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Washington's Death With Dignity Act: Study Details SCCA's Plan To Honor Both Patients' Wishes And Voters' Mandate
Apr 12, 2013
By the end of 2011, most of the 255 Washington residents who received a prescription for lethal medication to end their lives under the state's Death with Dignity Act had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Of those, 40 were patients at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, part of the Pacific Northwest's only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center... Read More
In Bladder Cancer Metastasis, A Little Molecule Makes A Big Difference
Apr 12, 2013
In order to kill, bladder cancer must metastasize, most commonly to the lung - what are the differences between bladder cancers that do and do not make this deadly transition? Research presented by the Director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 shows that one big difference is a little molecule known as hsa-miR-146a... Read More
Discovery Of Signature Of Circulating Breast Tumor Cells That Metastasize To The Brain
Apr 12, 2013
Some breast tumor circulating cells in the bloodstream are marked by a constellation of biomarkers that identify them as those destined to seed the brain with a deadly spread of cancer, said researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the journal Science Translational Medicine... Read More
Overwhelming Evidence Adds A Major New Target In Breast Cancer: Androgens Including Testosterone
Apr 12, 2013
Estrogen and progesterone receptors, and the gene HER2 - these are the big three markers and/or targets in breast cancer. Evidence presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 adds a fourth: androgen receptors... Read More
Reactivation Of Six2 Homeoprotein Allows Breast Cancer Cells To Detach And Metastasize
Apr 12, 2013
In results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center show that the Six2 homeoprotein, while not involved in primary tumor growth, allows cells to detach from substrate and survive their transition through the bloodstream to faraway sites of metastasis. "Here we show for the first time that Six2 causes breast cancer progression... Read More
Drug Combination Of MK-1775 And Gemcitabine More Effective In Treating Sarcomas
Apr 12, 2013
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida have found that when given together, a two-drug combination acts synergistically in test animals modeled with sarcoma tumors. They report that the drug combination of MK-1775 and gemcitabine resulted in a 70 percent decrease in the tumor volume when compared to receiving one drug or the other... Read More
Auto Pollution Exposure May Be Linked To Some Childhood Cancers
Apr 12, 2013
Scientists from UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health led by Julia Heck, an assistant researcher in the school's epidemiology department and a member of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, have found a possible link between exposure to traffic-related air pollution and several childhood cancers... Read More
Positive Clinical Data Presented For Lead Accurin Candidate BIND-014 In Cancer Patients
Apr 12, 2013
BIND Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of highly selective targeted and programmable therapeutics called AccurinsTM, has announced that positive Phase 1 clinical data for BIND-014, the company's lead drug candidate, were presented in an oral presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2013 Annual Meeting... Read More
"Death With Dignity" Program Is Rarely Used
Apr 11, 2013
Doctors, patients, and their families have been okay with a "Death with Dignity" physician-assisted suicide program that is available to patients with fatal cancer at a Seattle clinic, a study suggests... Read More
Melanoma Succumbs To Natural Plant Substance Gossypin In Lab Tests
Apr 11, 2013
For the first time, using lab tests on cell cultures and mice, researchers in the US have shown that gossypin, a naturally-occurring substance found in plants, may be an effective treatment against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer... Read More
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