Word: cisplatin
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...therapy, used primarily in treating late stages of the cancer, involves the use of two drugs, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil. The combination of these has proven effective in attacking cancer cells, said Dr. Philip C. Amrein of the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital...
...cisplatin kills the cancer cells by attacking the genetic material, DNA, in a fashion different from the way 5-fluorouracil attacks DNA, and only when they work together...can they work to kill the cancer," Amrein said...
...therapy runs on a six-day cycle. Therapy consists of doses of 5-fluorouracil on the first day, followed by both cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil for the next five days. The six-day cycle cannot be repeated more than four times in a row, Amrein said...
Although testicular cancer used to be regularly fatal, it is now often curable. Treatment may involve surgery, radiation and/or a combination of drugs, most notably cisplatin, which was first used experimentally only a decade ago. Even in severe cases, more than half the patients are cured. When the disease is detected early, the cure rate is nearly...