Glioblastoma Classification Revision Should Improve Patient Care

Published: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Radiation oncology researchers have revised the system used by doctors since the 1990s to determine the prognosis of people with glioblastoma, which is the most devastating of malignant brain tumors. The outdated system was devised for glioblastoma and related brain tumors that were treated by radiation therapy only, and it relied on clinical signs and symptoms...

Patients With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Benefit From Accelerated Chemotherapy Given Before Surgery

Published: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

For some patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, treatment may begin before they undergo cystectomy, or surgical removal of the bladder. They may be advised by oncologists to receive chemotherapy before surgery...

Positive Survival Trend Seen In Phase I Study Of Temsirolimus, Capecitabine

Published: Fri, 18 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT

A phase I clinical trial examining the safety of combining temsirolimus and capecitabine in advanced malignancies suggests the two agents can be given safely to patients...

Lapatinib Combined With Cetuximab Overcomes Resistance In EGFR-Driven Tumors

Published: Fri, 18 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Targeted therapies have been studied for years, but recent laboratory research is providing robust clues about drugs that might work better in combination, particularly in treating cancers that have become resistant to therapy. That kind of information is behind a novel clinical trial at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center that combines cetuximab and lapatinib...

Make Or Break For Cellular Tissues

Published: Fri, 18 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Models developed to study liquids are used to investigate the mechanics of cellular tissues, which could further our understanding of embryonic development and cancer In a study about to be published in EPJ E¹, French physicists from the Curie Institute in Paris have demonstrated that the behaviour of a thin layer of cells in contact with an unfavourable substrate is akin...

Google Algorithm Finds Cancer Biomarkers

Published: Thu, 17 May 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Seven proteins that can help physicians evaluate how aggressive a patient's cancer is and whether or not they should receive chemotherapy have been identified by German researchers...

Groundbreaking Advance In Medical Diagnostics

Published: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Researchers have created an ultrasensitive biosensor that could open up new opportunities for early detection of cancer and "personalized medicine" tailored to the specific biochemistry of individual patients. The device, which could be several hundred times more sensitive than other biosensors, combines the attributes of two distinctly different types of sensors, said Muhammad A...

Some Dietary Supplements May Increase Cancer Risk

Published: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Beta-carotene, selenium and folic acid - taken up to three times their recommended daily allowance, these supplements are probably harmless. But taken at much higher levels as some supplement manufacturers suggest, these three supplements have now been proven to increase the risk of developing a host of cancers...

Under-Use Of Safer Kidney Cancer Surgery For Poorer, Sicker Medicare, Medicaid Patients

Published: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

An increasingly common and safer type of surgery for kidney cancer is not as likely to be used for older, sicker and poorer patients who are uninsured or rely on Medicare or Medicaid for their health care, according to a new study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital...

Gender Comparison In Kidney Cancer Surgery

Published: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Women do better than men after surgical removal of part or all of a cancerous kidney, with fewer post-operative complications, including dying in the hospital, although they are more likely to receive blood transfusions related to their surgery. But Henry Ford Hospital researchers who documented these gender differences can't say why they exist...