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MIT and LIMR Announce Nanotech Ovarian Cancer Therapy
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 8, 2009
...ed form of the diphtheria toxin that is only harmful to ovarian cancer cells."
"Unlike chemotherapy, which can destroy both cancer and healthy cells and lead to many adverse effects, this ...
Blood Test for Aging Protein p16p16INK4a
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 17, 2009
...r transplantation, how well patients are likely to recover after surgery or the future toxicity of chemotherapy for cancer patients," he added.
The study has been published online ahead of prin...
Chemotherapy Drug Triggers Fatal Allergic Reactions
in Allergies, on June 9, 2009
...hs among cancer patients who received Cremophor-based paclitaxel , a solvent-administered taxane chemotherapy.
Adverse event reports generally only represent from 1 to 10 percent of actual inciden...
Eight Genes That Help Predict Patients Response to Melanoma Treatment
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 31, 2009
...agues examined the tumor tissues of 21 patients with metastatic melanoma, some of whom responded to chemotherapy and some who did not. Once the cases were divided, the researchers used a mathematical ...
Latisse: First Eyelash Thickener, FDA-Approved
in Well Woman Blog, on December 30, 2008
...n the eyelid. It may also be useful for those who've suffered permanent eyelash loss because of chemotherapy or other medical treatments.
Yes there is a condition (hyprotrichosis) wherein no hai...
Nanotubes and the Fight Against Cancer
in Nanotechbuzz, on December 19, 2008
...researchers at MIT explore the potential for nanotubes to "detect the quantity and status of chemotherapy drugs, toxins, and free radicals," according to DailyTech's Jason Mick .
&q...
Osteoporosis Drug Zometa Shrinks Breast Cancer Tumors
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 12, 2008
...drug Zometa (a product of Novartis AG) has been found to shrink breast cancer tumors better than chemotherapy alone .
Zometa is currently used to help prevent the bone loss associated with some ...
How Broccoli Compound Fights Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 6, 2008
...astase, which at high levels in breast cancer cells heralds a poor prognosis: decreased response to chemotherapy, reduced response to endocrine treatment and reduced survival rates.
Elastase is an en...
Nanotubes Punching Holes in Cancer
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 28, 2008
...ity are using carbon nanotubes to punch holes in tumor cells. Talk about targeted drug delivery! If chemotherapy can be delivered directly into cancer cells, then other healthy cells may be protected....
Nanomedicine Reviving a Cancer Drug
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 7, 2008
Many effective drugs never enter the market because of Toxicity and safety issues. An old cancer drug called TNP-470 was being researched in 1990, but clinical studies were stopped when neurologic toxicity was found in patients treated with this agent. Researchers at Children's Hospi...
Stopping the Spread of Cancer by Using Nanoparticle-Mediated Drug Delivery
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 22, 2008
...top the spread of cancer. Using an integrin -targeted nanoparticle, researchers delivered the chemotherapy doxorubicin to target the blood vessels of the tumor. By using this type of novel targe...
Ceftobiprole Effective Against MRSA and VRSA
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 4, 2008
...).
The research, to be published in the August 2008 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and available online now, looked at how well Ceftobiprole worked against bacterial clon...
Retransplantation of Cryopreserved Ovarian Tissue Following Cancer Therapy
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 13, 2008
...zteblatt International (pdf file).
Anal carcinoma was diagnosed in this young patient in 2004 and chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy was recommended. As the ovaries lie near to the tumor, they ar...
Anti-Cancer and Anti-Migraine Drug Candidates Purified from Plants
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 23, 2008
...lar differentiation process and inhibits neoplasm metastases, so it can be used in lung neoplasm chemotherapy as well as in colon, stomach or brain chemotherapy, etc.
Source
Photo: Dittrichia vi...
Good Cause at Full Tilt
in Internet Poker, on April 2, 2008
...tumors, especially 2 children from the same family.
Braeden has successfully completed 60 weeks of chemotherapy treatments and one day his tibia will likely be replaced with a steel rod. Bronson bega...
Taxol+Avastin Greatly Slowed Progression of Breast Cancer
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 30, 2007
...me seed without an oxygen supply. And patients can stay on Avastin as long at it works. It is not a chemotherapy drug so it has minimal toxicity. "
A human monoclonal antibody that acts to redu...
Light Powered Platinum is 80X Powerful Than Similar Cancer Treatments
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 23, 2007
... that, in a few years time, the new platinum compound could be used in a new type of photoactivated chemotherapy for cancer.
Find more details from University of Warwick .
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Lapatinib (Tykerb) -Capecitabine (Xeloda) Combo Shrinks Breast Cancer Metastases in the Brain
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 18, 2007
...A combination of lapatinib - a targeted therapy - and capecitabine - a chemotherapy agent - has been found to shrink metastatic brain tumors by at least 50 percent in one-fifth of patients with aggr...
New Study Could Help Curve Breast Cancer Relapses
in Well Woman Blog, on December 14, 2007
...study released today reported that women who are fighting breast cancer can be spared the agony of chemotherapy. The study discovered that women who were give a less harmless version of the drug, Adr...
Risk of Severe Metastatic Breast Cancer-related Pain, Higher in Non-Caucasians
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 29, 2007
...s influenced by changes over the course of disease due to factors including radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy. The current study was among the first to examine whether race plays a role in patients...
Cannabis Compound Can Potentially Fight Metastatic Breast Cancer
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 25, 2007
... have a limited range of options in treating aggressive forms of cancer.
Those treatments, such as chemotherapy, can be effective but they can also be extremely toxic and difficult for patients.
Th...
REVLIMID® (lenalidomide)-Dexamethasone Combo, Effective in Multiple Myeloma
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 23, 2007
...f Celgene , REVLIMID® (lenalidomide) is an oral medication which treats without the ravages of chemotherapy. It is a first in a new class of medications called immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs) that...
Flavopiridol and Cisplatin Combination May Be Effective Against Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 25, 2007
...3 percent overall response rate (6 of 18 patients) is about twice as high as seen using traditional chemotherapy regimens.
The researchers also offered the combination therapy to five patients with p...
Biodegradable Nanoparticles For Delivery of Cancer Drugs
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 25, 2007
A Dutch researcher has developed biodegradable nanoparticles which may be used to encapsulate and deliver fat-soluble anticancer drugs.
The nanoparticles consist of polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains which are attached to recently developed components: lactic acid derivatives of polymethacr...
New Bristol-Meyers Squibb's New Anti-Cancer Treatment: Ixempra, FDA-Approved
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 22, 2007
...ombination with another cancer drug (capecitabine) in patients who no longer benefit from two other chemotherapy treatments: including an anthracycline (such as doxorubicin or epirubicin) and a taxane...
Kimmie Cares
in The Parenting Weblog, on October 18, 2007
...by Kim Goebel, who passed away in 2004 due to cancer. She created these dolls as she was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Her aim was to help kids understand the appearance change when a per...
Genetic Profiling Lung Tumors To Determine Best Chemotherapy Options
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 1, 2007
Researchers are exploring the use of genetic profiling in lung tumors to to predict the tumors' likely response to therapy and determine the best treatment strategy for lung cancers.
Researchers looked at the sensitivity of multiple cancerous cell lines to cisplatin, the most commonly used ...
Pertuzumab Boosts Survival in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer Patients
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 28, 2007
...st, and ovarian cancers .
In the study, pertuzumab was administered in combination with a standard chemotherapy agent sometime after the initial treatments had been given, and after the re-emergence ...
BIO Investor Forum 2007
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 7, 2007
...ry - Anxiety, Depression, Psychoses: New Solutions to Complex Disorders
The Odd Couple - Marrying Chemotherapy with Targeted Therapies
Turning the Heat Up on Cancer - New Technologies to Enhance A...
No Side Effects to Chemo?
in Philoneist, on August 11, 2007
... have to suffer from hair loss and nausea amongst a host of other horrific side effects from chemotherapy.
Now scientists in Australia are working on nanotechnology that will use inert bacteri...
Tweezed too much? - no tears no more
in Are you a beauty?, on July 16, 2007
...u if your brows have gone bald from years of tweezing and waxing, and even if you had to go through chemotherapy, says the product website.
Although I haven't tried the Brow Boost yet, it does s...
Male Hormones Inhibitor May Cure Hard-to-Treat Prostate Cancer
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 9, 2007
... whom hormone therapy had stopped working and also in patients who had previously been treated with chemotherapy.'
Male hormones (i.e. testosterone) can stimulate the growth of prostate cancer c...
First Born Baby from Lab-matured (Woman's) Eggs
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 6, 2007
...g girls or women with cancer who are likely to become sterile or undergo early menopause because of chemotherapy.
Find more details from the full report ....
GSK's Atriance® (nelarabine) Received Positive Opinion in EU
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 29, 2007
...atients whose disease has not responded to, or has relapsed following, treatment with at least two chemotherapy regimens.
Atriance® is now being considered for final marketing approval by the Europ...
Follicular Lymphoma Drug Bexxar® Has Long Term Effectivity as First-Line Treatment
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 8, 2007
...ntline treatment.
These results compare quite favorably with those achieved with state-of-the-art chemotherapy regimens that take months to deliver. But Bexxar is given as a single treatment, complet...
Shark Cartilage Compound is No Lung Cancer Therapy
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 6, 2007
...AE-941 or Neovastat - has been found to have no benefit as therapeutic agent in combination with chemotherapy and radiation for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) .
Such we...
American Ginseng: Potential Therapy for Cancer-related Fatigue
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 5, 2007
... a range of psychological and physical fatigue brought about by cancer diagnosis and treatment (i.e chemotherapy and radiotherapy).
Thus, these researchers are looking at American ginseng as a poten...
Lumicure's Portable Photodynamic Therapy Against Skin Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 22, 2007
...kin cancer . If approved by the FDA, it's a convenient, painless and inexpensive alternative to chemotherapy and standard photodynamic therapy .
Lumicure's treatment is a new twist on an exi...
Diabetes Drug Avandia® (rosiglitazone maleate) Boosts Potency of Platinum Chemotherapy
in Daily Diabetic, on May 9, 2007
...ell lines and mice with tumor, rosiglitazone has been found to boost the potency of platinum-based chemotherapy agents when administered together.
As reported in an article in the May issue of Can...
Mushrooms to Prevent Breast Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on May 3, 2007
... mushroom:
"...reishi may be useful in the form of a supplement during radiotherapy or chemotherapy to reduce various side effects, among them, bone marrow suppression and fatigue. Indeed...
Costing Health
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on April 30, 2007
(image via article at CBS)
CBS News reports "If you have ever wondered why the cost of prescription drugs in the United States are the highest in the world or why it's illegal to import cheaper drugs from Canada or Mexico, you need look no further than the pharmaceutical lobby and its...
Boston IVF, Frozen Eggs and a Pregnancy
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 9, 2007
...Women who want to become pregnant at a later time (i.e. cancer patients who may become sterile from chemotherapy) would benefit from this procedure.
Boston IVF uses a technology which replaces the f...
MRIs for Breast Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on March 28, 2007
...th 90 percent accuracy which tumors would respond when treated with ''neoadjuvant'' chemotherapy and which tumors would not. Neoadjuvant means the drugs are given before surgery, rathe...
How Much Are You Willing to Spend on Your Pet?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 1, 2007
...pet had any chance of recovery from an illness or physical problem. But today you can give your cat chemotherapy, you can have your dog's tumor operated on and feed it through a tube for the rest ...
Biomarker Test for Bladder Cancer Recurrence and Survival
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 20, 2007
...data could help doctors predict which patients might benefit from post-operative treatments such as chemotherapy.
"Patients who have alterations on all four biomarkers might benefit from Adjuv...
First Antisense Drug for Chemotherapy-Responsive Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 19, 2007
...; drug to be tested in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), shows promise as an adjunct therapy to chemotherapy drug fludarabine.
Oblimersen is an experimental agent that inhibits the production of ...
My Experience With Breast Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on February 16, 2007
Breast Cancer
The year was 1947. I was twelve years old and scared. Something was wrong. Mom cried a lot, spent hours lying on her bed, and refused to talk to anyone. Dad walked around looking angry and growled at me when I spoke to him. I'd seen him like this before. He wasn'...
Protein Biomarkers Predict Bladder Cancer Recurrence and Survival
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 6, 2007
...ted, the findings suggest that mutations on all four markers could indicate the need for Adjuvant chemotherapy to increase survival rates among such patients....
Dual Gene Therapy Against Lung Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 17, 2007
... In addition to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, there may now be an additional treatment modality for cancers: dual gene therapy.
In a preclinical study, two tumor-suppressing genes, packag...
First Autologous Cord Blood Transplant for Childhood Leukemia Worldwide, Recently Announced by CorCell (a Cord Blood America Company)
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 5, 2007
...ted central nervous system relapse. This occurred 10-months after diagnosis while she was receiving chemotherapy.
Find more details from the press release .
Corcell is a company of Cord Blood Ame...
Abbott's ABT-737: A Hope of a More Effective, Less Toxic Cancer Drug
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 30, 2006
...ts potential as a cancer drug that may prove to be more effective and less toxic than the current chemotherapy drugs.
While the conventional chemotherapy drugs target and attempt to kill rapidly di...
Sphingosine Phosphate Lyase (SPL): Human Enzyme Programmable to Kill Cancer Cells
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 29, 2006
...d SPL as a key regulator of cancer cells. They discovered that if the cancer cells were stressed by chemotherapy, SPL could be activated or "turned on" to reduce the levels of S1P, which is ...
Antibody JAA-F11 Inhibits Breast Cancer Metastasis
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 29, 2006
In mice trials, a monoclonal antibody named JAA-F11 has been shown to extend the survival of mice with human breast-cancer tumors and to inhibit the cancer's spread to the lungs by more than 50 percent.
JAA-F11, targets a particular disaccharide, an antigen known as TF-Ag, which aids t...
Tea Extracts Reduce Skin Damages of Radiotherapy Among Cancer Patients
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 11, 2006
...ested to prevent cancer by way of its anti-inflammatory properties. In cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, topically-applied tea extracts have also been found to help counter radiation-induc...
Electric Device To Treat Brain Tumors Enters Phase III Clinical Trials
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 26, 2006
...of patients for a clinical trial to compare traditional treatment for brain tumors such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy to a new noninvasive therapy that provides alternating electri...
Vitespen (Oncophage) Vaccine Shows Promising Results Against Glioma
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 17, 2006
...limit the debilitating side effects typically associated with traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Vitespen is also on trials, and has received fast track and orp...
New Locally Applied Treatment for Retinoblastoma
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 3, 2006
...ive, reducing tumor size significantly more than the most effective known combination of standard chemotherapy drugs .
"Our finding with locally applied nutlin-3 also has major implication...
Microbially Produced Antibiotics as Cancer Drug Candidates
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 2, 2006
Researchers are exploring a method of producing powerful antibiotics called prodiginines which may also have potentials as anti-cancer drugs. Because these compounds are difficult to synthesize chemically, researchers are looking coaxing microorganisms to produce them.
Professor Greg Chall...
Genomic Tests to Guide Choice of Chemotherapy
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 23, 2006
...sts have the potential to save lives and reduce patients' exposure to the toxic side effects of chemotherapy, said Anil Potti, M.D., the study's lead investigator and an assistant professor of...
Erkältung aus dem Hotel - ein Forschungsergebnis
in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on 03.10.06
...rginia, Charlottesville), Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, San Francisco
Bildquelle: virtuelle-apotheke ...
Aromatase Inhibitors Improve Survival Of Advanced Breast Cancer Patients
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 22, 2006
According to a meta-analysis study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , aromatase inhibitors --such as vorozole, letrozole, examestane, and anastrazole-- improve the survival of advanced breast cancer patients and may therefore be used as an initial therapy for these pat...
Cell Therapeutics and Novartis Co-Develop Poliglumex Paclitaxel
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 19, 2006
...n Taxol®, to a biodegradable >polyglutamate polymer .
When bound to the polymer , the chemotherapy is rendered inactive, potentially sparing normal tissue's exposure to high levels of u...
Oncaspar® (pegaspargase): USFDA Approved for Newly-Diagnosed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 27, 2006
... adults with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as part of a multiple drug chemotherapy regimen.
Oncaspar® is one of the first FDA-approved products that include prescription...
A Case of Metastasised Lung Cancer
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 12, 2006
...ucted two days ago.
Biopsy results? Benign. Making hers the 76th case in the world.
Next step? No chemotherapy. No surgery. Just medication I guess to dissolve the nodules.
Any similar case you kn...
Antibiotikum: neue Funktionsweise
in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on 10.05.06
...technologische Forschung und ihre Kollegen im Fachblatt "Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy". Statt auf breiter Front das Lungengewebe zu attackieren, verhielten sich die Keime mangels ...
Golden Palace Says They Spent too Little on Latest Auction
in The Gambling Weblog, on May 10, 2006
...r old Maddox Johnson
Maddox came up with an idea to post his artwork on Ebay to help pay for his chemotherapy. He has T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma .
Golden Palace spent $2,873.75 to buy up...
World Cup 2006 Budget Options
in The Flyaway Weblog, on May 5, 2006
... mentioned by Gridskipper , " since you already spent a year's pay, your inheritance, your chemotherapy allowance, and your entire Barclays cash advance limit on game tickets, it's best t...
PET and CT Scan Combo For Accurate Cancer Treatment
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 4, 2006
...t undergo surgery or radiation for early-stage cancer and some combination of radiation, surgery or chemotherapy for advanced cases. However, these high doses of radiation that the patients receive ca...
Novel Vaccine Against Brain Tumor Growth
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 28, 2006
... new growth pathway.
"This is a proof of concept, and optimal use of the vaccine may be with chemotherapy to further retard progression," says Heimberger. "Still, this is exciting to ...
Chemotherapy In A Gel: An Alternative to Radiation Therapy in Breast Cancer Surgeries
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 27, 2006
For those diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, breast sparing surgery followed by radiation therapy is currently a better alternative to a full mastectomy . However, radiation therapy is costly and often worsens the breast deformities resulting from the surgery.
Scientists and bioeng...
