New Strategy Developed To Overcome Drug-Resistant Childhood Cancer
7/13/2012
A new drug combination could offer hope to children with neuroblastoma - one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer - by boosting the effectiveness of a promising new gene-targeted treatment...
Exploring The Healing Powers Of Singing
7/13/2012
The Welsh cancer charity Tenovus and Cardiff University, both based in the UK, have reported that participation in a choir improves a number of quality of life factors for cancer survivors and their carers. In an effort to create a community for cancer survivors and their carers, Tenovus established the choir, Sing for Life, in 2010...
Researchers Discover Switch That Lets Early Lung Cancer Grow Unchecked
7/13/2012
Cellular change thought to happen only in late-stage cancers to help tumors spread also occurs in early-stage lung cancer as a way to bypass growth controls, say researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida...
Skin Cancer Self Exam By Use Of Mobile App
7/12/2012
Each year, over 2 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with skin cancer. 50,000 of these will be diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. Regular skin checks can assist in detecting melanoma in its earliest stages. Cancer screening has just gone mobile with a new free app called UMSkinCheck, downloadable on iTunes...
Breast Cancer Molecular "Post-It-Note" Warns Of Metastasis Spread Risk
7/12/2012
According to a new report published in the BJC (British Journal of Cancer), a molecular "post-it note" added to breast cancer genes could identify the risk that the disease will spread in patients...
Chickens May Provide Clues For Battling Cancer
7/12/2012
International researchers have discovered that a common chicken could provide some very un-common clues for tackling diseases. The study, published in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists, might even offer new ways to attack cancer...
Targeting Cancer With Decreased Toxicity: First-Of-Its-Kind Approach To Designing Nanomedicines
7/12/2012
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) are the first to report a new approach that integrates rational drug design with supramolecular nanochemistry in cancer treatment. Supramolecular chemistry is the development of complex chemical systems using molecular building blocks...
New Breast Cancer Treatment Available In France
7/12/2012
Reimbursement granted for Halaven® (eribulin) for women with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer Halaven® (eribulin), a novel treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer who have progressed after at least two chemotherapeutic regimens for advanced disease, has today received reimbursement approval from the French health authorities...
Metastatic Breast Cancer: Bevacizumab Slows Progression, But Has No Impact On Survival
7/12/2012
The cancer drug bevacizumab (Avastin®) offers only a modest benefit in prolonging disease progression in patients with advanced stage breast cancer, according to a systematic review by Cochrane researchers...
In Bone Marrow Transplant Patients, Maraviroc Reduces Graft-Vs.-Host Disease
7/12/2012
An HIV drug that redirects immune cell traffic significantly reduces the incidence of a dangerous complication that often follows bone marrow transplants for blood cancer patients, according to research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, published in the New England Journal of Medicine...