News tagged with chemotherapy
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Med errors common among pediatric cancer outpatients
(HealthDay)—Among pediatric cancer patients who receive medications at home, errors are common, with a rate of 3.6 errors with injury per 100 patients, according to a study published online April 29 in ...
Pediatrics
Apr 29, 2013 |
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Microwave imaging can see how well treatment is progressing
Microwave imaging can be used to monitor how well treatment for breast cancer is working, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research. Microwave tomography was ab ...
Cancer
Apr 23, 2013 |
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Latest research shows two items are key to decrease symptoms and prolong survival for LMC patients
Lung cancer is one of the most common primary cancers that cause leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC), when cancer spreads to the membranes surrounding the spinal cord and brain. Cases of LMC have increased because of the ...
Cancer
Apr 22, 2013 |
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Mathematical models out-perform doctors in predicting cancer patients' responses to treatment
Mathematical prediction models are better than doctors at predicting the outcomes and responses of lung cancer patients to treatment, according to new research presented today (Saturday) at the 2nd Forum of the European Society ...
Cancer
Apr 20, 2013 |
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Researchers abuzz over caffeine as cancer-cell killer
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the University of Alberta are abuzz after using fruit flies to find new ways of taking advantage of caffeine's lethal effects on cancer cells—results that could one day ...
Cancer
Apr 18, 2013 |
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Gene signature can predict who will survive chemotherapy
An eight gene 'signature' can predict length of relapse-free survival after chemotherapy, finds new research in Biomed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine.
Cancer
Apr 15, 2013 |
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Key bone marrow protein identified as potential new leukemia treatment target
A new study on how the progression of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is influenced by the bone marrow environment has demonstrated for the first time that targeting a specialized protein known as osteopontin (OPN) may be ...
Cancer
Apr 15, 2013 |
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Gauging brain cancer survival time may get easier, study says
(HealthDay)—Life expectancy of people with aggressive brain cancer may be easier to determine with a new method under development at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, researchers say.
Cancer
Apr 10, 2013 |
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Cancers don't sleep: The Myc oncogene can disrupt circadian rhythm
The Myc oncogene can disrupt the 24-hour internal rhythm in cancer cells. Postdoctoral fellow Brian Altman, PhD, and graduate student Annie Hsieh, MD, both from the in the lab of Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD, director of the Abramson ...
Cancer
Apr 09, 2013 |
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Two-drug combo more effective in treating sarcomas, study shows
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida have found that when given together, a two-drug combination acts synergistically in test animals modeled with sarcoma tumors. They report ...
Cancer
Apr 09, 2013 |
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Researchers identify gene variations that predict chemotherapy side effects
Seemingly benign differences in genetic code from one person to the next could influence who develops side effects to chemotherapy, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The study identified gene variations that can predispose people ...
Cancer
Apr 09, 2013 |
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New treatment holds promise for resistant lung cancer
A new chemotherapy regimen appears to produce minimal side effects in patients with lung cancer that has not responded to previous therapy, paving the way for additional research to determine if the new regimen also helps ...
Cancer
Apr 09, 2013 |
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Adding cetuximab to chemotherapy enables patients with advanced colorectal cancer, liver metastasis to undergo surgery
New results from a clinical trial conducted in Shanghai, China, indicate that adding cetuximab (Erbitux) to standard chemotherapy enables some patients with otherwise inoperable liver metastases due to colorectal cancer have ...
Cancer
Apr 08, 2013 |
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Certain breast cancer patients may benefit from combined HER2 targeted therapy without chemotherapy
Is the era of targeted therapy for breast cancer at hand? It could be, said experts at the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine – at least for a certain population of women.
Cancer
Apr 08, 2013 |
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Possible predictive biomarker for patients who may respond to autophagy inhibitors
Autophagy, the process by which cells that are starved for food resort to chewing up their own damaged proteins and membranes and recycling them into fuel, has emerged as a key pathway that cancer cells use to survive in ...
Cancer
Apr 08, 2013 |
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