News tagged with her2 protein
Combination overcomes breast cancer resistance to herceptin
Breast cancer tumors take numerous paths to resist the targeted drug Herceptin, but a single roadblock at a crucial crossroads may restore a tumor's vulnerability to treatment, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson ...
Mar 13, 2011 |
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Tracking therapeutic nanoparticles that target breast tumors
Researchers at Rice University, collaborating with investigators at the Baylor College of Medicine, have used two different types of imaging technologies to track the delivery of a therapeutic nanoparticle to breast tumors. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Antibody-guided drug shows encouraging activity in metastatic breast cancer
A new antibody-drug compound shrank or halted the growth of metastatic breast tumors in almost half of a group of patients whose HER2-positive cancer had become resistant to standard therapies, according to early data from ...
Dec 12, 2009 |
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Targeted therapy prolongs life in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer
Lapatinib plus trastuzumab are significantly better than lapatinib alone in extending the lives of breast cancer patients whose tumors are HER2-positive, according to Kimberly Blackwell, M.D., associate professor of medicine ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions
cylinders of carbon about a nanometer in diameter -- have been highly touted for potential applications such as ultrastrong fibers, electrical wires in molecular devices, or hydrogen storage components for ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Information about the use and accuracy of breast cancer tests is lacking, study finds
A new study finds that there is little information available about the use of new testing technologies and targeted therapies in breast cancer, specifically the anti-cancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin). Published in the November ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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New radiation-free targeted therapy detects and eliminates breast cancer tumors in mice
Combining a compound known as a gallium corrole with a protein carrier results in a targeted cancer therapy that is able to detect and eliminate tumors in mice with seemingly fewer side effects than other breast-cancer treatments, ...
Mar 30, 2009 |
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