Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

Preclinical data of Emergent BioSolutions' ES414 in mCRPC presented at PEGS 2013

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. today announced that it presented preclinical data on its lead bispecific ADAPTIRTM (Modular Protein Technology) molecule, ES414, at the 9th Annual Protein and Antibody Engineering Summit, currently underway in Boston, MA.

3 May 2013

EntreMed announces issuance of patent for clinical-stage compound, 2-methoxyestradiol

EntreMed, Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for the treatment of a variety of cancers, announced the issuance of a U.S. patent covering methods of treatment and formulations for its clinical-stage compound, 2-methoxyestradiol.

3 May 2013

Study results may help introduce better preoperative treatment for breast cancer

Breast cancers contain many different cell types with different patterns of gene expression, but a new study provides reassurance that this variability should not be a barrier to using gene expression tests to help tailor cancer treatments to individual patients.

3 May 2013

Scientists spell out pivotal role of Peli1 in mouse model of multiple sclerosis

Scientists have identified an influential link in a chain of events that leads to autoimmune inflammation of the central nervous system in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis.

3 May 2013

New technology to study interactions between metal elements, molecules in living organisms

Metal elements and molecules interact in the body but visualizing them together has always been a challenge. Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan have developed a new molecular imaging technology that enables them to visualize bio-metals and bio-molecules simultaneously in a live mouse.

3 May 2013

Researchers describe alterations in long noncoding RNA sequences in Rett syndrome

Researchers at the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at IDIBELL led by Manel Esteller, ICREA researcher and professor of genetics at the University of Barcelona, have described alterations in noncoding long chain RNA sequences in Rett syndrome.

3 May 2013

Weekend reading: Overweight doctors; ADHD diagnosis wars; States cut treatment for mentally ill; The war on breast cancer

Recently, a survey of three decades of screening published in November in The New England Journal of Medicine found that mammography's impact is decidedly mixed: it does reduce, by a small percentage, the number of women who are told they have late-stage cancer, but it is far more likely to result in overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, including surgery, weeks of radiation and potentially toxic drugs.

3 May 2013

Shore Medical Center inks affiliation agreement with The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Shore Medical Center is pleased to announce it has entered into an affiliation agreement with The Cancer Institute of New Jersey - the state's only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

3 May 2013

Viewpoints: S.C. House race spotlights Dems' discomfort with health law; Cannon, Cohn offer contrasting views of Medicaid study

The media tittering over Mrs. Colbert Busch's decision to publicly slap the former Republican governor over his extramarital affair obscured the more notable political comment of the night.

3 May 2013

UC San Diego Health System receives national award for providing quality care to cancer patients

UC San Diego Health System is a recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer.

3 May 2013

Everolimus reverses trastuzumab resistance in early HER-2 positive breast cancer

A study that aimed to understand how the cancer drug everolimus helps overcome the resistance breast cancers can develop to trastuzumab has left researchers contemplating a puzzle.

3 May 2013

Researchers develop formula to determine best locations to place AED

Prompt use of an automated external defibrillator, or AED, can greatly increase the survival rates of people who suffer a cardiac arrest. And MIE Professor Tim Chan, working with Dr. Laurie Morrison at St. Michael's Hospital, has developed a formula to determine where best to place these costly but life-saving devices.

3 May 2013

Roundup: Calif. regulator says insurer's proposed rate hikes are 'unreasonable'; Iowa lawmakers push to deny abortion funding in Medicaid

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said the nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is imposing unreasonable rate hikes on about 5,000 small businesses. Jones said Wednesday that UnitedHealth couldn't justify the average annual increase of nearly 8 percent, which reflects both higher premiums and a reduction in benefits (Terhune, 5/1).

3 May 2013

High costs of cancer drugs may harm patients, say experts

The extremely high prices of recent cancer drugs "may be causing harm to patients," a large group of international leukemia experts warns.

3 May 2013

Loyola takes steps to educate children about sun safety

Having one blistering sunburn in childhood or adolescence more than doubles a person's chance of developing melanoma later in life, yet less than one-third of all young people take the proper steps to protect their skin from excessive sun exposure, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

3 May 2013

Emphasizing STD prevention will persuade young women to get HPV vaccine, study suggests

The HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women.

3 May 2013

Increased accumulation of coronary artery calcium leads to heart attack risk

Patients with increasing accumulations of coronary artery calcium were more than six times more likely to suffer from a heart attack or die from heart disease than patients who didn't have increasing accumulations, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

3 May 2013

Variations in the sequencing of TERT gene influence risk of breast, ovarian cancers

A major international study involving a Simon Fraser University scientist has found that sequence differences in a gene crucial to the maintenance of our chromosomes' integrity predispose us to certain cancers.

3 May 2013

Measurement variation influences gene expression profiles of breast cancer

An important new study has revealed the clearest picture yet of precisely how much measurement variation influences gene expression profiles of breast cancer.

3 May 2013

Men who take statins are less likely to die from prostate cancer, study finds

Men with prostate cancer who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins are significantly less likely to die from their cancer than men who don't take such medication, according to study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

3 May 2013

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

Preclinical data of Emergent BioSolutions' ES414 in mCRPC presented at PEGS 2013

EntreMed announces issuance of patent for clinical-stage compound, 2-methoxyestradiol

Study results may help introduce better preoperative treatment for breast cancer

Scientists spell out pivotal role of Peli1 in mouse model of multiple sclerosis

New technology to study interactions between metal elements, molecules in living organisms

Researchers describe alterations in long noncoding RNA sequences in Rett syndrome

Weekend reading: Overweight doctors; ADHD diagnosis wars; States cut treatment for mentally ill; The war on breast cancer

Shore Medical Center inks affiliation agreement with The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Viewpoints: S.C. House race spotlights Dems' discomfort with health law; Cannon, Cohn offer contrasting views of Medicaid study

UC San Diego Health System receives national award for providing quality care to cancer patients

Everolimus reverses trastuzumab resistance in early HER-2 positive breast cancer

Researchers develop formula to determine best locations to place AED

Roundup: Calif. regulator says insurer's proposed rate hikes are 'unreasonable'; Iowa lawmakers push to deny abortion funding in Medicaid

High costs of cancer drugs may harm patients, say experts

Loyola takes steps to educate children about sun safety

Emphasizing STD prevention will persuade young women to get HPV vaccine, study suggests

Increased accumulation of coronary artery calcium leads to heart attack risk

Variations in the sequencing of TERT gene influence risk of breast, ovarian cancers

Measurement variation influences gene expression profiles of breast cancer

Men who take statins are less likely to die from prostate cancer, study finds

Industry Focus eBook - Oncology (1st Edition) eBook

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

Industry Focus eBook - Oncology (1st Edition) eBook

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Newsletters you may be interested in