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Avastin dramatically improves response, survival in deadly recurrrent glioblastomas

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The targeted therapy Avastin, alone and in combination with the chemotherapy drug CPT-11, significantly increased response rates, progression-free survival times and survival rates in patients with a deadly form of brain ...


Why don't brain tumors respond to medication?

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Malignant brain tumors often fail to respond to promising new medication. Researchers in Heidelberg have discovered a mechanism and a tumor marker for the development of this resistance. A "death receptor" can possibly provide ...


Variations in 5 genes raise risk for most common brain tumors

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Common genetic variations spread across five genes raise a person's risk of developing the most frequent type of brain tumor, an international research team reports online in Nature Genetics.


Biomarkers predict brain tumor's response to therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, highlights a new biomarker that may be useful in identifying patients with recurrent glioblastoma, or brain tumors, who would respon ...


Researchers find possible way to block the spread of deadly brain tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) may have found a way to stop the often-rapid spread of deadly brain tumors.


Scientists identify chemical compound that may stop deadly brain tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a compound that could be modified to treat one of the most deadly types of cancer, and discovered how a particular gene mutation ...


Researchers develop novel glioblastoma mouse model

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human ...