News tagged with melanoma tumor
Viral replicase points to potential cancer therapy
Alpha viruses, such as Sindbis virus, carry their genetic information on a single strand of RNA. On infection they use a protein, replicase, to produce double stranded RNA (dsRNA) which is used as genetic material to make ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Researchers discover possible biomarker and therapeutic target for melanoma
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, have identified a potential new biomarker and therapeutic target for melanoma. The novel cell screening method used ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Scientists create new cell lines from ocular melanoma patients
Researchers at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute have created new tumor cell lines from fine-needle biopsies of ocular melanoma patients who had undergone treatment but died when their cancer spread aggressively.
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Photodynamic therapy against cancer
In a new study, published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, investigated whether eradicating tumor-associated lymphatic vessels and the tumor cells they c ...
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Japanese hospital to test new cancer therapy
Medical researchers in Japan say they will start the world's first clinical studies of a radiation therapy using accelerator-based neutron beams to kill cancer cells.
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Killing drug-resistant melanoma requires combination therapy
This past summer saw a revolution in melanoma therapy. Patients whose melanoma lesions contain a mutation in the BRAF gene were successfully treated with a BRAF-specific inhibitor, PLX4032. Reports of the ...
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Protein targeted to stop melanoma tumor growth
Halting the growth of melanoma tumors by targeting the MIC-1 protein that promotes blood vessel development in tumors may lead to better treatment of this invasive and deadly cancer, according to Penn State College of Medicine ...
Dec 09, 2010 |
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More evidence that melanoma does not conform to the cancer stem cell model
ANN ARBOR, Mich---University of Michigan researchers have determined that most types of melanoma cells can form malignant tumors, providing new evidence that the deadliest form of skin cancer does not conform to the increasingly ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Gene identified for spread of deadly melanoma
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a gene linked to the spread of eye melanoma.
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Study shows patient-specific vaccines for metastatic melanoma may induce durable complete regression
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian recently announced encouraging clinical study results for patient-specific vaccine therapy to treat metastatic melanoma. The study is ongoing, but the report concludes that patient-specific ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Melanoma uses body's immune system to spread to lungs
(PhysOrg.com) -- The way melanoma cells use the immune system to spread and develop into lung tumors may lead to a therapy to decrease development of these tumors, according to Penn State researchers.
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Nanoparticle-decorated cells power novel approach to cancer therapy
Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only when patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cells multiply ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Targeted drug leads to regression of metastatic melanoma with mutated BRAF gene
Use of an experimental targeted drug to treat metastatic melanoma tumors with a specific genetic signature was successful in more than 80 percent of patients in a phase 1 clinical trial. Results of the trial of PLX4032, ...
Aug 25, 2010 |
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The evolution of melanoma diagnosis: 25 years beyond the ABCDs
Twenty-five years after publishing the mnemonic "ABCD" to facilitate the early diagnosis of melanoma, the group who came up with that moniker says early detection remains a key factor in lowering mortality from malignant ...
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Team finds new target for treatment of advanced prostate cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- In its early stages, prostate cancer requires androgens (hormones that promote the development and maintenance of male sex characteristics) for growth, and current first-line therapies target ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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