chemo at Konkuk ... docetaxol and gemcitabine

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Posted by joe on June 29, 2008 at 17:19:09:

In Reply to: chemo posted by joe on June 24, 2008 at 00:30:50:

doctors at KonKuk said they would recommend the following treatment: Docetaxel & Gemcitabine

Google says

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 ...

and such, docetaxel doesn't appear to be of the right kind as for what's needed for sarcoma.

Now, Gemcitabine is :

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").

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