Some Difficult Types Of Leukemia May Be Treated With Cardiovascular Drug
9/13/2011
A drug now prescribed for cardiovascular problems could become a new tool in physicians' arsenals to attack certain types of leukemia that so far have evaded effective treatments, researchers say. The drug, Fasudil, has been used to treat stroke patients because it is a vasodilator, meaning it dilates blood vessels...
Women Who Inherit BRCA Gene Mutations Develop Cancer Earlier Than Their Ancestors
9/13/2011
A new analysis has found that women who develop certain hereditary cancers develop them at earlier ages than women in the previous generation. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results point to the importance of tracking younger ages of cancer diagnosis to determine when to provide counseling, screening, and treatment services...
Oncothyreon Inc. (Nasdaq: ONTY) announced enrollment of the first patient in a Phase 2 trial of PX-866 in patients with recurrent or metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. PX-866 is a small molecule compound designed to inhibit the activity of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI-3K), a component of an important cell survival signaling pathway...
Blood Samples Reveal Lung Cancer Signatures, May Aid In Early Detection
9/13/2011
Lung cancer is one of the most common and deadly types of cancer. Mouse models of lung cancer recapitulate many features of the human disease and have provided new insight about cancer development, progression and treatment...
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Sept. 12, 2011
9/13/2011
EDITOR'S PICK: BVES butts heads with colorectal cancer Once a cancer gains the ability to invade local tissues and spread to a distant site it becomes much harder to treat...
Researchers Warn Against Combining Chemotherapy And Fish Oil
9/13/2011
Researchers at University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, have discovered a substance that has an adverse effect on nearly all types of chemotherapy - making cancer cells insensitive to the treatment. Chemotherapy often loses effectiveness over time. It is often unclear how or why this happens...
Researchers Discover Blood Proteins Associated With Early Development Of Lung Cancer
9/13/2011
A research team led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has discovered proteins in the blood that are associated with early lung cancer development in mice and humans. The advance brings the reality of a blood test for the early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer a step closer. The findings, by a team led by Samir Hanash, M.D., Ph.D...
Positive Phase 2 Trial Results From Neuroendocrine Tumor Cohort Presented At CIRSE
9/13/2011
Delcath Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCTH) announced that updated results from the metastatic neuroendocrine tumor (mNET) cohort of the Company's recently completed Phase 2 clinical trial were presented at the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) congress held this week in Munich, Germany. James F...
Cancer Prevention Tips By Age
9/13/2011
Men who maintain a healthy body throughout life are often better able to fight off diseases like cancer. That's why experts at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have created a guide with cancer prevention tips to help men at every stage of life. "Practicing the healthy behaviors in our guide is important for all men, regardless of age," said Therese Bevers, M.D...
First Proof In Patients Of An Improved "Magic Bullet" For Cancer Detection And Radio-Therapy
9/13/2011
Oncologists have long sought a powerful "magic bullet" that can find tumors wherever they hide in the body so that they can be imaged and then destroyed. Until recently scientists accepted the notion that such an agent, an agonist, needed to enter and accumulate in the cancerous cells to act...