Novel oral anticoagulant prescriptions soar, but at a high cost
8/21/2014
Warfarin, the longtime standard treatment for atrial fibrillation, is facing competition from new options in the anticoagulant drug marketplace including dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban.
Web-based app developed to predict glioma mutations
8/21/2014
A new web-based program developed by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers will provide a simple, free way for healthcare providers to determine which brain tumor cases require...
Multiplying immune-system cells to battle pediatric leukemia
8/21/2014
Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have shown that a select team of immune-system cells from patients with leukemia can be multiplied in the lab, creating an army of natural killer cells...
Gastric cancer: could Botox be an alternative to chemo?
8/21/2014
Research into the role of the vagal nerve in stomach cancer has led to novel methods for severing the nerve-tumor connection. One of these, surprisingly, is Botox injections.
A recent study reported by Haigang Chang and co-workers from the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University in China verified the effects of transient axonal glycoprotein-1 (TAG-1) on...
Dasatinib, a leukemia drug, has the potential to treat many cancers
8/21/2014
A leukemia drug called dasatinib shows promise for treating skin, breast and several other cancers, according to researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Patient, tumor characteristics for high-mitotic rate melanoma
8/20/2014
A study in Australia examined patient and tumor characteristics for melanomas with higher mitotic rates (a marker of tumor cell growth) in an effort to increase earlier detection of this aggressive...
Patient perspectives on breast reconstruction following mastectomy
8/20/2014
Less than 42 percent of women underwent breast reconstruction following a mastectomy for cancer, and the factors associated with foregoing reconstruction included being black, having a lower...
Laser tweezers show malaria invading red blood cells
8/20/2014
Scientists have not been able to study in detail the malaria parasite as it rapidly escapes one blood cell to invade another. Now, using laser optical tweezers, they can.
Turkish man pleads guilty to importing illegal cancer drugs
8/20/2014
Sabahaddin Akman, owner of the Istanbul, Turkey, firm Ozay Pharmaceuticals, has pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling misbranded and adulterated cancer treatment drugs into the United States.