News tagged with tumor chemosensitivity
Gene assay to help to predict lung cancer treatment resistance
The genes that may contribute to drug resistance in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can be predicted. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer found good correlation between genes believed to be involv ...
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Lung cancer survival rates improved through use of individualized chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the best broad defense against cancer recurrence after surgical resection. However, it is difficult to predict which patients will benefit from which regimen of anticancer drugs, if at all. Building on existing ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Chemosensitivity of cancer cells depends on their protein dependency
Two different anti-apoptotic proteins support cancer cell survival via an identical mechanism, yet differ in their sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs, report Brunelle et al. The study will be published ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Scientists develop mouse models of leukemia that predict response to chemotherapy
Being able to accurately predict how a given cancer will respond to chemotherapy would spare patients with non-responsive tumors the burden of undergoing toxic and ultimately unhelpful treatment. Just as important, knowing ...
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Brain cancer study: Magnitude of post-vaccine immune response linked to clinical outcomes
Researchers conducting a clinical trial of a dendritic cell vaccine designed to fight malignant brain tumors called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have found a correlation between the "intensity" of a patient's immune response ...
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Herceptin effective in breast cancer cells with low HER-2 levels
Northwestern University researchers have discovered that the monoclonal antibody Herceptin (trastuzumab) used in combination with certain cancer chemotherapies effectively treats breast cancer tumors that produce low or undetectable ...
Aug 10, 2006 |
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