For Hard-To-Treat Cancers, Novel Drug Combination Offers Therapeutic Promise
9/14/2011
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified a new combination of targeted therapies that, together, may treat two aggressive tumor types that until now have not had effective treatments. These findings are published in Cancer Cell on September 13, 2011. While numerous anti-cancer drugs are being developed, many tumors do not respond to currently available single therapies...
X-Ray Protein Probe Leads To Potential Anticancer Tactic
9/14/2011
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have identified a new type of potential anticancer drug. The compound, named FOBISIN, targets 14-3-3 proteins, important for the runaway growth of cancer cells. The researchers were using X-rays to see how FOBISIN fits into the clamp-shaped 14-3-3 protein structure...
New Combined-Tool Imaging May Spot Hard To Detect Ovarian Cancer
9/13/2011
Using only minimally invasive surgery, a device that combines three previously unrelated imaging tools may help diagnose hard to detect early-stage ovarian cancer in high-risk women, thanks to the efforts of researchers from the University of Connecticut and the University of Southern California in the US...
Colon Cancer - Considerable Rise In Lymph Node Numbers Not Associated With In Node-Positive Cancers
9/13/2011
A study in the September 14 issue of JAMA revealed, that the increase in the percentage of patients who have a high number of lymph nodes evaluated during colon cancer operations has increased significantly during the past two decades, however, this improvement is not linked to an increase in the overall proportion of colon cancers that are node positive...
New Combined-Tool Imaging May Spot Hard To Detect Ovarian Cancer
9/13/2011
Using only minimally invasive surgery, a device that combines three previously unrelated imaging tools may help diagnose hard to detect early-stage ovarian cancer in high-risk women, thanks to the efforts of researchers from the University of Connecticut and the University of Southern California in the US...
IUDs May Reduce Cervical Cancer Risk
9/13/2011
Women who use intrauterine devices may not just be preventing pregnancy but may also be protecting themselves from cervical cancer, according to a new study involving more than 20,000 women in different countries that was published in The Lancet Oncology today...
IUDs May Reduce Cervical Cancer Risk
9/13/2011
Women who use intrauterine devices may not just be preventing pregnancy but may also be protecting themselves from cervical cancer, according to a new study involving more than 20,000 women in different countries that was published in The Lancet Oncology today...
Chemotherapy Delivered By 'Trojan Horse' To Kill Ovarian Cancer Cells
9/13/2011
A common chemotherapy drug has been successfully delivered to cancer cells inside tiny microparticles using a method inspired by our knowledge of how the human immune system works. The drug, delivered in this way, reduced ovarian cancer tumours in an animal model by 65 times more than using the standard method. This approach is now being developed for clinical use...
Discovery Of Stable RNA Nano-Scaffold Within Virus Core
9/13/2011
With the discovery of a RNA nano-scaffold that remains unusually stable in the body, researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have overcome another barrier to the development of therapeutic RNA nanotechnology...
Chemotherapy Delivered By 'Trojan Horse' To Kill Ovarian Cancer Cells
9/13/2011
A common chemotherapy drug has been successfully delivered to cancer cells inside tiny microparticles using a method inspired by our knowledge of how the human immune system works. The drug, delivered in this way, reduced ovarian cancer tumours in an animal model by 65 times more than using the standard method. This approach is now being developed for clinical use...