Cancer News and Research

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New clinical trial to prevent aggressive type of breast cancer

In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, physician-scientists at University Hospitals Case Medical Center are exploring a new method to potentially prevent recurrence of an early stage, aggressive type of breast cancer.

9 Mar 2011

ADAM-12 gene can serve as treatment target for cancer, arthritis, cardiac hypertrophy

ADAM-12 is not only the name of a 1970's television police drama - it's also the gene that University of Missouri researchers believe could be an important element in the fight against cancer, arthritis, and cardiac hypertrophy, or thickening of the heart's walls.

9 Mar 2011

Study finds increase in oral tongue cancer incidence in young US white females

A UNC study released this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finds an increasing incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue in young white females in the United States over the last three decades.

9 Mar 2011

Study: HBV infection reduces risk of liver metastasis in CRC patients

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Western countries. Metastatic liver disease more frequently develops metachronous metastasis following treatment of CRC.

9 Mar 2011

Plexxikon commences PLX3397 Phase 2 trial in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma

Plexxikon today announced that it has treated the first patient in a Phase 2 clinical trial in Hodgkin lymphoma with PLX3397. This novel agent is an oral, selective inhibitor that down-modulates two key cell types that are thought to mediate the progression of Hodgkin lymphoma tumors — macrophages and mast cells.

8 Mar 2011

CCCB selects CLC bio's enterprise platform for next generation sequence analysis

After a thorough head-to-head evaluation against various competing solutions, the Center for Cancer Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has selected CLC bio's enterprise platform for next generation sequence analysis.

8 Mar 2011

Single-wall carbon nanotubes targeted and killed cancer cells without harming the healthy cells

SouthWest NanoTechnologies’ (SWeNT) Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNT) exhibit promising potential for use in biomedical treatments such as cancer photo thermal therapies, new research reveals.

8 Mar 2011

Study analyzes role of PARP enzyme in eukaryotes

An Ohio State University molecular biologist leveraged a supercomputer to help better define the family tree of a group of enzymes that have been implicated in a wide range of human diseases and are important targets for anti-cancer therapies.

8 Mar 2011

Patrys succeeds in obtaining commercial yields for its anti-cancer antibody therapeutic

Patrys Limited (ASX: PAB), which is developing a new class of antibody molecules for the treatment of cancer, is pleased to announce success in obtaining commercial production yields for natural human antibody PAT-SC1, facilitating the advancement of this promising product toward a second human clinical trial for the treatment of cancer.

8 Mar 2011

$100 million in grants for medical research announced

More than $100 million in grants was announced this Tuesday for an ambitious research project that will try to find what makes cancer so hard to beat. This project received $21.3 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council grants.

8 Mar 2011

Henry Schein MicroMD EMR Version 7.5 attains ONC-ATCB Complete EHR certification status

Henry Schein MicroMD, a provider of proven and cost-effective practice management and electronic medical records systems, announced today that its MicroMD EMR Version 7.5 achieved ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Complete EHR Certification, and can help health care providers using Electronic Health Record technology meet the requirements needed to receive financial incentives earmarked under President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

8 Mar 2011

New insight into malaria

A group of researchers from EPFL's Global Health Institute and Inserm has discovered that a class of chemotherapy drugs originally designed to inhibit key signaling pathways in cancer cells also kills the parasite that causes malaria.

8 Mar 2011

Compugen reports positive results from CGEN-25068 in animal model to treat certain disease conditions

Compugen Ltd. announced today positive animal model results for CGEN-25068, a novel peptide predicted and selected in silico to block a specific protein-protein interaction known to play an important role in various immune-related disease conditions.

8 Mar 2011

New discovery in childhood respiratory disease

Researchers have identified a critical part of the process by which one of the world's most common and dangerous early childhood infections, respiratory syncytial virus, causes disease.

8 Mar 2011

Neoprobe reports positive feedback from FDA for RIGScan development

Neoprobe Corporation, a diversified developer of innovative oncology surgical and diagnostic products, today announced that it has completed a successful pre-IND meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the development of RIGScan CR, the Company's proprietary radiopharmaceutical for the detection of colorectal cancer tumors.

8 Mar 2011

GTHP provides update on FDA PMA review for LightTouch non-invasive cervical cancer test

Guided Therapeutics, Inc., today provided an update on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration review process for its premarket approval application for the LightTouch non-invasive test for the early detection of cervical pre-cancer.

8 Mar 2011

University of California, Irvine purchase SpineAssist to conduct minimal invasive surgeries

Mazor Robotics Ltd., a developer of innovative surgical robots and complementary products, announced today that the University of California, Irvine Medical Center has purchased SpineAssist, Mazor Robotics' surgical robotic system that enables surgeons to conduct minimally invasive and complex spine surgeries in a safe and accurate manner.

8 Mar 2011

New study represents major reversal in thinking about universal screening programs

Screening every woman who comes to a health care centre does increase the number who acknowledge they have been abused by their partners, a new study confirms.

8 Mar 2011

New review shows difficulty in delivering high-quality cancer care

A shortage of oncologists and rising costs of chemotherapy and radiation therapies and imaging tests, are making delivering quality cancer care increasingly difficult, according to a new review by researchers at RTI International and Eli Lilly and Company.

8 Mar 2011

New report highlights wide range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants

The American Lung Association today released Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants, a new report that documents the range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants and the urgent need to clean them up to protect public health.

8 Mar 2011

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

New clinical trial to prevent aggressive type of breast cancer

ADAM-12 gene can serve as treatment target for cancer, arthritis, cardiac hypertrophy

Study finds increase in oral tongue cancer incidence in young US white females

Study: HBV infection reduces risk of liver metastasis in CRC patients

Plexxikon commences PLX3397 Phase 2 trial in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma

CCCB selects CLC bio's enterprise platform for next generation sequence analysis

Single-wall carbon nanotubes targeted and killed cancer cells without harming the healthy cells

Study analyzes role of PARP enzyme in eukaryotes

Patrys succeeds in obtaining commercial yields for its anti-cancer antibody therapeutic

$100 million in grants for medical research announced

Henry Schein MicroMD EMR Version 7.5 attains ONC-ATCB Complete EHR certification status

New insight into malaria

Compugen reports positive results from CGEN-25068 in animal model to treat certain disease conditions

New discovery in childhood respiratory disease

Neoprobe reports positive feedback from FDA for RIGScan development

GTHP provides update on FDA PMA review for LightTouch non-invasive cervical cancer test

University of California, Irvine purchase SpineAssist to conduct minimal invasive surgeries

New study represents major reversal in thinking about universal screening programs

New review shows difficulty in delivering high-quality cancer care

New report highlights wide range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants

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