Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols

Publication Title: 
Journal of Clinical Oncology: Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Fifty-one children 6-17 years of age rated the severity of nausea, vomiting, and the extent to which chemotherapy bothered them during each course of chemotherapy. Sixteen patients had no symptoms and the doses administered to 16 others were not constant so that matched courses could not be assessed. After baseline measurement of two matched courses, the remaining 19 patients were randomized to receive hypnosis or supportive counseling during two more matched courses. An additional course with no intervention was assessed in half of the patients.

Author(s): 
Zeltzer, L.
LeBaron, S.
Zeltzer, P. M.
Publication Title: 
The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
Author(s): 
Kaye, J. M.
Publication Title: 
The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

This paper presents the case of a 6.5-year-old girl with malignant astrocytoma of the left brain hemisphere. During the course of her chemotherapy treatment, severe vomiting developed to the degree that on several occasions she became dehydrated. Discontinuation of chemotherapy was being considered when she was referred for hypnotherapy. Despite severe neurological impairments which excluded many traditional techniques, hypnosis was successful in eliminating emesis. Hypnosis was also utilized to decrease pain and to improve sleep patterns.

Author(s): 
LaClave, L. J.
Blix, S.
Publication Title: 
Pediatrics

Fifty-four pediatric cancer patients were studied to determine the relative efficacy of two forms of behavioral intervention for reducing chemotherapy-related distress. Following baseline assessment, subjects were randomly assigned to receive either hypnosis, non-hypnotic distraction/relaxation, or attention placebo (control) during the subsequent identical chemotherapy course. Observational and interview measures of anticipatory and postchemotherapy nausea, vomiting, distress, and functional disruption served as outcome data.

Author(s): 
Zeltzer, L. K.
Dolgin, M. J.
LeBaron, S.
LeBaron, C.
Publication Title: 
Oncology (Williston Park, N.Y.)

Nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy most commonly occur after administration of the drug regimen, but a substantial proportion of patients also develop these symptoms in anticipation of treatment, after one or more courses of chemotherapy have been given. Currently available pharmacologic agents are unable to provide complete protection from either anticipatory or post-treatment nausea and emesis associated with cancer chemotherapy.

Author(s): 
Morrow, G. R.
Hickok, J. T.
Publication Title: 
Anticancer Research

BACKGROUND: Butyric acid is a short chain fatty acid produced by large bowel bacterial flora. It serves as an antiinflammatory agent and nutrient for normal colon cells. Butyric acid has also been shown to induce apoptosis in colon and many other cancer cells. Artemisinin is a compound extracted from the wormwood Artemisia annua L. It has been shown to selectively kill cancer cells in vitro and to be effective in treating animal and human cancer. We and others have found that the artemisinin analog, dihydroartemisinin (DHA), kills cancer cells by apoptosis.

Author(s): 
Singh, Narendra P.
Lai, Henry C.
Publication Title: 
Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao = Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine

OBJECTIVE: To our knowledge, there has been no clinical report of artesunate in the treatment of lung cancer. This study was designed to compare the efficacy and toxicity of artesunate combined with NP (a chemotherapy regimen of vinorelbine and cisplatin) and NP alone in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS: One hundred and twenty cases of advanced NSCLC were randomly divided into simple chemotherapy group (control group, n=60) and combined artesunare with chemotherapy group (trial group, n=60).

Author(s): 
Zhang, Zhu-Yi
Yu, Shi-Qing
Miao, Li-Yun
Huang, Xiao-Ying
Zhang, Xiao-ping
Zhu, Yu-Ping
Xia, Xiao-hong
Li, Dan-Qi
Publication Title: 
Oncotarget

To improve prognosis in recurrent glioblastoma we developed a treatment protocol based on a combination of drugs not traditionally thought of as cytotoxic chemotherapy agents but that have a robust history of being well-tolerated and are already marketed and used for other non-cancer indications.

Author(s): 
Kast, Richard E.
Boockvar, John A.
Brüning, Ansgar
Cappello, Francesco
Chang, Wen-Wei
Cvek, Boris
Dou, Q. Ping
Duenas-Gonzalez, Alfonso
Efferth, Thomas
Focosi, Daniele
Ghaffari, Seyed H.
Karpel-Massler, Georg
Ketola, Kirsi
Khoshnevisan, Alireza
Keizman, Daniel
Magné, Nicolas
Marosi, Christine
McDonald, Kerrie
Muñoz, Miguel
Paranjpe, Ameya
Pourgholami, Mohammad H.
Sardi, Iacopo
Sella, Avishay
Srivenugopal, Kalkunte S.
Tuccori, Marco
Wang, Weiguang
Wirtz, Christian R.
Halatsch, Marc-Eric
Publication Title: 
Oncotarget

CUSP9 treatment protocol for recurrent glioblastoma was published one year ago. We now present a slight modification, designated CUSP9*. CUSP9* drugs--aprepitant, artesunate, auranofin, captopril, celecoxib, disulfiram, itraconazole, sertraline, ritonavir, are all widely approved by regulatory authorities, marketed for non-cancer indications. Each drug inhibits one or more important growth-enhancing pathways used by glioblastoma. By blocking survival paths, the aim is to render temozolomide, the current standard cytotoxic drug used in primary glioblastoma treatment, more effective.

Author(s): 
Kast, Richard E.
Karpel-Massler, Georg
Halatsch, Marc-Eric
Publication Title: 
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention: APJCP

BACKGROUND: Patients with colorectal cancer are usually treated with chemotherapy, which reduces the number of blood cells, especially white blood cells, and consequently increases the risk of infections. Some research studies have reported that aromatherapy massage affects the immune system and improves immune function by, for example, increasing the numbers of natural killer cells and peripheral blood lymphocytes.

Author(s): 
Khiewkhern, Santisith
Promthet, Supannee
Sukprasert, Aemkhea
Eunhpinitpong, Wichai
Bradshaw, Peter

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