Systemic therapy involves treatment that travels through your entire body rather than being aimed at one area. Systemic radiation therapy uses radioactive drugs (called radiopharmaceuticals or …

Systemic therapy travels through your blood to cells all over your body, to your whole "system". Traditionally, most systemic therapy was called chemotherapy (or "chemo") and was often …

Oct 1, 2024 · Types of systemic therapies for breast cancer include chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted-drug therapy and immunotherapy. "The goal of systemic therapy is to either …

In the last half of the century, advances in the systemic therapy of cancer, including chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy have been …

Treatment using substances that travel through the bloodstream, reaching and affecting cells all over the body.

Drug treatments (such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or targeted therapy) are often called "systemic" treatments because they can affect the entire body. Learn about the most common …

Chemotherapy is a form of systemic treatment that uses medications to kill cancer cells or to stop them from growing. Immunotherapy is a systemic cancer treatment that stimulates the body's …

About 50% of lung cancer patients are initially treated with chemotherapy to help cure, control, or ease the symptoms of lung cancer. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy are often given …

Systemic treatment is any medication that travels through your body in the bloodstream to find, damage or destroy cancer cells. It includes chemotherapy, checkpoint inhibitor, hormone …

Systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) includes different treatment modalities that can be effective in treating cancer. However, in the case of disease progression, cancers might become …

Mar 1, 2024 · Antibody–drug conjugates deliver cytotoxic drugs to specific targets, thereby increasing efficacy and reducing side effects. In this review, we explore clinical use of systemic …

Breast cancer treatment most often starts with surgery. Your care team may recommend systemic therapies to help treat the cancer. You may have neoadjuvant (NEE-oh-A-joo-vant) therapy, …

Chemotherapy for breast cancer may be the most commonly known systemic therapy, but there are several treatments like hormone therapy and molecularly-target therapy. Systemic …

3 days ago · This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) reports on systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) activity across NHS services in Scotland. Treatment activity includes the …

Systemic cancer therapy includes chemotherapy (ie, conventional or cytotoxic chemotherapy), hormone therapy, targeted therapy, and immune therapy (see also Overview of Cancer Therapy).

Feb 5, 2025 · Chemotherapy and immunotherapy can be given in a number of different ways, depending on what kind of cancer you have, and how long you need treatment. Most SACT is …

5 days ago · The treatment landscape for HCC is rapidly evolving, driven by recent landmark trial results exploring innovative strategies and drug combinations. This review examines these …

Sep 9, 2024 · In recent years, treatment options for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC) have increased significantly due to the positive results from phase 2/3 clinical trials of …

Systemic treatment is a form of cancer treatment, which uses drugs that circulate through the body to cure or slow down the progression of cancer. These treatments may alter hormone …

4 days ago · Dr. Richard Vile, a Mayo Clinic immunologist and cancer researcher, explains how CAR-T cell therapy works, including the benefits, risks and realities of treatment.

6 days ago · The WOLVERINE study analyzed five trials and found metastasis-directed therapy -- primarily radiation -- may delay castration resistance and improve other long-term outcomes in …

4 days ago · Brain metastases occur in nearly 20% of all patients with cancer and are associated with substantial neurological morbidity 1, 2. Improvements in systemic cancer therapy have …

Patients must have completed previous systemic therapy for at least five half-lives or 2 weeks, whichever is shorter, prior to study dosing Patients who received chemotherapy must have …

Feb 21, 2025 · Treatment Treatment for metastatic prostate cancer often starts with hormone therapy. This treatment blocks the effects of hormones that prostate cancer cells use to help …