Word: platinum
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...today, while it has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a first-line treatment for cancer, taxol is now used as a backup therapy if conventional platinum-based chemotherapy fails, according to Dr. Ross Berkowitz, professor of gynecology at the Medical School...
...Platinum-based chemotherapy] is agreed to be the best single active drug in treating ovarian cancer," he says. "It is generally agreed upon that taxol is a reasonable second line therapy...
Rather, says ovarian cancer specialist Dr. Steven A. Cannistra, assistant professor of medicine at the Medical School, taxol represents a different kind of treatment which could prove effective after other chemical agents fail to induce responses in patients who have developed a resistance to platinum...
...Many patients with platinum resistance are still sensitive to taxol," he says, "so we use it for patients who have this resistance or who develop a relapse right after the platinum-based treatment...
Gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg's debut album Doggystyle (Death Row/ Interscope) is by all odds the most anticipated release in the brief history of rap. Snoop, 22, was first praised by the critics for his performance on several tracks of rapper Dr. Dre's triple-platinum 1992 album The Chronic. He landed on the covers of Rolling Stone, Vibe and The Source even before turning out his first solo album. Snoop drew more attention, not to say notoriety, when police accused him of being at the wheel on Aug. 25 when his bodyguard shot another man from...