New drug regimen 'reduces early menopause risk' for breast cancer patients
6/01/2014
Researchers find that adding a drug called goserelin to chemotherapy treatment could reduce risk of early menopause and infertility for breast cancer patients.
New mechanism explaining how cancer cells spread highlighted by international collaboration
5/31/2014
UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers have identified a protein critical to the spread of deadly cancer cells and determined how it works, paving the way for potential use in diagnosis...
Educational and behavioral program to reduce lymphedema risk
5/31/2014
The study, designed to promote lymph flow and optimize body mass index (BMI) after breast cancer surgery, saw a 97% success rate for patients in the program one year after surgery.
Injected 'nanodaisies' deliver drug cocktail to cancer cells
5/31/2014
Biomedical engineering researchers have developed daisy-shaped, nanoscale structures that are made predominantly of anti-cancer drugs and are capable of introducing a "cocktail" of multiple drugs...
Researchers investigate cancer-fighting properties of mango
5/30/2014
In addition to being one of the most important tropical fruits consumed worldwide, recent studies by researchers at the Institute for Obesity Research and Program Evaluation at Texas A&M University...
Major discovery on the mechanism of drug resistance in leukemia and other cancers
5/30/2014
A mechanism that enables the development of resistance to Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) anticancer drugs, thereby leading to relapse, has been identified by Kathy Borden of the University of...
Artificial lung the size of a sugar cube may completely replace animal testing
5/30/2014
What medications can be used to treat lung cancer, and how effective are they? Until now, drug companies have had to rely on animal testing to find out.
Researchers investigate cancer-fighing properties of mango
5/30/2014
In addition to being one of the most important tropical fruits consumed worldwide, recent studies by researchers at the Institute for Obesity Research and Program Evaluation at Texas A&M University...
Alterations in LRIG1 gene may increase the risk for breast cancer relapse and death
5/30/2014
Women whose early-stage breast cancers had reduced numbers of copies of the LRIG1 gene were more likely to have a relapse or die of their disease, according to data published in Cancer Research, a...
T cell repertoire changes predictive of anti-CTLA-4 cancer immunotherapy outcome
5/30/2014
Sequenta, Inc. has announced publication of a study done in collaboration with researchers from UCSF and UCLA that used the company's proprietary LymphoSIGHT™ immune repertoire sequencing...