Oncology in Biological News

Lithium may help radiation target cancer, spare healthy tissue

... noted Xia, an assistant professor of Radiation oncology and Cancer Biology. "Because these patients ... led by Dennis Hallahan, M.D., chair of Radiation oncology and the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research ... Yang, M.D., Ph.D., a resident in the Radiation oncology department and an American Board of Radiology ...

Personalized treatment for early lung cancer

... European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic oncology (EMCTO) in Lugano, Switzerland (1-3 May 2009). ... Prof Paris Kosmidis, head of the second Medical oncology Department at Hygeia Hospital in Athens, Greece. ... European Multidisciplinary Conference on Thoracic oncology is organized by the European Society for ...

CHIs 5th Biomarker World Congress: Signature Event with Cutting-Edge Agenda

... Trials Biomarker Qualification oncology Drugs & Diagnostics Pre-Conference ... Iman El-Hariry, M.D., Ph.D., Group Director, oncology MDC, GlaxoSmithKline Research & Development ... Darren Hodgson, Ph.D., Biomics Advisor, oncology Therapy Area, AstraZeneca Arthur L. ...

European Multidisciplinary Conference on Thoracic Oncology

... The European Society for Medical oncology (ESMO), the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and oncology (ESTRO), the European Society of Thoracic ... European Multidisciplinary Conference on Thoracic oncology (EMCTO). This meeting will provide a ...

CAPHOSOL relieves oral mucositis and improves quality-of-life in cancer patients

... session, at the 33rd Annual Congress of the oncology Nursing Society (ONS). These data confirm that CAPHOSOL is a useful tool to help oncology nurses and other healthcare professionals in the ... said Dr. Haas. CAPHOSOL is useful for oncology nurses and other healthcare practitioners in ...

Genetic factors implicated in survival gap for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer

... clinical trials going back as far as 1974 conducted by the Southwest oncology Group (SWOG). The investigators conducted an analysis that controlled for ... supported by separate data published last month in the Journal of Clinical oncology (JCO), which found that disparities in breast cancer survival based on ...

Genetic finding could lead to targeted therapy for neuroblastoma

... with neuroblastoma, whose samples were derived from the Children's oncology Group Neuroblastoma Tumor Bank, and 803 healthy patients in a control ... neuroblastoma," said London, the principal investigator for the Children's oncology Group Statistics and Data Center at UF. "We are searching for genetic ...

Protein linked to change in tissue that surround and support breast tumors

... fibrosis," says the study's lead author, Priscilla Furth, MD, Professor of oncology and Medicine. "This is significant, because disordered interactions ... says the study's other senior author, Anna Riegel, PhD, a professor of oncology and associate director for cancer research education at Lombardi. In ...

Health choices predict cancer survival, U-M study finds

... survival. Results of the study appear online in the Journal of Clinical oncology . The researchers surveyed 504 head and neck cancer patients about five ... survival. "Health behaviors are only sporadically addressed in busy oncology clinics where the major focus is on surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. ...

Taste, odor intervention improves cancer therapy, according to Virginia Tech, Wake Forest study

... Their review appears in the March/April 2009 Journal of Supportive oncology . One of the purposes of the study, said Andrea Dietrich, professor of ... of Biomedical Engineering and Glenn Lesser, a physician of hematology and oncology at Wake Forest. Their joint paper, "Taste and Odor Abnormalities in ...

New tumor markers determine therapy intensity

... have now been published online in the prestigious Journal of Clinical oncology . Medulloblastoma is the most frequent childhood brain tumor The ... Dr. Stefan Pfister, who works with his team in the department of pediatric oncology at the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine (Medical Director: ...

GUMC and Oak Ridge National Labs announce unique research partnership

... These include: A project with Stephen Byers, PhD, professor of oncology at GUMC, and Gary Van Berkel, PhD, ORNL, designed to develop ways to ... with Ram Datar, PhD, ORNL, and Minetta Liu, MD, in the department of oncology at GUMC is utilizing a membrane developed by ORNL to help further Dr. ...

TGen spin-off MedTrust Online enables cancer doctors to quickly obtain best-available information

... Richard Love, a former TGen Chief Operating Officer and former CEO of ILEX oncology Inc, praised the advent of MedTrust as a boost to the local economy. ... Also, MedTrust has formed a partnership with the South Texas oncology and Hematology, one of the Southwest's leading cancer care providers. STOH ...

Researchers find way to make tumor cells easier to destroy

... of Medicine in St. Louis report. The Washington University radiation oncology researchers found that tumors have a built-in mechanism that protects them ... says senior author Tej K. Pandita, Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology and of genetics and a researcher with the Siteman Cancer Center at ...

Distance learning course in radiation oncology for cancer treatment

... health-care picture over time. The course - in the speciality of radiation oncology - is being spearheaded in the Asia and Pacific region through partners ... organizations in the field. The course - entitled Applied Sciences of oncology Distance Learning Course - contains 71 training modules under eight ....

Nanomedicine research for prostate cancer supported by $5 million gift

... to solve complex problems," says Dr. Bander, director of urological oncology research and the Bernard and Josephine Chaus Professor of Urological oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and a urologist at NewYork-Presbyterian ...

Biotech Co. founded by UCLA Scientists to be acquired by Astellas, Pharma Inc.

... firms poised to tackle therapeutic, fully human monoclonal antibody oncology research and drug development. According to Astellas, the acquisition ... Belldegrun, founding chairman of Agensys, professor and chief of urologic oncology in the department of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at ...

Safeway Inc. and PCF to fund landmark prostate cancer research collaboration

... will convene a "think tank" of some 70 experts in different areas of oncology from across the nation to explore the question of why current therapies ... Theodore L. DeWeese, M.D., Professor and Department Chairman of Radiation oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of ...

Genome update defines landscape of breast and colon cancers

... that this is still true, says Kenneth W. Kinzler, Ph.D., professor of oncology at Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. With no more higher-frequency ... function, says Victor Velculescu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The scientists say that ...

A study by the MUHC and McGill University opens a new door to understanding cancer

... The paper is co-authored by Dr Morag Park, Director of the MUHC Molecular oncology Group, and Dr Kalle Gehring, Head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonnance ... how the molecules interact, explains Dr. Park, who is also a Professor of oncology and biochemistry at McGill University. In that study we have clarified the ...

Advances in lung cancer research announced at conference

... cancer research conference. Dr. Weiss, M.D., an Associate Investigator in TGen's Cancer and Cell Biology Division and Director of Thoracic oncology at TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare, made both announcements at the 13th World Conference on Lung Cancer in San Francisco. ...

The way you eat may affect your risk for breast cancer

... and/or treatment include defining the underlying causes and determining the relevance of these caloric restriction methods. Pollak is professor of oncology at McGill University and director of the Cancer Prevention Center at the Jewish General Hospital, both in Montreal. This study "contributes to ...

Antibody targeting of glioblastoma shows promise in preclinical tests, say Lombardi researchers

... these findings have given us hope that a new approach may be possible," says the study's lead investigator, Anton Wellstein, MD, PhD, a professor of oncology and pharmacology at Lombardi. He adds that ALK receptors and the protein that binds to it, the growth factor pleiotrophin (PTN), are both also ...

Nanoparticle-delivered 'suicide' genes slowed ovarian tumor growth

... research at the Greenebaum Cancer Center at the University of Maryland, said this report illustrates significant progress in targeted therapy. "In oncology we have been studying ways to kill tumors for a long time, but much of this has run up against the real estate principle of location, location, ...

Newly discovered gene fusion may lead to improved prostate cancer diagnosis

... and proteins they produce, are important because they serve as a cancer-specific marker," says Dr. Mark A. Rubin, the Homer T. Hirst Professor of oncology in Pathology, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and vice chair for experimental pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Currently, ...

$2 million grant aids study of lung cancer in people who never smoked

... lung cancer in lifetime nonsmokers. Dr. Adi Gazdar, professor of pathology in UT Southwestern's Nancy B. and Jake L. Hamon Center for Therapeutic oncology Research, is the principal investigator for the EDRN project, which will be conducted at five sites across the country. "We know that ...

GUMC discovery highlights new direction for drug discovery

... protein and represents a potentially novel medical therapy in the future," says the study's lead investigator, Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, a pediatric oncology physician and researcher at GUMC's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study could provide a model upon which to design treatment for other ...

Elsevier announces 2008 journal impact factor highlights

... ) increased to 13.165, placing it at the #1 position in the Infectious Diseases category. The Lancet oncology ( http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/issue/current ) rose to 13.283, an increase of over 1 full IF point from the 2007 IF. Finally, The ...

Common chemotherapy drug triggers fatal allergic reactions

... patients experienced life-threatening respiratory arrest. The report was presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical oncology held recently in Orlando, Fla. Cremophor-containing paclitaxel has been associated with hypersensitivity reactions, with responses ranging from ...

Lombardi scientist brings 'dream team' breast cancer research effort to GUMC

... is a very innovative approach to funding research," explains Jordan, a pharmacologist who will serve as vice chairman of Lombardi's department of oncology when he joins the cancer center in July. "We hear a lot about the need to accelerate cancer research but this is the first effort that could truly ...

Tumor growth and chemo response may be predicted by mathematical model

... at the molecular and cellular levels influencing shape and behavior in sometimes unpredictable ways. New research by a scientist in mathematical oncology at the UT Health Science Center at Houston suggests that mathematical modeling based on data from the molecular and cellular levels could shed light ...

Georgetown University's Howard J. Federoff, M.D., Ph.D. receives Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award

... a number of medical patents. Prior to coming to Georgetown University, Dr. Federoff was Senior Associate Dean for Basic Research, Professor of oncology and Genetics and Professor of Neurology, Medicine Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He was the founding ...

Women more vulnerable to tobacco carcinogens, new results show

... the cancer-causing effects of smoking tobacco, according to new results reported this week at the European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic oncology (EMCTO), Lugano, Switzerland. Swiss researchers studied 683 lung cancer patients who were referred to a cancer centre in St Gallen between 2000 ...

Early detection of lung cancer: New data presented at multidisciplinary meeting

... new techniques for early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer are being presented at the first European Multidisciplinary Conference on Thoracic oncology (EMCTO) in Lugano, Switzerland (1-3 May 2009). "Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and also in Europe. One of the reasons ...

Joining forces to improve lung cancer treatment

... Austria. Prof Pirker is co-chair of the scientific committee of a new medical conference, the European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic oncology (EMCTO), being held for the first time this year, 1-3 May, in Lugano, Switzerland. The conference aims to further clinical and scientific cooperation ...

New drug shows promise in treating drug-resistant prostate cancer

... Sawyers and his research group; Sawyers has since moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he serves as chair of the human oncology and pathogenesis program. The UCLA patents for both compounds were licensed by the pharmaceutical company Medivation Inc., which chose to test ...

Early administration of antiretroviral therapy can improve survival

... Dr. Jordi Casabona of the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS in Catalonia (CEEISCAT) - Catalan Institute of oncology (ICO), and by Dr. Josep Mara Mir of the Infectious Diseases Department of Hospital Clnic - IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona. Dr. Josep Mara Mir is ...

A London effort to develop point-of-care nanosensors for HIV diagnosis and monitoring

... letting them know. It will really empower HIV patients to keep a close eye on their health and their treatments." Robin Weiss, Professor of Viral oncology at UCL, whose pioneering work in identifying the receptor for HIV has deepened our understanding of HIV/AIDS, adds: "One of the principal advantages ...

Cancer Genomics Browser gives cancer researchers a powerful new tool

... we can truly improve treatment and outcomes," said Esserman, director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center and associate director of the Breast oncology Program at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF. Cancer genomics involves searching for all of the genes and mutations that ...

Getting down to cancer basics

... survival and cell proliferation, but can affect a variety of other cellular mechanisms," explains Professor Victor Velculescu, Associate Professor of oncology and Director of Cancer Genetics from the Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins and co-Director of Cancer Biology, at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. ...