system. Immunotherapy helps the immune cells to overcome these tricks and destroy cancer cells, which makes it a promising approach to treating canc…
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Oncology
Overview of chemotherapy: Types of chemo-drugs (standard therapy)
This article was written by: Alaa Khalid Said, BS Pharm, PharmD. Senior oncology pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacy Department, Tanta Oncology Center. OVERVIEW ― It's important to know that not all cancer treating drugs work in the same way. Some drugs to treat cancer work differently, such as targeted therapy, hormone thera…
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Oncology
Targeted cancer therapy
This article was written by: Alaa Khalid Said, BS Pharm, PharmD. Senior oncology pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacy Department, Tanta Oncology Center. OVERVIEW ㅡ A new generation of cancer treatment has come to the forefront called targeted cancer therapies. Like conventional chemotherapy, targeted cancer therapies use pharmacolog…
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Oncology
Introduction of chemotherapy
This article was written by: Alaa Khalid Said, BS Pharm, PharmD. Senior oncology pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacy Department, Tanta Oncology Center. OVERVIEW ㅡ Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to destroy cancer cells. It usually works by keeping the cancer cells from growing, dividing, and making more cells. As cancer cel…
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