Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New treatment shows promise against recurrent gynecologic cancers
Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 7th, 2009
April 21, 2009 – (BRONX, NY) – Recurrent and metastatic endometrial and ovarian cancers can be notoriously difficult to treat: They have spread to other organs and typically have developed resistance to chemotherapy; and patients already heavily treated with chemotherapy may not be able to endure more chemo. Now, physicians at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that a combination of two chemotherapy drugs not only produced clinical benefit for such patients but were also well tolerated. The findings are published online in the journal Gynecologic Oncology.
"Women with recurrent gynecologic cancers have often had multiple rounds of...
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