EDITING: chemo at Konkuk ... docetaxol and gemcitabine
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</div><p><br> doctors at KonKuk said they would recommend the following treatment: <font size=+2>Docetaxel & Gemcitabine<br><br>Google says<br><blockquote><font color=blue>Docetaxel (Taxotere®) is a chemotherapy drug that is given as a treatment for some types of cancer. It is most commonly used to treat breast cancer, prostate cancer and non-small cell lung cancer, but may be used for many other types of ...</blockquote><br>and such, docetaxel doesn't appear to be of the right kind as for what's needed for sarcoma.<br><br>Now, <font color=blue>Gemcitabine is :<br><blockquote> As with fluorouracil and other analogues of pyrimidines, the drug replaces one of the building blocks of nucleic acids, in this case cytidine, during DNA replication. The process arrests tumor growth, as new nucleosides cannot be attached to the "faulty" nucleoside, resulting in apoptosis (cellular "suicide").<br></blockquote><br><br> <br><CENTER><IMG SRC="http://blog.sirfsup.com/~jcs/us/divider_rainbow.gif" WIDTH="60% HEIGHT=6 ALT="----------------------------------------------------------------------"> </center><p>
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