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- noun A particular
drug used inchemotherapy .
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In the winter, we had switched to a new drug called gemcitabine, or Gemzar.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In the winter, we had switched to a new drug called gemcitabine, or Gemzar.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In the winter, we had switched to a new drug called gemcitabine, or Gemzar.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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And then there were more conventional treatments: he got a chemotherapy drug from Eli Lilly and Co called gemcitabine or Gemzar, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's newly approved melanoma treatment ipilimumab or Yervoy, Roche's Tarceva, which targets proteins involved in cancer growth, and a drug from Roche's Genentech unit that interferes with the so-called hedgehog signalling pathway that can become reactivated with certain cancers.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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And then there were more conventional treatments: he got a chemotherapy drug from Eli Lilly and Co called gemcitabine or Gemzar, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's newly approved melanoma treatment ipilimumab or Yervoy, Roche's Tarceva, which targets proteins involved in cancer growth, and a drug from Roche's Genentech unit that interferes with the so-called hedgehog signaling pathway that can become reactivated with certain cancers.
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Researchers gave 342 pancreatic cancer patients either the cocktail - a combination of four already-approved drugs that doctors call folfirinox - or a commonly used drug called gemcitabine.
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The typical chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, called gemcitabine, is given weekly for six months.
unknown title 2009
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A chemotherapy drug commonly used in patients, called gemcitabine, does not have the harsh symptoms of nausea, vomiting and hair loss seen in other cancer drugs.
CNN.com 2009
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The typical chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, called gemcitabine, is given weekly for six months.
unknown title 2009
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The prognosis of pancreatic cancer is poor but new therapies such as gemcitabine have contributed to ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
chained_bear commented on the word gemcitabine
"Steven Rosenberg ... points out that for years chemotherapy was recommended to virtually all victims of pancreatic cancer even though not a single chemotherapy regimen had ever been shown to prolong their lives for one day. (At this writing, investigators have just demonstrated that gemcitabine can extend median life expectancy by one to two months, but it is highly toxic.)"
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 23–24
February 11, 2009