http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A study that aimed to understand how the cancer drug everolimus helps overcome the resistance breast cancers can develop to trastuzumab has left researchers contemplating a puzzle. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-everolimus-trastuzumab-resistance-her-positive.html Cancer Thu, 02 May 2013 10:35:22 EST news286709710 Researchers in France are taking advantage of the progress in genetic and molecular profiling to analyse the make-up of individual cancer patients' tumours and, using this information, assign them to particular treatments and phase I clinical trials—an approach that could become part of everyday clinical practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-molecular-portraits-tumours-patients-trials.html Cancer Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:00:04 EST news271613695 An international group of researchers, including those from Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have published a paper in the March 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reviewing the results of a study that analyzed mutations in 18 genes of 398 patients who had acute myeloid leukemia (AML). They found that several mutated genes predicted improved outcomes when patients with certain gene mutations were given high-dose induction chemotherapy. Their findings suggest that mutational profiling could potentially be used for both risk stratification and also in helping health care providers make therapeutic decisions for some AML patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-acute-myeloid-leukemia-gene-mutations.html Cancer Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:24:52 EST news251720682