Chemotherapy
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Let's think for a second how
chemotherapy
works.
And that's exactly the same problem for
chemotherapy
and pancreatic cancer.
But what they realized when they started offering
chemotherapy
is the patients rarely wanted to get in cars.
He had a stroke, he had brain surgery, radiation,
chemotherapy.
And so also for patients like Ehud that are going through these nasty, nasty
chemotherapy
drugs, for them not to suffer through those horrendous side effects of the drugs when the drugs are in fact not even helping them.
You destroy all the bone marrow in the cancer patient with massive doses of chemotherapy, and then you replace that marrow with several million healthy marrow cells from a donor.
If my sister made it through the near-lethal chemotherapy, she still would face other challenges.
He and his mother had been meeting with the
chemotherapy
doctors earlier that day, and he had been admitted to the hospital to begin
chemotherapy.
It turned out that what she had been reading was the protocol that the
chemotherapy
doctors had given her that day.
The complex medical diagnoses that bring our young patients to us mean that their lives have often been restricted, some to a hospital bed for long periods of time, others to wheelchairs, still others to intensive courses of
chemotherapy
or rehab.
And before that year was finished, doctors sat my husband and I down and let us know that his tumor had returned despite the most aggressive
chemotherapy
and radiation that they could offer him.
I went to my first day of chemotherapy, and I was an emotional wreck.
Here's an example of one patient who undergoes surgery at time point zero, and then undergoes
chemotherapy.
We still give patients chemotherapy, which is so non-specific that even though it kills the cancer cells, it kind of kills the rest of your body, too.
For example,
chemotherapy
to a tumor or gene therapies to the tissue where gene repair needs to take place.
She had gone through a series of
chemotherapy
and radiation treatments over several years, and her leukemia had always come back.
It took time and trial and error to find treatments that did more good than harm, but by the end of World War II, they discovered what became known as the first
chemotherapy
drugs.
Chemotherapy
drugs are delivered through pills and injections and use "cytotoxic agents," which means compounds that are toxic to living cells.
Take, for example, those first
chemotherapy
drugs, which are still used today and are called alkylating agents.
Another form of
chemotherapy
involves compounds called microtubule stabilizers.
These are just two examples of the six classes of
chemotherapy
drugs we use to treat cancer today.
But despite its huge benefits,
chemotherapy
has one big disadvantage: it affects other healthy cells in the body that naturally have to renew rapidly.
That leads to several common side effects of chemotherapy, including hair loss, fatigue, infertility, nausea, and vomiting.
For hair loss, devices called cold caps can help lower the temperature around the head and constrict blood vessels, limiting the amount of
chemotherapy
drugs that reach hair follicles.
But
chemotherapy
and other treatments have changed the outlook for so many.
Even in people with acute myeloid leukemia— an aggressive blood cancer—
chemotherapy
puts an estimated 60% of patients under 60 into remission following their first phase of treatment.
So what we do in our field is we change and input, we give aggressive chemotherapy, and we say, "Did that output get better?
They had gotten their chemotherapy, and then they randomized them, where half got placebo, and half got a drug called Zoledronic acid that builds bone.
So the idea that
chemotherapy
may just be disrupting that complex system, just like building bone disrupted that system and reduced recurrence,
chemotherapy
may work by that same exact way.
A whole new approach, instead of giving high doses of
chemotherapy
by different mechanisms, to try to bring technology to get a picture of what's actually happening in the body.
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