News tagged with receptor tyrosine kinases

Study reveals how lung cancers evolve in response to targeted treatment

A detailed analysis of lung tumors that became resistant to targeted therapy drugs has revealed two previously unreported resistance mechanisms. In a report in the March 23 Science Translational Medicine, investigators from t ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New device for identifying aggressive breast cancers

A new disposable device based on advances in microfluidics may help identify advanced breast cancer patients who are candidates for therapy with the drug trastuzumab (Herceptin). The device is described in the American Institute ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biomarkers predict brain tumor's response to therapy

A report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, highlights a new biomarker that may be useful in identifying patients with recurrent glioblastoma, or brain tumors, who would respon ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0