http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. High epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression was a good predictor of which lung cancer patients would survive longer when cetuximab (Erbitux) was added to first-line chemotherapy, according to research presented at the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Amsterdam, hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-high-egfr-predictor-survival-cetuximab.html Cancer Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:51:10 EST news229060256 Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered a key molecule needed to kill the blood vessels that supply tumours. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-strategy-tumor-feeding-blood-vessels.html Medical research Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:02:20 EST news226573325 A breakthrough in understanding a biological process that causes many common cancers including lung and breast cancer opens up a whole new realm of possibilities for the development of improved cancer drugs. The results are featured on the front cover of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology published today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-octopus-cancer-breakthrough.html Cancer Fri, 13 May 2011 06:25:38 EST news224486698