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Promising New Approach to Treatment of Lung Cancer
Researchers have developed a
new drug delivery system
that allows inhalation of
chemotherapeutic drugs to
help treat lung cancer, and
in laboratory and animal
... > full story
Discovery Brings Hope of New Tailor-Made Anti-Cancer Agents
Scientists have tailor-made
a new chemical compound that
blocks a protein that has
been linked to poor
responses to treatment in
cancer patients. The
... > full story
Researchers Uncover a Genetic Vulnerability of Lung Cancer to Lay the Foundation for New Drug Options
Physician-researchers at UT
Southwestern have identified
a vulnerability of certain
lung-cancer cells – a
specific genetic weakness th ... > full story
Tweaking Gene Expression to Repair Lungs
A healthy lung has some
capacity to regenerate
itself like the liver. In
COPD, these reparative
mechanisms fail. HDAC
therapies may be useful for
... > full story
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'Undruggable' Cancer May Be Druggable After All: New Target Identified
June 17, 2013 — Researchers have identified in the most aggressive forms of cancer a gene known to regulate embryonic stem cell self-renewal, beginning a creative search for a drug that can block its ... > full story -
Clinical Sequencing Technology Identifies New Targets in Diverse Cancers
June 7, 2013 — Novel abnormalities in the FGFR gene were identified in a spectrum of cancers, and preliminary results with cancer cells harboring FGFR fusions suggested that some patients with these cancers may ... > full story -
Metastatic Tumors: New Path in Immunotherapy
June 3, 2013 — Cancer immunotherapy is showing promise in treating patients with a variety of advanced, metastatic tumors, as evidenced by two newly unveiled ... > full story -
Targeted Therapy Boosts Lung Cancer Outcomes
June 1, 2013 — Non-small cell lung cancer patients whose tumor cells had an abnormal ALK gene fared better if treated with crizotinib, a targeted therapy, than with traditional chemotherapy. Median progression-free ... > full story -
New Method for Predicting Cancer Virulence
May 24, 2013 — A new way of tackling cancer and predicting tumor virulence are has been reported by a team of researchers. The scientists have shown that, in all cancers, an aberrant activation of numerous genes ... > full story -
First Prospective Trial Shows Molecular Profiling Timely for Tailoring Therapy
May 15, 2013 — CUSTOM is the first completed prospective clinical trial that used genetic analysis alone to assign cancer treatment for patients with one of three different cancers. Findings suggest patients, and ... > full story -
New Cause for Common Lung Problem
May 6, 2013 — New research has found that in cases of lung edema, or fluid in the lungs, not only do the lungs fail to keep water out as previously believed, but they are also allowing water to pump ... > full story -
New, More Accurate Way of Imaging Lung Cancer Tumors
May 2, 2013 — Scientists have devised a new computational method for assessing lung cancer tumors using CT, PET or MRI diagnostic technologies. The method, called single click ensemble segmentation (SCES), uses a ... > full story -
Clarifying the Effect of Stem Cell Therapy on Cancer
April 28, 2013 — Injection of human stem cells into mice with tumors slowed down tumor growth, finds new research. Human mesenchymal stem cells, isolated from bone marrow, caused changes in blood vessels supplying ... > full story -
Researchers Observe an Increased Risk of Cancer in People With History of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer
April 23, 2013 — Researchers found that people with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer had a modestly increased risk of getting cancer in the future, specifically breast and lung cancer in women and melanoma in ... > full story
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