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Blood Test Tracks Response To Cancer Treatment
Mar 18, 2013
A blood test that tracks fragments of DNA shed by dying tumor cells could one day be used to monitor how well patients are responding to cancer treatment, according to a small study in women with advanced breast cancer. Such a test could provide a non-invasive alternative to biopsies, and help adapt treatment to individual patients and the progress of disease... Read More
In Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer, Study Shows Additional Role For Abiraterone In Blocking Tumor Growth
Mar 18, 2013
As part of an EU-supported IMI-PREDECT consortium, a Dutch study showed that anti-androgenic properties of the drug abiraterone may provide an additional mechanism of action in blocking tumour growth of castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)... Read More
Novel Therapeutic Strategy For Erectile Dysfunction
Mar 18, 2013
Transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells cultivated on the surface of nanofibrous meshes could be a novel therapeutic strategy against post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction (ED), conclude the authors of a study which is to be presented at the 28th Annual EAU Congress later this week... Read More
Potential Of Combined Vaccine And Steroid Drug In Castration Resistant PCa Shown By Japanese P2 Study
Mar 18, 2013
Multi-peptide vaccination therapy combined with the low-dose steroid drug dexamethasone shows promise in treating chemotherapy-naive castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients... Read More
In Men With Localized PCa, Surgery Is Superior To Radiotherapy: Swedish Study
Mar 18, 2013
Surgery offers better survival benefit for men with localised prostate cancer, according to a large observational study, conducted by a group of researchers in Sweden and the Netherlands. The study won the second prize for best abstract in oncology at the 28th Annual EAU Congress which opened in Milan 15 March... Read More
Childhood Cancer And Survivor Fertility
Mar 18, 2013
As success rates in treating childhood cancers have improved, greater emphasis is being placed on quality of life issues following successful treatment. Many cancer treatments can lead to infertility, but there are few methods to preserve the fertility of children who have not entered puberty... Read More
How Vitamin E Can Help Prevent Cancer
Mar 18, 2013
Researchers have identified an elusive anti-cancer property of vitamin E that has long been presumed to exist, but difficult to find. Many animal studies have suggested that vitamin E could prevent cancer, but human clinical trials following up on those findings have not shown the same benefits... Read More
For Children With Hurler's Syndrome, Cord Blood Effective Alternative To Matched Donor Stem Cells
Mar 18, 2013
Transplants of blood-forming stem cells from umbilical cord blood may be an effective alternative to transplants of matched donor bone marrow stem cells to treat children with a rare, debilitating disease known as Hurler's syndrome (HS), according to results of a study published online in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH)... Read More
Staggeringly Low Uptake Of HPV Vaccine Points To Failures In Patient Education, Vaccine Programs
Mar 18, 2013
Completion rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series across both genders continue to remain alarmingly low nearly seven years after its introduction, suggesting that better patient education and increased public vaccine financing programs are needed, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)... Read More
Kinase Inhibitors Could Keep Cancer Patients Alive For Much Longer
Mar 18, 2013
Kinase inhibitors, a class of cutting-edge cancer medications, could keep patients alive for far longer than is currently possible after scientists from the University of Sussex and The Institute of Cancer Research, England, discovered how they attack tumors... Read More
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