 | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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