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Adding Radiation Therapy To Chemotherapy Improves Survival In Patients With High-risk Breast Cancer

For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy, the addition of radiation therapy leads to better survival outcomes with few long-term toxic effects, according to a 20-year follow-up of a randomized trial, which appears in the January 19 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The British Columbia randomized radiation the...

Columbia research lifts major hurdle to gene therapy for cancer

Researchers at Columbia University MedicalCenter have discovered a way to overcome one of the major hurdles ingene therapy for cancer: its tendency to kill normal cells in theprocess of eradicating cancer cells.In a new study published in the Jan. 25 issue of the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers demonstrated thatthe technique works by incorporating it i...

Combination therapy boosts effectiveness of telomere-directed cancer cell death

Sometimes apotential target for a drug seems very promising on paper; things areoften very different in reality. Its the case of telomerase inhibitorsto treat cancer; they are supposed to strip the "immortal" (able todivide indefinitely) aspect of cancer cells. Yet, something in the cellseems to block their function, preventing them to inhibit completelythe...

Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue

Researchers have created a way to transform the dead bone of a transplanted skeletal graft into living tissue in an experiment involving mice. The advance, which uses gene therapy to stimulate the body into treating the foreign splint as living bone, is a promising development for the thousands of cancer and trauma patients each year who suffer with fragile and failing bone grafts. The findings w...

Novel Therapy Tested in Mice Could Chase Away Cat Allergies

A molecule designed to block cat allergies successfully prevented allergic reactions in laboratory mice, as well as in human cells in a test tube, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers report in the April issue of Nature Medicine, available online now. In the future, the investigators say, these promising results could lead to a new therapy not only for human cat allergies, but...

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The Genesis of Gendicine: The Story Behind the First Gene Therapy

In this BioPharmInternational exclusiveinterview,SiBionosfounder relates thescience andmanufacture of hiscompanys innovativecancer therapy....

TomoTherapy reports 86% revenue jump, $131M net loss in Q1

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TomoTherapy opens technical training center

The company, which recently raised $213 million in an initial public offering of stock, said engineers, physicists, and radiation technicians are among the professionals who will receive on-sit...

TomoTherapy raises $223 million in IPO

TomoTherapy, a portfolio company of , offered common stock at $19 per share, and expects to receive $185 million in ne...

TomoTherapy revises IPO money target

, raising to $213 million the amount it could raise in its pending initial pubic offering of stock.<...

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Cancer Doctors Okays Controversial Prostate Therapy

A controversial treatment for prostate cancer in which radioactive seeds are implanted in the prostate to destroy the tumor received support Friday from doctors writing therapy guidelines for the prestigious 17-hospital National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. This type of therapy is known as brachytherapy, the procedure has been performed for years by researc...

Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the commonest cancer among women in the world. There has been some on going controversy on certain aspects of treatment modalities of this cancer. Besides surgery there are other options to treat the cancer including radiation, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy. Now at a three-day conference at the National Institutes of Health doctors have agreed to a consensus on the combinati...

Acupuncture May Help Chemotherapy Side Effects

Oriental medical practice of Acupuncture along with commonly used medications may help ease the distressing and disabling side effects of chemotherapy for breast cancer patients, if researchers at National Institute of Health (NIH) are to be believed. According to Dr. Joannieshen MD, MPH, research associate at NIH, electro-acupuncture was more effective in controlling vomiting than...

Antioxidants protect health tissue in people undergoing radiation therapy.

A recent finding by Indian scientists revealed that two antioxidants in black pepper and turmeric- piperine and curcumin were found to help protect the bacterial DNA from damage by irradiation in test organism. Spices with antioxidants property have radio protective effect and protecting organisms like Escherichia role and Bacillus megaterium organisms (taken for study) against of gamma...

Distraction therapy found very effective in postoperative patients

Controlling pain in patients following surgeries has been effectively taken care of by a new therapy called distraction therapy. Doctors at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in the US have distracted patients with images and sounds from nature and have successfully controlled pain in patients following a painful procedure called bronchoscopy, which involves inserting the tube into the nose...

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VNS Therapy System

Description:Since 1997, VNS Therapy has been approved for use as an adjunctive therapy in reducing the frequency of seizures in adults and adolescents over 12 years of age with partial onset seizures that are refractory to antiepileptic medications. This indication is based on outcomes from 5 controlled, clinical trials. Efficacy, measured as median seizure reduction, was observed in these clinical trials an...
Company:Cyberonics, Inc.

Activa Therapy System

Description:Activa Parkinson's Control Therapy uses electrical stimulation to safely and effectively treat some of the most disabling motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Activa Parkinson's Control Therapy is a safe and effective adjunctive treatment option for many Parkinson's patients. Activa Therapy controls rigidity, bradykinesia/akinesia and/or tremor while reducing the duration of dyskinesia related...
Company:Medtronic Inc.

VISULAS 690s Photodynamic Therapy Laser System

Description:The VISULAS 690s is the benchmark for photodynamic therapy. As the instrument of choice for the international phase III Visudyne clinical trials, Carl Zeiss has leveraged its 20 year legacy in laser manufacturing to create the photodynamic therapy laser trusted by the world's leading ophthalmologists....
Company:Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.

Cold Shoulder™ Therapy Wrap

Description:Bird and Cronin, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of Patient Footwear, Orthopedic Softgoods, and Specialty Patient Care Products. Our products are of the highest quality and available in the USA and Internationally through various distribution sources....
Company:Bird & Cronin Inc.

Brachytherapy C-arm Table

Description:The Brachytherapy C-arm table is a versatile, adjustable table featuring hand and foot controls, removable sections, an X-ray film tray and grid, accessory rails and standard rail mount knee crutches, IV poles, and rail-mount arm boards....
Company:medtec

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Gene Chips to Detect CYP Variations: A New Step Toward Customized Medical Therapy.

The FDA approval of BiDil for heart failure in African American patients has underscored the concept that two patients can respond differently to the same medication. This concept holds true for a wide variety of everyday medications, and in many cases is due to individual gen...

Breast Cancer and HER-2/neu: Diagnostic Tools for Targeted Therapy

Contributing Editor With over 200,000 new cases and 40,000 deaths per year, breast cancer undoubtedly qualifies as one of Americas most serious health problems. Recently, efforts to develop early detection methods and more effective therapy have made important progress. This is particularly...

Pixantrone Combination Therapy for First-line Treatment of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Results in Reduction in Severe Toxicities Including Heart Damage When Compared to Doxorubicin-based Therapy

Positive interim results prompt request for meeting with FDA SEATTLE, July 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CellTherapeutics, Inc. (CTI) announced today that interim results ofits phase II/III trial comparing CPOP-R, in which pixantrone issubstituted for doxorubicin in standard CHOP-R first-line treatmentof patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), resultedin essentially al...

Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Preclinical Trial Targeting System's Success in Mouse Model Reported in Cancer Cell

HOUSTON, July 9, 2007 - A molecularly engineeredtherapy selectively embeds a gene in pancreatic cancer that shrinksor eradicates tumors, inhibits metastasis, and prolongs survivalwith virtually no toxicity, researchers from The University ofTexas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the July 9 edition ofCancer Cell. "This vehicle, or vector, is so targeted and robust in itscanc...

YM BioSciences Announces Preclinical Data Confirming Nimotuzumab Binds to the EGF Receptor and Potentiates Radiotherapy

MISSISSAUGA, ON, July 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - YMBioSciences Inc. , an oncology company that identifies, developsand commercializes differentiated products for patients worldwide,today announced that a study presented by investigators from KinkiUniversity School of Medicine and Kyoto University at the 11thmeeting of The Japanese Association for Molecular Target Therapy ofCancer...

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