News tagged with cox 2 inhibitors

Fluorescent compounds make tumors glow

A series of novel imaging agents could light up tumors as they begin to form - before they turn deadly - and signal their transition to aggressive cancers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is short-term Celecoxib intervention a effective method for preventing gastric carcinogenesis?

Helicobacter pylori has been accepted as an important pathogen inducing gastric cancer. A research group from Taiwan investigated optimal intervention point of Celecoxib, to inhibit H. pylori-associated gastric carcinogenesis ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sensitizing tumor response to cancer therapy

Two forms of skin and brain cancer respond very poorly to chemotherapy and radiation: melanoma and glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers develop new drug to target tumor cells and blood vessels

Researchers at the University of Southern California have identified a new drug compound that appears to target tumor cells and surrounding blood vessels without the negative side effects typically associated with Cox-2 inhibitors.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0