New imaging technique could revolutionise how children with neuroblastoma are diagnosed and treated
10/01/2014
Cancer Research UK's Centre for Drug Development (CDD), in collaboration with the Rising Tide Foundation, a Swiss-based non-profit organisation which funds innovative cancer trials, has announced...
Study: tumor BRACAnalysis CDx identifies 44 percent more candidates for PARP therapy
10/01/2014
Myriad Genetics, Inc. has announced that its Tumor BRACAnalysis CDx™ companion diagnostic test significantly improved the detection of cancer-causing BRCA1/2 mutations by 44 percent in women...
Immunotherapy could stop resistance to radiotherapy
10/01/2014
Treating cancers with immunotherapy and radiotherapy at the same time could stop them from becoming resistant to treatment, according to a study published in Cancer Research.
Thyroid cancer: additional new subgroup analyses for Phase III SELECT trial
10/01/2014
A new analysis from the Phase III SELECT (Study of (E7080) LEnvatinib in Differentiated Cancer of the Thyroid) trial of lenvatinib (E7080) in the treatment of radioiodine-refractory differentiated...
Breast density: over 700,000 UK women living with 'hidden' breast cancer risk
10/01/2014
Risk Determination and Prevention of Breast Cancer[1], published in the journal Breast Cancer Research, identifies the critical gaps that must be addressed if we are to reverse the increase in...
Lungs from donors who die from drowning, asphyxiation may be safe for transplant
10/01/2014
Researchers claim transplanting lungs from donors who die from drowning or asphyxiation appears to be safe and may be a way of 'expanding the donor pool.'
For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and...
Overuse of colonoscopies
10/01/2014
A retrospective study led by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), has found an overuse of colonoscopies for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance.
Making diagnostic medical imaging safer
10/01/2014
Medical imaging is at the forefront of diagnostics today, with imaging techniques like MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computerized tomography), scanning, and NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance)...
Study defines an interaction between key proteins in cell division
10/01/2014
The results may aid in improving oncological therapies designed to block these division processes, and therefore limit the proliferation and expansion of tumor cellsResearchers from Guillermo...