News tagged with hematology
Related topics: leukemia , clinical trials , chemotherapy , blood cells , stem cells
New device will advance cancer treatment
(Medical Xpress) -- The future of prostate cancer therapy may lie in a tiny, "sticky" silicon chip dubbed GEDI (Geometrically Enhanced Differential Immunocapture, pronounced like the "Star Wars" forces of ...
Cancer
Jun 28, 2012 |
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New drug dramatically improves survival in Hodgkin lymphoma patients
A new cancer drug with remarkably few side effects is dramatically improving survival in Hodgkin lymphoma patients who fail other treatments and are nearly out of options.
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Jun 27, 2012 |
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Type 2 diabetes linked to increased blood cancer risk
Patients with type 2 diabetes have a 20 percent increased risk of developing blood cancers, such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma, according to a new meta-analysis led by researchers at The Miriam Hospital. The ...
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Jun 05, 2012 |
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New immune therapy shows promise in kidney cancer
An antibody that helps a person's own immune system battle cancer cells shows increasing promise in reducing tumors in patients with advanced kidney cancer, according to researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Jun 04, 2012 |
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Drug combination highly effective for newly diagnosed myeloma patients
A three-drug treatment for the blood cancer multiple myeloma provided rapid, deep and potentially durable responses, researchers report today online in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, and yester ...
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Jun 04, 2012 |
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Cancer vaccine combination therapy shows survival benefit in breast cancer
A vaccine that targets cancer cells in combination with the drug letrozole, a standard hormonal therapy against breast cancer, significantly increased survival when tested in mice, a team of UC Davis investigators has found.
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May 15, 2012 |
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Researchers discover that JAM-A protein keeps blood clots in check
those disc-shaped cells circulating in your blood -- rush to the scene, clumping together to plug the leak.
Medical research
May 03, 2012 |
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Colitis in test mice responds to treatment with human umbilical cord-derived mensenchymal cells
When laboratory mice were modeled with colitis and treated with human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal cells, the cells homed in on the inflamed colon and effectively ameliorated colitis, reported a study published in a ...
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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Engineered stem cells seek out, kill HIV in living organisms
(Medical Xpress) -- Expanding on previous research providing proof-of-principal that human stem cells can be genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells, a team of UCLA researchers have now demonstrated ...
HIV & AIDS
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Hematologic malignancies rapidly increasing and unaddressed in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Medical Xpress) -- Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a growing cancer burden, and hematologic malignancies account for almost 10 percent of cancer deaths in the region. In the United States and other ...
Cancer
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Drug combination may provide option to patients with NSCLC ineligible for bevacizumab
A combination of nab-paclitaxel and carboplatin for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer may be a promising option for patients ineligible for treatment with bevacizumab, according to data presented at the AACR Annual ...
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Apr 03, 2012 |
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Noninvasive imaging can detect mutations within a brain tumor
Researchers at Winship Cancer Institute have developed a technique for detecting an "oncometabolite", a chemical produced by some brain tumors' warped metabolism, via non-invasive imaging.
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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New pathway found for regulation of blood vessel growth in cancer
Researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have identified a new function for a gene that normally prevents the development of cancer.
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Mar 01, 2012 |
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Study showed oxaliplatin improved colon cancer patient survival
Stage III colon cancer patients in the general population who receive adjuvant treatment for the disease have an improved rate of survival when oxaliplatin is added to 5-fluorouracil (5FU), according to a study published ...
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Jan 20, 2012 |
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Novel brain tumor vaccine acts like bloodhound to locate cancer cells
A national clinical trial testing the efficacy of a novel brain tumor vaccine has begun at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, the only facility in the Southeast to participate.
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