Avastin Wins FDA Approval For Colorectal Cancer Treatment
1/25/2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of Roche's Avastin for patients with colorectal cancer that has gotten worse despite treatment with the medication. This new approval will permit patients who were already treated once with Avastin plus chemotherapy to be treated again with Avastin in combination with a different chemotherapy regimen...
Carcinogenic Fumes From Chinese E-Waste Site Increase Lung Cancer Risk In Local Residents
1/25/2013
Residents living near an e-waste recycling site in China face elevated risks of lung cancer, according to a recent study co-authored by Oregon State University researchers. Electronic trash, such as cell phones, computers and TVs, is often collected in dumps in developing countries and crudely incinerated to recover precious metals, including silver, gold, palladium and copper...
Roche's Avastin Approved For Colon Cancer Treatment By FDA
1/25/2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of Roche's Avastin for patients with colorectal cancer that has gotten worse despite treatment with the medication. This new approval will permit patients who were already treated once with Avastin plus chemotherapy to be treated again with Avastin in combination with a different chemotherapy regimen...
New Method Predicts Brain Cancer Outcome And Quickly Shows If Therapy Is Effective
1/25/2013
The critical question shortly after a brain cancer patient starts treatment: how well is it working? But there hasn't been a good way to gauge that. Now Northwestern Medicine researchers have developed a new method -- similar to forecasting storms with computer models -- to predict an individual patient's brain tumor growth...
Lung and head and neck cancer patients who smoked before surgery are more likely to relapse than those who had quit before surgery, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers say. They found that smoking-relapse prevention interventions are needed immediately after surgery to help prevent relapse. The study was published in a recent issue of the journal Cancer...
Mutant 'Drivers' Of Meningiomas Identified By Genomic Sequencing
1/25/2013
Large-scale genomic sequencing has revealed two DNA mutations that appear to drive about 15 percent of brain tumors known as meningiomas, a finding that could lead to the first effective drug treatments for the tumors, report scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute...
Modification Of Circadian Rhythms For Potential Treatment Of Disorders
1/25/2013
UC Irvine-led studies have revealed the cellular mechanism by which circadian rhythms - also known as the body clock - modify energy metabolism and also have identified novel compounds that control this action. The findings point to potential treatments for disorders triggered by circadian rhythm dysfunction, ranging from insomnia and obesity to diabetes and cancer...
Natural Switch Discovered That Controls Spread Of Breast Cancer Cells
1/25/2013
With a desire to inhibit metastasis, Cornell biomedical engineers have found the natural switch between the body's inflammatory response and how malignant breast cancer cells use the bloodstream to spread.* Pro-inflammatory signaling molecules in blood called cytokines constitute a "switch" that induces the mechanism by which breast cancer cells "roll" and adhere to the blood vessel surface...
Promising Prognostic Marker Discovered For Aggressive Breast Cancer
1/25/2013
A team of researchers led by Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and collaborators at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Erasmus Medical Center, have discovered a gene variant that drives the spread of breast cancer...
Carcinogenic Fumes From Chinese E-Waste Site Increase Lung Cancer Risk In Local Residents
1/25/2013
Residents living near an e-waste recycling site in China face elevated risks of lung cancer, according to a recent study co-authored by Oregon State University researchers. Electronic trash, such as cell phones, computers and TVs, is often collected in dumps in developing countries and crudely incinerated to recover precious metals, including silver, gold, palladium and copper...