Dose of measles virus destroys woman's incurable cancer
5/19/2014
For over 6 months, a 49-year-old woman with incurable bone marrow cancer was completely clear of disease, following a single high dose of measles virus - proving virotherapy works.
Proof that cancer stem cells exist?
5/19/2014
Genetic tracking of patients with a rare blood disorder shows that cancer-driving mutations arise in a small subset of cells that bear all the hallmarks of cancer stem cells.
CRYSTAL analysis shows clinical benefit of Erbitux in RAS wild-type mCRC patients
5/19/2014
Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, has announced new biomarker findings from a retrospective analysis of the completed Phase III study CRYSTAL that compared Erbitux®...
VHL Alliance and NORD launch new international databank
5/19/2014
The VHL Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy organization supporting patients and families affected by von Hippel-Lindau, has launched a new international databank aimed at better understanding this...
Significant exposure to nicotine and cancer-causing agents caused by water pipe smoking
5/19/2014
Young adults who smoked water pipes in hookah bars had elevated levels of nicotine, cotinine, tobacco-related cancer-causing agents, and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in their urine, and this may...
New tool to grow cancer cells streamlines laboratory research
5/19/2014
A new technique that allows the growth of both normal and cancer cells and keeps them alive indefinitely is transforming and expediting basic cancer research, say investigators from Georgetown...
Genetic tracking identifies cancer stem cells in human patients
5/19/2014
The gene mutations driving cancer have been tracked for the first time in patients back to a distinct set of cells at the root of cancer - cancer stem cells.
Spotting blood clots in at-risk patients via urine test
5/19/2014
A new study by researchers from California and Canada indicates a simple urine test can indicate the presence of venous thromboembolism, a blood clot that has broken free from its point of origin and...
Tumor cells in the blood may indicate poor prognosis in early breast cancer
5/19/2014
Tumor cells in bone marrow of early breast cancer patients predict a higher risk of relapse as well as poorer survival, but bone marrow biopsy is an invasive and painful procedure.
UCLA study finds "low-risk" prostate cancer often not low-risk when targeted biopsy is used
5/19/2014
More and more men who believe they have low-risk prostate cancers are opting for active surveillance, forgoing treatment and monitoring the cancer closely with prostate-specific antigen (PSA)...