News tagged with metastatic colonization

MicroRNA-mediated metastasis suppression

Metastases are responsible for over 90% of cancer deaths. In the upcoming issue of G&D, Dr. Robert Weinberg (MIT) and colleagues lend molecular insight into how microRNAs suppress tumor metastasis.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers describe a new genetic program that converts static cells into mobile invasive cells

Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have identified the gene GATA 6 as responsible for epithelial cells -which group together and are static- losing adhesion and moving ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US panel rejects Avastin for breast cancer use

An expert panel urged the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to strip the Roche-made drug Avastin of its label for use against breast cancer because it is neither safe nor effective.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA panel: Revoke drug's breast cancer approval

(AP) -- A panel of cancer experts has ruled for a second time that Avastin, the best-selling cancer drug in the world, should no longer be used in breast cancer patients, clearing the way for the government to remove its ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hearing may be end of road for breast cancer drug

(AP) -- The best-selling cancer drug in the world comes under federal scrutiny once again this week, as drugmaker Roche makes a last-ditch effort to keep Avastin approved for breast cancer, despite evidence ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Interventional Radiology Y-90 Liver Cancer-busting Treatment: Safe, Fast, Extends Life

Interventional radiologists have been the leaders in the use of intra-arterial yttrium-90 radioembolization, since its introduction in 2000, to treat liver cancer. Now, new results from a large multi-institutional study show ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

FDA clears first melanoma drug to extend life

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a breakthrough cancer medication from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. that researchers have heralded as the first drug to prolong the lives of patients with ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

With new method, researchers are able to infer how tumors evolve and spread

A new method of analyzing cancerous tumors developed by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) suggests that tumors may not evolve gradually, but rather in punctuated or staccato-like bursts. It is a finding ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New bowel cancer evidence supports calls for routine DNA damage repair test

Bowel cancer patients whose tumours contain defects in specific DNA repair systems are much less likely to experience tumour recurrence post surgery, published results from a major clinical study have demonstrated. Scientists ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Level of tumor protein indicates chances cancer will spread

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Hong Kong have discovered that high levels of a particular protein in cancer cells are a reliable indicator that a cancer will spread.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Nanoparticle blocks key molecule involved in spread of breast cancer

Ongoing clinical trials have shown that a peptide known as PHSCN can slow or prevent the spread of metastatic breast cancer in over a third of patients treated with the drug. This drug works by binding to an activated receptor ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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