News tagged with erlotinib
'Happy hour' gene discovery suggests cancer drugs might treat alcoholism
May 21, 2009 |
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A class of drugs already approved as cancer treatments might also help to beat alcohol addiction. That's the conclusion of a discovery in flies of a gene, dubbed happyhour, that has an important and previously unknown role ...
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Study finds that lung cancer patients respond to erlotinib following cetuximab therapy
Aug 02, 2009 |
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Non-small cell lung cancer patients who have progressed on a cetuximab-containing regimen may respond to erlotinib, Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers reported today at the annual meeting of the International Association ...
Advanced lung cancer patients see improved, progression-free survival
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose disease has progressed following chemotherapy have a higher rate of tumor shrinkage and a longer interval before cancer progression when bevacizumab is added to standard ...
Study shows drug combination improves outcome for advanced non-small cell lung cancer
May 31, 2009 |
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A new, international study found that the combination of two drugs delays disease progression for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Results from the Phase III "ATLAS" trial were presented today by ...
Cellular target may prove useful in treating deadly brain tumors
Apr 03, 2009 |
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Duke University researchers have identified a receptor on the surface of cells that may give them another avenue of attack against glioblastoma, the most common and most deadly type of brain cancer.
As head and neck cancer risks evolve, more treatment options emerge
Sep 10, 2008 |
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Advances in understanding head and neck cancer over the last decade have led to more treatment options and improved quality of life for patients, according to a review published this week in the New England Journal of Me ...
Newly discovered epidermal growth factor receptor active in human pancreatic cancers
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Finally some promising news about pancreatic cancer, one of the most fatal cancers, due to the difficulties of early detection and the lack of effective therapies: Johns Hopkins University pathologist Akhilesh Pandey has ...
Molecule plays early role in nonsmoking lung cancer
Jul 27, 2009 |
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The cause of lung cancer in never-smokers is poorly understood, but a study led by investigators at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and at the National Cancer Institute has identified a molecule believed ...
African American lung cancer patients may have different response to new cancer-fighting drugs
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Clinical research out of University Hospitals Case Medical Center has found that African Americans with a common form of lung cancer have a lower frequency of drug-sensitizing genetic mutations, which may impact response ...
Curbing hormones' effects in obese patients could aid against breast cancer
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Once-promising drugs that were abandoned in the fight against breast cancer still could be effective in obese patients, new research suggests.
Determining genetic signature of lung tumors can help guide treatment
May 20, 2008 |
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The first U.S. clinical trial using genetic screening to identify lung tumors likely to respond to targeted therapies supports the use of those drugs as first-line treatment rather than after standard chemotherapy has failed. ...
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