News tagged with metastatic colorectal cancer
Novel personalized medicine trial launched for metastatic colorectal cancer
Imagine if treatments for disease could be based not on a patient's diagnosis but instead on the characteristics of their tissue. By identifying and decoding the cryptic messages hidden deep inside the human proteome, scientists ...
Jan 15, 2010 |
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Trial of new treatment for advanced melanoma shows rapid shrinking of tumors
Berlin, Germany: Researchers have made significant advances in the treatment of metastatic malignant melanoma - one of the most difficult cancers to treat successfully once it has started to spread - according to a study ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Genetic testing may be valuable in treating colorectal cancer
For the 29,000 patients in the United States with metastatic colorectal cancer, chemotherapy with irinotecan is a standard treatment that has been shown to improve survival. But for more than one in 10 of these patients, ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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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 ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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SLAC X-rays help discover new drug against melanoma
It was front page news around the world: a drug designed to disrupt malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, was so successful in its latest round of testing in humans that the tests were halted & ...
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Jul 19, 2011 |
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Bristol-Myers pitches its cancer medicine pipeline
(AP) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. executives said Monday they have more than a half-dozen drugs in testing against different cancers and could get important data on them and possibly a couple of approvals this year.
Jun 06, 2011 |
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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 ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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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 ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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HBV infection decreases risk of liver metastasis in colorectal cancer patients
A research team from China evaluated the effect of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection on liver metastasis of colorectal cancer. The study showed that HBV infection decreases the risk of liver metastasis in patients with colorectal ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Researchers make major breakthrough in melanoma research
In a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for patients with malignant melanoma, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that a particular protein suppresses the progression of melanoma through ...
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Study uses the patient's tumor to form vaccine
A new process for creating a personalized vaccine may become a crucial tool in helping patients with colorectal cancer develop an immune response against their own tumors. This dendritic cell (DC) vaccine, developed at Dartmouth ...
Nov 24, 2010 |
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FAK inhibitor effectively blocked colon cancer cell growth and viability
Researchers are one step closer to providing a new therapy for colon cancer, after findings revealed that a small molecule focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitor known as Y15 effectively blocked cell viability, promoted detachment ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Surprise finding: Pancreatic cancers progress to lethal stage slowly
Pancreatic tumors are one of the most lethal cancers, with fewer than five percent of patients surviving five years after diagnosis. But a new study that peers deeply into the genetics of pancreatic cancer presents a bit ...
Oct 27, 2010 |
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