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 | Cancer Vaccines A Primer About an Emerging Therapy
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| | A vaccine involves the administration of an agent to an individual which will stimulate the immune system to react against the “foreign” components of the vaccine. The vaccine can be administere... [more]
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| Treatment Options Tool Now Available on CancerNews
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| | Using a patient's clinical profile, including diagnosis and test results, this new tool matches individual patients to peer-reviewed clinical research studies and generates relevant treatment options,... [more]
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| Stem Cell Transplantation
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| | Most people are familiar with the term “bone marrow transplantation” and have at least a rudimentary concept of what it means. The idea of “stem cell transplantation” is more foreign and difficult to... [more]
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| New Cancer Treatments: Investigation Drugs. What you need to know.
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| | An investigational drug is one that is under study but does not have permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be legally marketed and sold in the United States.
By far, the most... [more]
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| Cancer Clinical Trials: Questions and Answers
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| | Clinical trials are research studies that test how well new medical approaches work in people. Each study answers scientific questions and tries to find better ways to prevent, screen for, diagnose, o... [more]
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| Duke Scientists Destroy Cancer Cells Using Innovative Combination of Heat Therapy and "Fat Bubbles"
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| | The researchers have engineered microscopic fat bubbles into "smart bombs" by packing them with anticancer drugs and dispatching them on a mission to seek and destroy cancerous tumors.... [more]
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| Image-guided Tumor Ablation: A Technical Overview of a Less Invasive Cancer Treatment
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| | Cancer is the second leading cause of death in America. Surgical resection is a potentially curative option, but not all patients are eligible due to advanced age or infirmity. Minimally invasive ther... [more]
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| The Role of Image-guided Tumor Ablation in the Management of Liver Cancer
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| | Liver cancer, namely hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is one of the most common cancers in the world and is the third most common cause of cancer-related death [1]. If left untreated, liver cancer has ... [more]
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| Image-guided ablation for Renal Cell Carcinoma
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| | Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a very common clinical problem with over 36,000 new cases and more than 11,000 deaths in the United States in 2003 [1]. This represents a doubling in the number of RCCs ... [more]
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| Vaccine Improves Event-Free Survival for Leukemia Patients
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| | Patients whose immune system responded to a peptide vaccine for leukemia enjoyed a median remission that was more than three times longer than non-responders, a team led by researchers at... [more]
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| Researchers Develop Method to Rapidly Identify Optimal Drug Cocktails
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| | UCLA researchers have developed a feedback control scheme that can search for the most effective drug combinations to treat a variety of conditions, including cancers and infections. The discovery cou... [more]
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| New Potential Target Identified in Chemo-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
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| | The study, which examined 93 ovarian cancer samples of ranging stages, found that high levels of TG2 corresponded with significantly lower patient survival than those with low levels of TG2. Sixty-nin... [more]
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| Targeted Drug Blocks the Growth of Breast Cancer Cells that Spread to the Brain in Mouse Model
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| | Using laboratory and mouse models of human breast cancer, researchers have found that a small molecule capable of targeting specific proteins on the surface of breast cancer cells can inhibit the grow... [more]
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| New Research Offers Information on How HIV Infects Cells and Provides Clues to Vaccine Design
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| | The use of advanced imaging techniques has allowed researchers to visualize how a key part of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) changes shape after binding to immune system cells or to infection-... [more]
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| Colorectal Cancer Research: Cannabinoids may offer a new path for cancer prevention and treatment
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| | Since chronic inflammation is a known risk factor for colorectal cancer, the researchers decided to look into the role of cannabinoid receptors in a mouse model of colon cancer.... [more]
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| Researchers Investigate Use of Ultrasound to Alleviate Severe Pain Caused by Cancer's Spread to Bone
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| | PHILADELPHIA (July 29, 2007) - Cancer that has spread to the bone is one of the most frequent causes of severe pain in people with the disease. While medications, radiation therapy and surgery are som... [more]
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| Targeted Cancer Therapies : Answers to Your Questions
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| | Targeted cancer therapies use drugs that block the growth and spread of cancer. They interfere with specific molecules involved in carcinogenesis (the process by which normal cells become cancer cells... [more]
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| M. D. Anderson Examines Use of Toad Venom in Cancer Treatment
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| | Huachansu, a Chinese medicine that comes from the dried venom secreted by the skin glands of toads, has tolerable toxicity levels, even at doses eight times those normally administered, and may slow ... [more]
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| New technique for stem-cell transplants may offer powerful protection against graft-vs-host disease
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| | A new technique being tested in stem-cell transplants from imperfectly matched donors has revealed a striking, unforeseen response that can suppress graft-versus-host disease, a common and dangerous ... [more]
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| Study finds promise in combined transplant/vaccine therapy for high-risk leukemia
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| | Two of the most powerful approaches to cancer treatment — a stem cell transplant and an immune system-stimulating vaccine — appear to reinforce each other in patients with an aggressive, hard-to-contr... [more]
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| Gene Therapy Method Slows Tumor Growth in Mice
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| | NCI researchers have developed a novel method in mice of delivering genes to cancer cells, that when expressed, promote cell death. These genes, known as suicide genes, cause a cell to kill itself thr... [more]
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| New Cancer Treatments: Access to Investigational Drugs
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| | By far, the most common way that patients get investigational drugs is by taking part in a clinical trial sponsored under an IND. A patient’s doctor may suggest a clinical trial as one treatment optio... [more]
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| Cancer Vaccines
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| | Cancer vaccines are medicines that belong to a class of substances known as biological response modifiers. Biological response modifiers work by stimulating or restoring the immune system’s ability to... [more]
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| LEUKEMIA DRUG SHOWS PROMISING ACTIVITY IN OVARIAN CANCER CELLS
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| | The drug, when paired with a chemotherapy regimen, was even more effective in fighting ovarian cancer in cell lines in which signaling of the Src family kinases, associated with the deadly disease, is... [more]
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| STUDY DETAILS FIRST SUCCESSFUL USE OF EXPANDED UMBILICAL-CORD BLOOD UNITS TO TREAT LEUKEMIA
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| | SEATTLE – Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have cleared a major technical hurdle to making umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used method for treating leukemia and ... [more]
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| MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY COMBINATION PROVES EFFECTIVE IN FIGHTING A SUBSET OF GASTRIC CANCERS
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| | The drugs Herceptin and Tykerb when given together proved to significantly inhibit tumor growth in gastric cancers that had amplified levels of HER2, a mutation that results in an aggressive form of ... [more]
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