News tagged with egfr
Nano-technology uses virus' coats to fool cancer cells
While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment. New research ...
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Feb 17, 2012 |
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Turning off cancer's growth signals
One hallmark of cancer cells is uncontrollable growth, provoked by inappropriate signals that instruct the cells to keep dividing. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have now identified ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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BATTLE researchers identify new biomarkers for EGFR inhibition
Scientists are continuing their work on the Biomarker-integrated Approaches of Targeted Therapy for Lung Cancer Elimination trial — known more commonly as the BATTLE trial — and presented updated results at the ...
Apr 02, 2011 |
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New functional understanding outlines therapy for untreatable breast cancer
Cancer biologists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have been part of a collaborative effort that identified a novel rationale for the treatment of currently not curable triple-negative ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Using the structure of the epidermal growth factor receptor to fight cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- The protein EGFR, which is the target of several cancer drugs, has a split personality at the cell surface, with two different classes (high-affinity and low-affinity), whose origins have ...
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Scientists show how brain tumors outsmart drugs
Researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center have shown one way in which gliomas, a deadly type of brain tumor, ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Which is promising as therapeutic targets in patients with biliary tract cancer? EGFR or HER2?
A research team from Germany analyzed the pathogenetic role and potential clinical usefulness of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) in patients with advanced ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Vandetanib shows clinical benefit when combined with docetaxel for lung cancer
When combined with standard chemotherapy, an international Phase III trial has shown that the oral targeted therapy vandetanib improves progression-free survival for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according ...
Jun 01, 2009 |
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