Oncology & Cancer
Killer cocktail fights brain cancer
A novel immune-boosting drug combination eradicates brain cancer in mice, according to a study in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Nov 25, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
50 percent of patients in Cedars-Sinai brain cancer study alive after five years
Eight of 16 patients participating in a study of an experimental immune system therapy directed against the most aggressive malignant brain tumors – glioblastoma multiforme – survived longer than five years after diagnosis, ...
Nov 24, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Imaging studies may predict tumor response to anti-angiogenic drugs
Advanced imaging techniques may be able to distinguish which patients' tumors will respond to treatment with anti-angiogenic drugs and which will not. In patients newly diagnosed with the dangerous brain tumor glioblastoma, ...
Nov 4, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Glioblastoma multiforme: Incurable brain cancer gene is silenced
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the brain cancer that killed Sen. Edward Kennedy and kills approximately 13,000 Americans a year, is aggressive and incurable. Now a Northwestern University research team is the first to demonstrate ...
Oct 30, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Doubling forces against glioblastomas: Two-drug combination slows malignant brain tumors in mice
(Medical Xpress)—A novel combination of two oral targeted drugs dramatically slowed the growth of glioblastoma brain tumors in mice and significantly extended the animals' survival, report scientists at Harvard Medical ...
Oct 25, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
New clue to aggressive brain tumors
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a biological marker that may help predict survival in people with deadly brain tumors. The researchers showed that when ...
Oct 21, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
The Cancer Genome Atlas exposes more secrets of lethal brain tumor
When The Cancer Genome Atlas launched its massively collaborative approach to organ-by-organ genomic analysis of cancers, the brain had both the benefit, and the challenge, of going first.
Oct 10, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Inflammatory protein converts glioblastoma cells into most aggressive version
A prominent protein activated by inflammation is the key instigator that converts glioblastoma multiforme cells to their most aggressive, untreatable form and promotes resistance to radiation therapy, an international team ...
Aug 29, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Brain cancer survival improved following FDA approval of bevacizumab, study finds
A new population-based study has found that patients with glioblastoma who died in 2010, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease ...
Aug 19, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Study reveals genes that drive brain cancer
A team of researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center has identified 18 new genes responsible for driving glioblastoma multiforme, the most common—and most aggressive—form ...
Aug 5, 2013
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