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Overcoming Inhibitors Of Cell Death Improves Cancer Therapy Efficacy
August 2, 2008 — Individuals with one of the most aggressive types of brain tumor have an extremely poor prognosis. Although some patients with GBM respond to treatment with drugs known as RTK inhibitors, most ... > full story -
Lapatinib Reduces Brain Metastases In Mouse Model Of Metastatic Breast Cancer
July 29, 2008 — Lapatinib reduces the number of large brain metastases in a mouse model of metastatic breast cancer, relative to untreated mice, researchers ... > full story -
Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Allowed More Chemotherapy To Reach Brain Tumors In Laboratory Study
July 28, 2008 — In a study using laboratory animals, researchers found that medications commonly prescribed for erectile dysfunction opened a mechanism called the blood-brain tumor barrier and increased delivery of ... > full story -
Breakthrough In Understanding Tumor Immune Therapy: Induction Of Tumor Dormancy Instead Of Killing
June 11, 2008 — Researchers have uncovered an entirely new understanding on how the immune system may control tumor development. Until now it is strongly believed that the immune system controls growth of tumors by ... > full story -
Cancer-Killing Viruses Influence Tumor Blood-Vessel Growth
June 10, 2008 — Viruses genetically designed to kill cancer cells offer a promising strategy for treating incurable brain tumors, but the body often eliminates the viruses before they can eliminate the tumor. This ... > full story -
Vaccine May Double Survival In Patients With Deadly Brain Tumors
June 2, 2008 — A vaccine aimed at inducing immunity to the most common and deadly type of brain tumor may stave off recurrence and more than double survival in patients, according to a new ... > full story -
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Young Age May Give Survival Advantage To Children With Certain Brain Tumors
May 29, 2008 — Investigators have shown that children under 3 years old who have a brain tumor called diffuse pontine glioma appear to have a better outcome than older children with the same ... > full story -
Patients 75 Years And Older With Brain Tumors May Benefit From More Aggressive Treatment
May 19, 2008 — Elderly patients -- 75 years old and older -- with malignant brain tumors are not treated as aggressively as patients between 65 and 75 years old. Furthermore, researchers found that if patients over ... > full story -
Retraining Immune Cells To Kill Tumors
May 19, 2008 — Tumors escape destruction by immune cells by turning off their tumor killing functions. A team of scientists have now found a way to retrain the impotent cells into potent tumor ... > full story -
Cancer Stem Cells May Be At The Root Of Brain Tumors
May 16, 2008 — Stem cells -- popularly known as a source of biological rejuvenation -- may play harmful roles in the body, specifically in the growth and spread of cancer. Amongst the wildly dividing cells of a ... > full story
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