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Preliminary findings of a new study designed by researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center found that adding the chemotherapy drug cetuximab (brand name Erbitux) to radiation therapy and chemotherapy may help some patients with head and neck cancer to live longer.
According to Mohan Suntharalingam, M.D., lead author of the study and a radiation […]
Lovastatin (trade name: Mevacor) is a cholesterol lowering drug while cyclopamine is a cancer drug.
Cyclopamine works by blocking the so-called “hedgehog” pathway, long known to promote and guide cell and organ growth while lovastatin (aside from cholesterol-clogging effects) is known to curb destruction of proteins that put the brakes on cell growth, causing cancer cells […]
Gliomas are the scariest group of brain tumors, the most common type of which is the most aggressive.
Malignant gliomas are least affected by chemotherapy and radiation. Patients only survive a year after diagnosis.
Shedding light into this seeming hopeless, fatal condition, Lund University (Sweden) research suggests that stem cells from the brain can be developed to […]
Researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found a combination of gene therapy that drastically reduces the number and size of human non-small cell lung cancer tumors in mice.
The two tumor suppressing genes when separately given intravenously reduced cancer but were found more […]
For the first time, MDS Nordion’s innovative primary liver cancer treatment TheraSphere® have been used in India.
MDS Nordion is a leading global provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals (used to diagnose and treat diseases) and is one of 89 Ontario-based companies and organizations participating in a trade mission to India, organized by the Government of Ontario.
Three […]
Christina Jones of e-Beauty Daily is battling with a type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma (BCC).
According to the Skin Cancer Foundation:
Basal cell carcinoma can usually be diagnosed with a simple biopsy and is fairly easy to treat when detected early. However, 5 to 10 percent of BCCs can be resistant to treatment or […]
Widely used to treat recurrent brain tumors and to prevent the spread of breast cancer, lung cancer and malignant melanoma to the brain, whole-brain radiation leads to the development of progressive cognitive impairments (affecting memory, language and abstract reasoning) in half of the patients receiving the treatment.
Animal studies from Wake Forest University School of Medicine […]
Obesity (higher body mass index or BMI and weight gain) increases the risk of death from prostate cancer but no association was found between BMI or weight gain and the development of cancer.
The researchers found that higher BMI and weight gain since the age of 18 were associated with significantly higher risk of death from […]
According to new research from The University of Nottingham, the chemical compound called capsaicin (responsible for the burning sensation we get from eating chilies) could potentially lead to the next generation of anti-cancer drugs that will kill tumors with less or no side effects.
For the first time, a new study published online in the journal […]
The same institute near Edinburgh who gave us Dolly (the cloned sheep) – Roslin Institute – have bred a 500-strong flock of ISA Browns (a common breed of egg-laying hen), that are the world’s first breed of designer chickens that have been genetically modified to lay eggs capable of producing drugs that will fight cancer […]
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