AABB Recognizes World Blood Donor Day On June 14
6/07/2011
AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) will observe World Blood Donor Day on June 14 to help bring attention to the need for safe blood and blood products around the world. The association is encouraging its individual and institutional members to plan celebrations as a way to thank eligible donors who volunteer to give blood...
Unequivocal results from a clinical trial released today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology reveal that men with prostate cancer who are treated with intermittent courses of androgen-suppressing therapy will live as long as those receiving continuous therapy...
The Genetics Of Melanoma Chemoresistance
6/07/2011
Malignant melanoma is a highly aggressive and notoriously chemoresistant form of cancer. In this paper, Ohanna et al. reveal that anti-melanoma drugs may, paradoxically, induce a senescence-associated secretory profile ("secretome") that can ultimately promote metastasis and contribute to melanoma relapse...
Patients with a very aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma who receive a stem cell transplant after standard chemotherapy during their first remission have comparable survival rates to those who receive the same standard therapy alone and, if needed, a transplant when they relapse. These findings from a U.S...
Interim Study Shows Novel Experimental Agent Is Highly Active In CLL Patients
6/07/2011
An interim analysis of a phase II clinical trial indicates that a novel experimental agent for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is highly active and well tolerated both in patients who are undergoing treatment for the first time and those who have relapsed and are resistant to other therapy...
World's Leading Cancer Organizations Announce New Efforts In Response To The Global Cancer Crisis
6/07/2011
Today at a press briefing, leaders from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), and the American Cancer Society (ACS) announced new efforts to respond to the cancer epidemic occurring in low- and middle-income countries, and called on President Obama and other world leaders to take action at the upcoming United Nation...
In Phase 2 Trial New Glioblastoma Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise
6/07/2011
The first results of a multicenter Phase 2 clinical trial on a new brain cancer vaccine tailored to a patient's own tumor wase announced on Monday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2011 Annual Meeting in Chicago. The trial, conducted at three U.S...
Gene Fault Could Predict Ovarian Cancer Drug Success
6/07/2011
FAULTS in a gene commonly inactivated in many different types of cancer could be used to predict which drug combination ovarian cancer patients are most likely to benefit from, according to results presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology...
Federal Budget: Caregiver Commitment And Palliative Care Funding, Canada
6/07/2011
A new family caregiver tax credit announced in today's federal government budget is an important step forward in providing more support for family caregivers, says the Canadian Cancer Society...
UF Researchers Show New Way To Target Tumor Cells
6/07/2011
Whether a tumor flourishes or dies depends, to an extent, on the acidity of the environment in which it lives, and a certain enzyme plays a key role in that balance, according to new research from the University of Florida...