How tumour donations from patients help scientists understand cancer
"You don't exactly want your tumour to take home and stick on your mantelpiece - give it to the research people and let them make some use of it."
Apr 13, 2018
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"You don't exactly want your tumour to take home and stick on your mantelpiece - give it to the research people and let them make some use of it."
Apr 13, 2018
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Physicians who received payment from pharmaceutical companies for meals, talks and travel were more likely to prescribe those companies' drugs for two cancer types, a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive ...
Apr 9, 2018
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Patients with an advanced form of kidney cancer had similar quality of life outcomes taking a drug called cabozantinib as those who received the standard treatment, everolimus, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. ...
Feb 19, 2018
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The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (the Alliance), in conjunction with industry partner Exelixis, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved CABOMETYX (cabozantinib) tablets for the ...
Dec 20, 2017
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A new study is believed to be the first to describe the unique role of androgens in kidney cancer, and it suggests that a new approach to treatment, targeting the androgen receptor (AR), is worth further investigation.
Oct 13, 2017
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A new cooperative research study including Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Lionel Lewis, MB BCh, MD, finds that nivolumab plus ipilimumab therapy demonstrated manageable safety, notable antitumor activity, and durable responses ...
Jul 26, 2017
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Syndax Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing entinostat and SNDX-6352 in multiple cancer indications, in collaboration with The Wistar Institute and Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon ...
Jul 11, 2017
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Some patients with a form of advanced kidney cancer that carries a poor prognosis benefited from an experimental drug targeted to an abnormal genetic pathway causing cancerous growth, according to research led by a Dana-Farber ...
Jun 23, 2017
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PD-L2 protein expression in human tumors was associated with clinical response to pembrolizumab (Keytruda), an anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, independent of PD-L1 expression, in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma ...
Jun 15, 2017
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University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have developed preclinical laboratory models of the two most common types of kidney cancer, an advancement that may aid in the evaluation of novel ...
Jun 9, 2017
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