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Women Under-Represented In Cancer Research

Women are under-represented in clinical cancer research published in high-impact journals.

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UNC scientists identify growth factor as possible cancer drug target

(University of North Carolina School of Medicine) Scientists at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center report finding a new angiogenesis protein, SFRP2, found in the blood vessels of numerous tumor sites, including breast prostate, lung, pancreas, ovarian, colon, kidney tumors and angiosarcomas. (continued...)

New Drug Hope For Advanced Melanoma

Early results of a trial found that a new drug that targets a genetic mutation found in over half of melanoma cases and some other cancers caused tumors to shrink and patients to live around 6 months longer without their disease getting worse, including those whose cancer had spread to the liver, (continued...)

Lung tumor promotion by curcumin

Curcumin exhibits anti-inflammatory and antitumor activity and is being tested in clinical trials as a chemopreventive agent for colon cancer. Curcumin's chemopreventive activity was tested in a transgenic mouse model of lung cancer that expresses the human Ki-ras^G12C allele in (continued...)

Wonder Cancer Drug Might Not Be Effective In Early Stages

A "wonder" drug that fights breast, lung and colon cancer by cutting off blood supply to tumors doesn't seem to pack the same punch in colon cancer caught early, according to research from Allegheny General Hospital presented Saturday at a national cancer conference in Florida. Avastin, made by pharmaceutical (continued...)

Doctors in New Hampshire Now Treating Cancer with Non-Invasive Image-Guided Radiosurgery Using Novalis Tx(TM) Technology

A 71-year old man with inoperable lung cancer is able to receive stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) treatment DOVER, N.H., May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Surgeons told Donald Bickford, 71, that due to the weakened condition of his lungs, ordinary surgery was not an option for removing his lung (continued...)

QIAGEN Launches Novel Product Enabling Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnostics And Cancer Detection

QIAGEN announced the launch of a novel product for extraction of free circulating fragments of tumor- and fetal-derived nucleic acids as well as viral nucleic acids in human blood. Scientists consider these DNA and RNA fragments to have great potential for the highly sensitive and non-invasive diagnosis (continued...)

AlphaVax Announces Full Enrollment In Phase I/II Study Of Active Immunotherapy In Patients With Advanced Or Metastatic Cancer

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- AlphaVax announced today the completion of enrollment in a Phase I/II CEA cancer immunotherapy study being conducted by the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Durham, NC. This Phase I/II study is an open-label, dose-escalation study to evaluate the safety and (continued...)

Preclinical Data Presented On ARIAD's Investigational MTOR Inhibitor, Deforolimus, In Lung Cancer And Other Solid Tumor Models

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA) announced the results of preclinical studies in support of the ongoing clinical evaluation of its oral investigational mTOR inhibitor, deforolimus, in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and certain other solid tumors. These findings, which are being presented (continued...)

Human lung tumors can eliminate Vitamin D

Human lung tumors have the ability to eliminate Vitamin D, a hormone with anti-cancer activity, a new study from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) suggests. (continued...)

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Human lung tumors can eliminate Vitamin D

Human lung tumors have the ability to eliminate Vitamin D, a hormone with anti-cancer activity, a new study from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) suggests.
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