http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Adding the drug cetuximab to a regimen of drugs used for the treatment of patients following surgery for stage III colon cancer did not result in improved disease-free survival, according to a study in the April 4 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-adding-drug-chemotherapy-colon-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:02:50 EST news252687759 Doctors and researchers of Hospital del Mar and its research institute, the IMIM, have lead a study describing a new pharmacological resistance to cancer. This new mechanism is a mutation in an oncogene called EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) causing resistance to treatment using a drug called cetuximab, a monoclonal antibody which specifically attacks the EGFR. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-resistance-colon-cancer-treatment.html Cancer Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:04:32 EST news246459858