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Archive for April 13th, 2011


Girl with leukemia needs help

… Lyka Mae Alvarado should be starting school. However, the 5-year-old was recently diagnosed with leukemia and would need to undergo chemotherapy for the next three years. As a result, …

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Newsweek Owner Sidney Harman Dies After ‘Brief Battle With Leukemia’

… and his children. In his last weeks he suffered from “complications from acute myeloid leukemia,” a condition he learned about only one month ago. Even after that point, according …

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Protesters step up their fight to pull plug on Mid Wales pylon plan

… protesters. But there have been studies that suggest that they do contribute to child leukaemia and other forms of cancers. Mr Davies said he is hugely concerned about the …

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Possible new approach to treating deadly leukemia in babies

… study points to a promising new approach to treating an aggressive and usually fatal leukemia in babies. The study involved a type of leukemia called mixed lineage leukemia, or …

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Strip Scribbles: Star chefs to honor Paul Bocuse at Vegas Uncork’d

… Boys at the Palazzo participated in the Gift of Hope Golf Tournament benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society at South Shore Golf Club at Lake Las Vegas yesterday. Singer …

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Parenting role shifts

… families the following day. One of the children, a 4-year-old girl, was suffering from leukemia. We learned a few days ago that the little girl had recently died. Matthew …

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Survival Benefit of Elective Neck Dissection in T1,2N0M0 Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Condition :   Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Interventions :   Procedure: elective neck dissection;   Procedure: watch and wait Sponsor :   Sun Yat-sen University Active, not recruiting – verified January 2011

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A Phase II Trial of OSI-906 and Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Cancer

Condition :   Liver Cancer Intervention :   Drug: Sorafenib and OSI-906 Sponsors :   Emory University;   OSI Pharmaceuticals Recruiting – verified April 2011

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High Dose Intravitreal Ranibizumab for Recalcitrant Radiation Retinopathy

Condition :   Radiation Retinopathy Intervention :   Drug: ranibizumab 2.0 mg Sponsors :   The New York Eye Cancer Center;   Genentech Not yet recruiting – verified April 2011

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Temsirolimus + Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)

Condition :   Hepatocellular Carcinoma Intervention :   Drug: Temsirolimus + Sorafenib Sponsor :   Philipps University Marburg Medical Center Recruiting – verified April 2011

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