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Molecular Profiling Timely For Tailoring Cancer Therapy

By on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | No Comments

A clinical trial has shown that patients, and their physicians, are eager to jump into next-era cancer care – analysis of an individual’s tumor to find and target genetic mutations that drive the cancer. Results of the study, CUSTOM, are being presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology* years before investigators thought they would be ready…

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Blocking The Protein-Protein Interaction Which Causes Ewing Sarcoma

By on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | No Comments

Continuous infusion of a novel agent not only halted the progression of Ewing sarcoma in rats, while some tumors also regressed to the point that cancer cells could not be detected microscopically, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center…

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Bankruptcy An Increased Risk Following Cancer Diagnosis

By on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | No Comments

People diagnosed with cancer are more than two-and-a-half times more likely to declare bankruptcy than those without cancer, according to a new study from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center…

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Study Suggests Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Carries Risk Of Metastasis And Death

By on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | No Comments

JAMA Dermatology Study Highlights A study by Chrysalyne D. Schmults, M.D., M.S.C.E., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and colleagues suggests cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) carries a low but significant risk of metastasis and death. The ten-year retrospective cohort study was conducted at an academic medical center in Boston, and included 985 patients with 1,832 tumors…

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Study Findings May Offer New Way To Kill Cancer Cells By Forcing Them Into An Alternative Programmed Death Pathway

By on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 | No Comments

When cells suffer too much DNA damage, they are usually forced to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis. However, cancer cells often ignore these signals, flourishing even after chemotherapy drugs have ravaged their DNA…

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Cancer Metastasis Promoted By Tumor-Activated Protein

By on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 | No Comments

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center report that cancers physically alter cells in the lymphatic system – a network of vessels that transports and stores immune cells throughout the body – to promote the spread of disease, a process called metastasis…

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Shared Decision Making And How Decision Aids Help Guide Choices For Cancer Screening

By on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 | No Comments

When it comes to a cancer diagnosis, timing can be everything – the sooner it’s found, the more treatable it is…

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Improvement In Quality Of End-Of-Life Care Offered By The Liverpool Care Pathway

By on Monday, May 13th, 2013 | No Comments

Death in hospital remains very common for cancer patients in developed countries. Although hospital surveys show that death was highly expected, patients dying in hospital have a high probability of unrelieved and poorly treated physical suffering, and emotional, spiritual and social distress…

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Tumors Invading The Aorta Successfully Removed Via Thoracic Endografts

By on Friday, May 10th, 2013 | No Comments

Tumors have the potential to grow locally and invade neighboring organs. Some chest tumors may invade one of the great vessels of the body, the aorta. Surgical removal of these tumors is very challenging and necessitates the support of a heart-lung machine. Therefore there is an increased risk of complication and death…

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Analysis Shows Cancer Biorepository Speeds Clinical Trials, Drug Development

By on Friday, May 10th, 2013 | No Comments

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center say identifying and selecting participants for phase II cancer clinical trials from a centralized warehouse of patient-donated biological data expedites participant accrual, reduces trial size, saves money, and may speed test drugs through the drug development pipeline…

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