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Promising New Drug Could Help Patients Battling Deadly and Difficult to Treat Form of Melanoma
March 8, 2012 — Researchers say they may have discovered a new drug for the treatment of metastatic melanoma, one that uses the patient’s own tumor cells to customize the ... > full story -
New Universal Platform for Cancer Immunotherapy
March 5, 2012 — Researchers report a universal approach to personalized cancer therapy based on T cells. It is the first time a system for making an adaptable, engineered T-cell to attack specific tumor types has ... > full story -
Advancing Personalized Medicine: Tailoring Drugs to Fit a Patient's Genetic Predisposition
February 24, 2012 — Researchers are examining how drugs can be matched to a patient’s genetic information through the study of single nucleotide ... > full story -
Newly Identified Fusion Genes in Lung and Colorectal Cancer May Guide Treatment With 'Targeted' Drugs
February 13, 2012 — Novel gene abnormalities discovered in a subpopulation of lung and colorectal tumors could potentially identify patients with a good chance of responding to highly specific “targeted” ... > full story -
Scientists Use Old Theory to Discover New Targets in Fight Against Breast Cancer
February 7, 2012 — Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists have studied organ development in mice to ... > full story -
Ovarian Cancer Risk Related to Inherited Inflammation Genes
February 7, 2012 — Genes that are known to be involved in inflammation were found to be related to risk of ovarian ... > full story -
Stem Cells Could Drive Hepatitis Research Forward
February 1, 2012 — Researchers have produced liver-like cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. By creating liver-like cells, scientists can study why people respond differently to Hepatitis ... > full story -
Genes Linked to Cancer Could Be Easier to Detect With Liquid Lasers
January 31, 2012 — Using a liquid laser, researchers have developed a better way to detect the slight genetic mutations that might predispose a person to a particular type of cancer or other ... > full story -
Genetic Breakthrough for Brain Cancer in Children
January 30, 2012 — Scientists have made a major genetic breakthrough that could change the way pediatric cancers are treated in the future. The researchers identified two genetic mutations responsible for up to 40 per ... > full story -
Women With Certain Type of Ovarian Cancer and BRCA Gene Mutation Have Improved Survival at 5 Years
January 24, 2012 — Among women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer, patients having a germline (gene change in a reproductive cell that could be passed to offspring) mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes was ... > full story
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