Medical News on Cancer
Early-stage cancer up to 4 times more likely to go untreated in HIV-positive people
Jul 02, 2014
HIV-infected people diagnosed with cancer are two to four times more likely to go untreated for their cancer compared to uninfected cancer patients, according to a new, large retrospective study from... Read More
Powerful new imaging technology will enable extraordinary gains in bioimaging, health research
Jul 02, 2014
Researchers have announced the creation of an imaging technology more powerful than anything that has existed before, and is fast enough to observe life processes as they actually happen at the... Read More
Precious therapeutic cargo could be carried by engineered red blood cells
Jul 02, 2014
Whitehead Institute scientists have genetically and enzymatically modified red blood cells to carry a range of valuable payloads - from drugs, to vaccines, to imaging agents - for delivery to... Read More
Survival rate following blast trauma increased by clot-building nanoparticles
Jul 02, 2014
A type of artificial platelet being developed to help natural blood platelets form clots faster offers promise for saving the lives of soldiers, as well as victims of car crashes and other severe... Read More
New data from FIRE-3 study shows significant improvement in tumour response and shrinkage
Jul 01, 2014
New data, presented at the 16th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (WCGC), has shown significantly higher overall response rate (ORR) (72.5% vs. 55.5%) (p=0. Read More
Breast cancer and other aggressive cancers may respond to anti-inflammatory drugs
Jul 01, 2014
New research raises the prospect that some cancer patients with aggressive tumors may benefit from a class of anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Read More
Abnormal blood clots in the brain offer drug target for Alzheimer's
Jul 01, 2014
Without a steady supply of blood, neurons can't work. That's why one of the culprits behind Alzheimer's disease is believed to be the persistent blood clots that often form in the brains of... Read More
In KRAS wild-type MCRC, equivalent survival offered by cetuximab or bevacizumab with combi chemo
Jul 01, 2014
For patients with KRAS wild-type untreated colorectal cancer, adding cetuximab or bevacizumab to combination chemotherapy offers equivalent survival, researchers said at the ESMO 16th World Congress... Read More
Back and abdomen pain an increased risk for colon cancer survivors
Jul 01, 2014
Researchers from the University of Granada discover that colon cancer patients experience abnormalities in processing chronic pain that increase their sensitization to pain of any kind in the... Read More
Potential new use for cancer drug in gene therapy for blood disorders
Jul 01, 2014
Scientists working to make gene therapy a reality have solved a major hurdle: how to bypass a blood stem cell's natural defenses and efficiently insert disease-fighting genes into the cell's genome. Read More
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