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Longer Life Expectancy, Aging Population Necessitate New Strategies for Prostate Cancer Care
December 4, 2012 Medical researchers have described the modern state of prostate cancer care -- examining not only new drugs but entirely new classes of drugs that may be effective and well-tolerated in an aging ... > full story -
Drug Shows Promise in Prostate Cancer Spread to Bone: Tumors Were Reduced on Bone Scans, Bone Pain Decreased After Patients Received Cabozantinib
December 4, 2012 A new drug demonstrated dramatic and rapid effects on prostate cancer that had spread to the bone, according to a new ... > full story -
Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Shows Promise for Treatment of Pediatric Cancer
December 4, 2012 Nanotechnology shows potential for the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents in a way that attacks cancer cells without harming healthy cells. Encapsulated dexamethasone delivered to pre-clinical ... > full story -
Predicting the Age at Menopause of Women Having Suffered from Childhood Cancers
December 4, 2012 Researchers studied the age at menopause of a cohort of 706 women who had suffered from childhood cancer. The data revealed that these women, in particular those who had undergone unilateral ... > full story -
Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons Rescue Motor Defects in Parkinsonian Monkeys
December 3, 2012 Researchers have derived dopaminergic neurons from bone marrow stem cells in ... > full story -
Ponatinib Acts Against the Most Resistant Types of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
November 28, 2012 Phase I trial shows third-generation drug helps patients after other treatments ... > full story -
Groundbreaking Study May Change Transplant Practices
November 20, 2012 New research may change the current blood and marrow transplantation practices. The phase III, multicenter study compared harvesting stem cells from bone marrow rather than blood and suggests there ... > full story -
Bone Metastases Treatment Can Improve Overall Survival
November 15, 2012 One of the most frequent sites of metastases is the bone, with an estimated 30 to 40 percent of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer developing bone loss. A study shows that the bone metastases ... > full story -
Umbilical Cord Cells Outperform Bone Marrow Cells in Repairing Damaged Hearts
November 15, 2012 A new study has shown that cells derived from the umbilical cord are more effective in restoring heart function after an acute myocardial infarction (in common parlance, a heart attack) in a ... > full story -
How Chronic Inflammation Can Cause Cancer
November 12, 2012 A new study has found that interleukin-15 (IL-15) alone can cause large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia, a rare and usually fatal form of cancer. The researchers developed a treatment for the ... > full story
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