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Surgery, radiotherapy for early-stage breast cancer 'may not reduce mortality'
8/21/2015
While women with very early-stage breast cancer are at greater risk of death, researchers find treating the condition with surgery and radiotherapy does not reduce mortality.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers publish landmark 'basket study'
8/21/2015
Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have announced results from the first published basket study, a new form of clinical trial design that explores responses to drugs based...
Approval follows positive CHMP opinion based on pivotal Phase II study showing durable objective response rate per central review of 56% in patients with laBCC1 Basal cell carcinoma is the...
Afatinib: Added benefit in certain mutations confirmed
8/21/2015
Afatinib (trade name: Giotrif) has been approved since September 2013 for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating EGF...
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers publish landmark 'basket study'
8/21/2015
Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have announced results from the first published basket study, a new form of clinical trial design that explores responses to drugs based...
Carnegie Mellon-led team identifies structure of tumor-suppressing protein
8/21/2015
An international group of researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University physicists Mathias Lösche and Frank Heinrich have established the structure of an important tumor suppressing protein, PTEN.
PET imaging detects fast-growing prostate cancer
8/21/2015
PSMA-based PET to distinguish benign prostate lesions and prostate cancerA molecular imaging biomarker is able to detect fast-growing primary prostate cancer and distinguish it from benign...
The human genome: A complex orchestra
8/21/2015
A team of Swiss geneticists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) discovered that genetic variation has...
Lighting up cancer cells to identify low concentrations of diseased cells
8/21/2015
New study published in the inaugural issue of Applied Materials Today describes development of 'Heavy metal cancer spies'Researchers in China have developed tiny nanocrystals that could be used...
Defeating breast cancer through crowdsourcing
8/21/2015
A California software company, YourScan.org, has put out a call to women who have had to face the difficult diagnosis of breast cancer: Donate your mammogram images to a crowdsourcing campaign and...