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Genetic Fingerprints Identify Brain Tumors' Origins

...Cancer Center. "Our findings suggest that brain tumors arising in different regions may be genetically di...ider when trying to understand how pediatric brain tumors form." Researchers use information about tumor origins to develop new tests and treatments for th...

New Antibody for EGFR Causes Lung Cancer Regression

... binds EGFR (mAb806) causes the regression of lung tumors in both models of lung cancer. By contrast, a s...r, only induced tumor regression in mice with lung tumors driven by expression of EGFR with a mutation in the intracellular part of the protein. Importantl...

Reactivated Genes Cause Tumors to Shrink (or) Disappear

...re-activating one of those genes in mice can cause tumors to shrink or disappear. The study offers evidenc... can find drugs that restore p53 function in human tumors in which this pathway is blocked, they may be effective cancer treatments," said David Kirsch of MIT...

Additional Research Imperative on Lung Cancer in Women

...tobacco smoke. Other insights have also shown that tumors in women portray mutations in the p53 gene, which ...e there is a need to understand the impact of lung tumors in women. 'An urgent need exists to increase awareness and research funding to improve lung cancer c...

New Guidelines For Assessing Lymphoma Treatment

... form of glucose, which is consumed more avidly by tumors than by normal tissue. In contrast to conventional computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), PET is able to distinguish between viable tumor and non-cancerous scar tissue that is often left behind after successful treatment of l...

Cancer Recurrence in Older Breast Cancer Patients Reduced By Radiation Therapy

... reduce the risk of both cancer recurrence and new tumors in older women with early breast cancer. "While...en on the body, is often used to treat women whose tumors are sensitive to estrogen. One-third of the study participants were 65-69 years old, half were 70-...

Surgery and Adjuvant Therapy Can Work for Pancreatic Cancer

... They excluded patients who had metastatic cancer, tumors that could not be removed or were not removed entirely (positive surgical margins), or indolent (slow growing) tumor types. Ultimately 454 patients were included in the final comparison of patients who received adjuvant therapy with those who had n...

Aspirin Saves Life Even in Cancer Patients

...ogy at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. "We believe tumors may be releasing chemicals that allow the cancer to form new blood supplies which makes blood more susceptible to forming clots." Durand, a heart failure specialist, says. "There appears to be a platelet paradox suggesting that cancer may affect the ...

Simple Test Detects Genetic Signs of Lung Cancer in a Patient’s Sputu

...d 76 percent of stage I lung cancer patients whose tumors also showed the same genetic loss. Existing sputum... FHIT were deleted in 84 percent and 79 percent of tumors and in 45 percent and 40 percent of matched sputum, respectively. Combining both HYAL2 and FHIT dele...

Substitute for Chemotherapy Tested by Canadian Scientists

...e laboratory. DCA is found to decrease the size of tumors in breast and brain. Dr Evangelos Michelakis, Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton revealed that DCA has no harmful effect on the normal cells and could be immediately tested on humans. JYT...

Stem Cell Marker Identified in Head and Neck Cancer

... did not express CD44 did not grow new tumors. The tumors that grew were found to be identical to the original tumors and to contain cells that expressed CD44 as well as cells that did not express the marker. This abil...

Selective Marker Found to Indicate Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

... it has a chance to come back.' Basal epithelial tumors lack important molecular targets such as the estro...enzo. In a retrospective study of breast cancer tumors lacking estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and Her2, DiRenzo and his colleagues found extrem...

Chew That Fat Away

...the stomach is full. Some people have pancreatic tumors and in this case more than required amounts of PP ...might be taken long-term. People with PP-secreting tumors who have lived with high levels of the hormone for more than a decade suffer no ill effects other th...

Dual Gene Therapy Suppresses Lung Cancer in Preclinical Test

...umber and size of human non-small cell lung cancer tumors in mice, researchers at The University of Texas M.... when administered together, cutting the number of tumors per mouse by 75 percent and the weight of tumors by 80 percent. 'In cancer treatment we have combi...

Selective Marker Found to Indicate Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

... it has a chance to come back.' Basal epithelial tumors lack important molecular targets such as the estro...enzo. In a retrospective study of breast cancer tumors lacking estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and Her2, DiRenzo and his colleagues found extrem...

A New Strategy to Control Breast Cancer

...k kinase activities.” “Women with those types of tumors would seem to be poorly served by existing treatments and may stand to benefit from therapies that are based on the inhibition of TACE activity,” said Kenny. “We would like to see some of the companies who have developed the new generation TACE inhib...

A New Technology for Safe Tumor Surgery

...called ‘sciatic notch dumbbell-shaped’ tumors. The tumors were benign, but resulted in neurologic dysfunctio... complete removal of sciatic notch dumbbell-shaped tumors has been problematic for at least three reasons. These tumors are: relatively rare and therefore h...

Humble Cold to Combat Cancer

...mor cells. Though successive trials on cancerous tumors of mice have been carried out, use of virotherapy ...to begin trials of the coated virus on human liver tumors this year. Being the preliminary stage, the study will be using uncoated adenovirus or disabled vir...

New Biotech Drugs to Aid in Renal Cell Carcinoma Treatment

...se drugs help in only 5 percent of cases where the tumors have spread. Hence the excitement over the new drugs. Researchers from US, France and Poland, contributed to the results of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The studies report how sunitinib when given to patients slowe...

Soy Compound May Fight Breast, Ovarian Cancers

...glyceollin, on mice with ovarian and breast cancer tumors that are stimulated by the hormone estrogen. Over time, the compound stopped further growth of the tumors by interfering with the tumor’s ability to respond to estrogen. According to Burow, the finding is s...

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