News tagged with cancer clinical trials
Vitamin D levels associated with survival in lymphoma patients
Dec 05, 2009 |
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A new study has found that the amount of vitamin D in patients being treated for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was strongly associated with cancer progression and overall survival. The results will be presented at the annual ...
Cuban cancer drug undergoes rare U.S. trial
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 04, 2009 |
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For the first time since Fidel Castro took power in Cuba over a half-century ago, a drug developed by the Communist regime is going through clinical trials in the United States.
Cornell makes cancer vaccine for clinical use
Aug 20, 2009 |
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The Bioproduction Facility at Cornell University has produced the first batch of NY-ESO-1 recombinant protein—a cancer vaccine—that will be used in clinical trials for patients facing either ovarian cancer or melanoma. The ...
Women under-represented in most cancer research
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Women continue to be under-enrolled in cancer clinical trials, according to a new review, published in the July 15, 2009 issue of CANCER. The study's results suggest that greater efforts are needed to ensure that oncologists know t ...
One in ten advanced colon cancer patients worry about prescription drug costs
May 29, 2009 |
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The vast majority of advanced colon cancer patients in a clinical trial were not concerned about the cost of prescription drugs for managing chemotherapy side effects, such as infection, pain and nausea and few adopted strategies ...
Novel therapy may prove effective in treatment of 30 percent of cancers
May 13, 2009 |
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A ground-breaking Canada-wide clinical trial led by Dr. Katherine Borden, at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, has shown that a common anti-viral drug, ...
