Industry News
The Link Between Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer And Indoor Tanning
Apr 24, 2013
The widespread liking for sunbeds continues to place a huge amount of individuals at risk of developing non-melanoma skin cancer. Adding further concern to the link between sunbeds and non-melanoma cancer was a recent study carried out by the University of California, San Francisco... Read More
Oral Mucositis Treatment, Gelclair®, Launched In US
Apr 24, 2013
The Swiss pharmaceutical Helsinn Group, a leading player in the cancer supportive care arena, have announced that DARA BioSciences, Inc., a U.S. specialty pharmaceutical company focused on oncology and oncology supportive care products, has launched Gelclair(R)into the U.S. market... Read More
Mammograms Reveal Response To Common Cancer Drug
Apr 24, 2013
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a method for assessing the effect of tamoxifen, a common drug to prevent the relapse of breast cancer. The key lies in monitoring changes in the proportion of dense tissue, which appears white on a mammogram, during treatment... Read More
Two Items Key To Decrease Symptoms And Prolong Survival For Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis Patients
Apr 24, 2013
Lung cancer is one of the most common primary cancers that cause leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC), when cancer spreads to the membranes surrounding the spinal cord and brain. Cases of LMC have increased because of the improved survival of lung cancer patients with the help of new advances in treatment... Read More
Patients With Lung Cancer Who Carry Specific HER2 Mutations May Benefit From Certain Anti-HER2 Treatments
Apr 24, 2013
New results from a retrospective study conducted in Europe suggest that anti-HER2 treatments, like the widely used breast cancer agent trastuzumab (Herceptin), have anti-cancer effects in a small subset of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring specific HER2 protein mutations... Read More
Elderly Patients With Bone Metastases Benefit From Palliative Radiotherapy
Apr 24, 2013
Giving palliative radiotherapy to elderly patients with painful bone metastases can significantly improve their quality of life, a Dutch researcher told the 2nd Forum of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)... Read More
Discovery of Metastasis Stem Cells In The Blood Of Breast Cancer Patients
Apr 24, 2013
Individual cancer cells that break away from the original tumor and circulate through the blood stream are considered responsible for the development of metastases. These dreaded secondary tumors are the main cause of cancer-related deaths. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) detectable in a patient's blood are associated with a poorer prognosis... Read More
Ovarian Cancer May Be Detected Early By Testing Cells From Uterus Or Cervix
Apr 24, 2013
Pioneering biophotonics technology developed in the US can detect nanoscale changes in cells from the cervix and uterus that may indicate early stage ovarian cancer, according to a study published this month in the International Journal of Cancer... Read More
Breast Cancer Growth And Spread May Be Controlled By New Agent
Apr 24, 2013
A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) suggests that an unusual experimental drug can reduce breast-cancer aggressiveness, reverse resistance to the drug fulvestrant and perhaps improve the effectiveness of other breast-cancer drugs... Read More
Pronounced Reduction In Breast Density During Tamoxifen Treatment Reduces Risk Of Dying From Breast Cancer
Apr 24, 2013
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method for assessing the effect of tamoxifen, a common drug to prevent the relapse of breast cancer. The key lies in monitoring changes in the proportion of dense tissue, which appears white on a mammogram, during treatment... Read More
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