Improved Understanding Of Childhood Brain Tumors Should Lead To New Treatments
6/19/2012
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have identified three sets of genetic markers that could potentially pave the way for new diagnostic tools for a deadly type of brain tumour that mainly targets children...
Network Approach To Drug Design May Yield More Effective And Less Toxic Cancer Drugs
6/19/2012
A new approach to drug design, pioneered by a group of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Mt. Sinai, New York, promises to help identify future drugs to fight cancer and other diseases that will be more effective and have fewer side effects...
WILEX AG (ISIN DE0006614720 / WL6 / Frankfurt Stock Exchange) published data last week from its Phase II trial with its oral drug candidate MESUPRON® in first line treatment of patients with HER2-receptor negative metastatic breast cancer...
Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Resistance - Genes Identified
6/18/2012
Chemotherapy before surgery is not always effective against some tumors. Now, a study published in Nature Medicine reveals that researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) have identified a gene expression pattern associated to resistance to breast cancer chemotherapy. In addition, the study findings suggest new treatment options for individuals with specific subtypes of breast cancer...
Research presented in the July 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of Thoracic Oncology, concluded that patients with limited large cell neuroendocrine tumors or with limited stage small-cell lung cancer who were treated with perioperative chemotherapy and surgery had better overall survival outcomes than patients treated with surgery alone...
Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Effective Treatment For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
6/18/2012
Until recently, many elderly patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer were left untreated because treatment may not improve their quality of life. However, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) has become one of the standards of treatment for these patients. The outpatient treatment given over a two-week period allows frail patients to undergo the treatment...
Computed tomographic colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, administered without laxatives is as accurate as conventional colonoscopy in detecting clinically significant, potentially cancerous polyps, according to a study performed jointly at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, the University of California, San Francisco and Massachusetts General Hospital...
Preclinical Study Links Aging And Cancer, With Lethal Host Metabolism In The Tumor Microenvironment
6/18/2012
It has long been known that cancer is a disease of aging, but a molecular link between the two has remained elusive...
The Hidden Cost Of False-Positive Mammograms
6/18/2012
False-positive mammogram results deter women from attending further screening appointments and undermine the effectiveness of breast cancer screening programs, according to a study published in the 18 June issue of the Medical Journal of Australia. Dr Elizabeth Wylie from BreastScreen WA, and coauthors found that 70...
How Often Does Early Breast Cancer Metastasise?
6/18/2012
Women diagnosed with early breast cancer can now be offered important information about prognosis according to the authors of research published in the June 18 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia...