http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. An interim analysis of a phase II clinical trial indicates that a novel experimental agent for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is highly active and well tolerated both in patients who are undergoing treatment for the first time and those who have relapsed and are resistant to other therapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-experimental-agent-highly-cll-patients.html Cancer Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:42:26 EST news226572134 (PhysOrg.com) -- Localized hyperthermia has been used occasionally with cancer drugs for some time, but until now, the reason it helps has been a mystery. In a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have discovered that the addition of heat inhibits homologous recombination so the cancer cells are unable to repair DNA damage caused by the cancer treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-cancer-drugs.html Cancer Tue, 10 May 2011 15:00:01 EST news224255592