Zytiga - New Prostate Cancer Drug
6/08/2012
Results from a phase III trial reveal that men with advanced prostate cancer can significantly benefit from a new medication, abiraterone acetate, called Zytiga. The researchers found that the drug maintained patients' quality of life, slowed down the spread of cancer, and delayed the development of pain and deterioration of the patients' overall condition...
New Drug Effective In Treating Skin Cancer
6/08/2012
A new drug has been shown to be effective in treating and preventing the most common cancer in the United States: basal cell carcinoma skin cancer, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine...
An Israeli physicist has developed a theoretical model to simulate the evolution of highly proliferating brain tumour core cells subjected to treatment by alternating radio frequency electric field. The research, by Alexander Iomin from the Israel Institute of Technology Technion in Haifa, is about to be published in EPJ E¹...
Fewer Side Effects From Nanomedicines For Cancer Treatment
6/08/2012
A new generation of cancer treatments based on nanotechnology is making its way out of the laboratory and into the clinic with the promise of targeting cancer cells while steering clear of healthy tissue, according to the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN;). C&EN; is the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society...
Metastatic Breast Cancer May Be Slowed By HIV Drug
6/08/2012
The HIV drugs known as CCR5 antagonists may also help prevent aggressive breast cancers from metastasizing, researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson suggest in a preclinical study published in a recent issue of Cancer Research...
CT Scans Raise Cancer Risk For Children
6/08/2012
With MRI scans becoming cheaper and more common, perhaps the days of the CT scan that does a similar function using X-Rays rather than magnetic fields, are numbered. A report shows that the cancer risk from CT scans, especially Brain Cancer and Leukemia can triple in some cases...
A study by Travis H. Stracker, researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), in collaboration with scientists at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, reveals new information about the origin of tumors...
Childhood Cancer Survivors Have High Risk Of Gastrointestinal Cancers Later On
6/07/2012
Individuals who survive cancer before age 21 are nearly 5 times more likely to subsequently develop gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine...
Innovative Fluorescence Imaging Helps Surgeons Remove Just The Tumor, Rather Than The Whole Kidney
6/07/2012
A surgical technology called Firefly is shedding new light on kidney cancers and helping doctors at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital remove tumors more safely and more efficiently while sparing the rest of the healthy kidney...
The Existence Discovered Of An Antitumor Molecule That Has Been Originated Within An Oncogene
6/07/2012
A common point in all human tumors is that they produce an activation of oncogenes, genes that cause cancer and they also cause a loss of function of the protective genes, called anti-oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. Normally both categories of anticancer and procancer genes are in different regions of our chromosomes...