Significant Breakthrough Has Implications For Throat And Cervical Cancer
8/10/2012
A major breakthrough by scientists at Queen's could lead to more effective treatments for throat and cervical cancer. The discovery could see the development of new therapies, which would target the non-cancerous cells surrounding a tumour, as well as treating the tumour itself...
Genomic Study Of Rare Children's Cancer Yields Possible Prognostic Tool
8/10/2012
A new study of the genetic makeup, or genome, of Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer that strikes children, teenagers, and young adults, has produced multiple discoveries: a previously unknown sarcoma subtype, genetic factors related to long-term survival, and identification of a genetic change between the primary and metastatic stages of the disease that could lead to better, more targeted treatment...
From today, patients in the UK with certain types of soft tissue sarcomas (STS) could benefit from the first oral therapy for advanced stages of the disease...
Report-Based Study also Finds Children Born to Older Fathers or to Mothers with STDs at Greater RiskIn a large epidemiologic study, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center found that the children of U.S.-born Latina women are at higher risk of having retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor of the retina which typically occurs in children under six...
Cancer Study Reveals Advantages Of IV Intraluminal Protection Device
8/10/2012
Lower Occlusion Rates and Large Cost Savings Reported in Presentation at European Oncology Nursing Society An IV connector known as an intraluminal protection device (IPD) outperformed a negative-pressure split septum IV connector, in a prospective clinical study that compared the occlusion rates of two IV connectors...
Researchers Collect And Reuse Enzymes While Maintaining Bioactivity
8/10/2012
Clemson University researchers are collecting and harvesting enzymes while maintaining the enzyme's bioactivity. Their work, a new model system that may impact cancer research, is published in the journal Small.* Enzymes are round proteins produced by living organisms that increase the rate of chemical reactions...
Significant Breakthrough Has Implications For Throat And Cervical Cancer
8/10/2012
A major breakthrough by scientists at Queen's could lead to more effective treatments for throat and cervical cancer. The discovery could see the development of new therapies, which would target the non-cancerous cells surrounding a tumour, as well as treating the tumour itself...
Using Heat As A Cancer Treatment
8/10/2012
Research at Bangor University has identified a switch in cells that may help to kill tumors with heat. Prostate cancer and other localized tumors can be effectively treated by a combination of heat and an anti-cancer drug that damages the genes. Behind this novel therapy is the enigmatic ability of heat to switch off essential survival mechanisms in human cells...
Scientists Find A Breakthrough Method Of Improving Chemotherapy
8/09/2012
Even though chemotherapy kills tumor cells, it also causes damage to the rest of the body. However, a team of researchers from South Carolina's College of Pharmacy has now discovered a new class of drugs that can decrease the adverse effects that chemotherapy causes in cellular damage...
Clavis Pharma ASA (OSE: CLAVIS), the Norwegian cancer drug development company, announces that a Phase I study of CP-4126 (CO-101) in combination with cisplatin in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been initiated by its partner Clovis Oncology. The first patient has now been dosed in this two-part study, which is being conducted at cancer centres in the USA and the UK...