News tagged with chemotherapy
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Duke research team identifies a potent growth factor for blood stem cells
Duke Medicine researchers studying the interaction of blood stem cells and the niche where they reside have identified a protein that may be a long-sought growth factor for blood stem cells.
Medical research
Oct 23, 2012 |
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Trial offers new hope to children and adults with muscle cancer
A Cancer Research UK funded trial will offer new treatments for children and adults with a form of muscle cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma that has returned or does not respond to current treatments. ...
Cancer
Oct 22, 2012 |
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Researchers discover way to save blood from ravages of chemo treatment
(Medical Xpress)—Chemotherapy kills blood cells as well as cancer cells, often with fatal results. Now Yale stem cell researchers have identified a method they hope one day will help cancer patients undergoing ...
Medical research
Oct 19, 2012 |
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Researchers study 'ACT TIL' approach to treating metastatic melanoma
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have carried out a clinical trial in which patients with metastatic melanoma were given chemotherapy and an immunotherapy of adoptive cell transfer (ACT) with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes ...
Immunology
Oct 17, 2012 |
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Researcher pieces together AML prognosis puzzle
When patients suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) express high levels of the gene, MN1, an already aggressive leukemia is accelerated and shortens survival time. While that's a known fact, the mechanisms involved ...
Cancer
Oct 15, 2012 |
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Researchers' discovery revives hope in promising lymphoma treatment
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered the mechanism by which an experimental drug known as GCS-100 removes from lymphoma cells a protein that prevents the cells from ...
Cancer
Oct 15, 2012 |
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New tool determines leukemia cells' 'readiness to die,' may guide clinical care
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a novel method for determining how ready acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells are to die, a discovery that may help cancer specialists to choose treatments option more ...
Cancer
Oct 11, 2012 |
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UC Irvine opens clinical trial of novel treatment for brain cancer
UC Irvine doctors are enrolling patients with the deadly brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme in a clinical trial of a vaccine that may prevent the cancer's return or spread after surgery.
Cancer
Oct 10, 2012 |
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Unsuspected PE seldom linked to death in cancer patients
(HealthDay)—Unsuspected pulmonary embolism (UPE) is not associated with an increased risk of death in cancer patients when compared to patients without pulmonary embolism (PE), according to research published ...
Cancer
Oct 09, 2012 |
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Researchers study effect of chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy for advanced cancers
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital in China have discovered that combining chemotherapy drugs and immunotherapy ...
Cancer
Oct 09, 2012 |
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Using CD47's protection to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly to tumor cells
(Medical Xpress)—For most of their natural lives, red blood cells hide safely under the radar of the body's immune system, thanks to a cloak of "don't eat me" protein called CD47. Ching-An Peng of Michigan ...
Cancer
Oct 09, 2012 |
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'Treatment alliance' needed to save more children's lives from cancer
Experts are calling for an urgent change to approaches for treating and researching childhood cancers, to continue to save more children from the disease.
Cancer
Oct 08, 2012 |
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Survivor of aggressive breast cancer stresses need for quick action
(HealthDay)—Margaret Zuccotti was nursing her third child in August of 2006 when she noticed that her breast was red, swollen and tender to the touch. Because she'd had other children, she chalked up her ...
Cancer
Oct 05, 2012 |
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CU Cancer Center opens phase I clinical trial of anti-cancer stem cell agent OMP-54F28
The University of Colorado Cancer Center, together with other participating academic medical centers, recently opened a phase I human clinical trial of the drug OMP-54F28 in patients with advanced solid tumor cancers. OMP-54F28, ...
Cancer
Oct 03, 2012 |
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Biological markers increase clinical trial success rate of new breast cancer drugs
Using biological markers—genetic characteristics that are associated with some patients with breast cancer—can increase the success rate of clinical trials for breast cancer drugs by almost 50 per cent, says new research ...
Cancer
Oct 01, 2012 |
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