Good Morning my friends.....the following is some new information
about progressive therapy treatments for Nasopharyngeal and
Head and Neck Cancers. I am finding many more treatments are
and will be available in the very near future. HOPE is finally
here and on the way.
Two new randomized studies have shown that chemotherapy
used in combination with radiation treatment, rather than radiation
alone, yields significantly higher survival rates for survivors with
difficult-to-treat advanced nasopharyngeal, head and neck cancers.
In a study examining the effectiveness of chemoradiotherapy in 193
survivors with nasopharyngeal cancer, a consortuium of over 40
universities and comprehensive care centers found a significant
increase in survival using chemoradiotherapy vs treatment with
radiation alone. The chemoradiotherapy involved the use of
cisplatin every three weeks for three cycles in conjunction
with radiation treatment. Chemotherapy using cisplatin and
fluorouracil was the adminstered after radiation.
A second study, involving 270 assessable survivors at
six German medical centers, is one of the first to show the
effectiveness of chemoradiotherapy in advanced head and neck cancer.
The chemoradiotherapy in this study involved the use of cisplatin,
fluorouracil and leucovorin in three cycles, in conjunction with
radiation treatment. The majority of survivors in both studies had
advanced cancer.
I hope and pray this information will benefit some here.
I believe JOhn should be aware of this. I will e-mail this
info to him and I will speak with him on tues or Wed of this week.
God Bless
marty auslander
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