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Anti-angiogenesis treatment improves hearing in some NF2 patients

Treatment with the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab improved hearing and alleviated other symptoms in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). In a paper to appear in the July 23 New England Journal of Medicine, which ...

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Tumor mechanism identified

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth (UK), the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Cornell University in New York, Weil Medical College in New York and the Center for Neural Tumour Research ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dogs, humans, put heads together to find cure for brain cancer

Pinpointing the genes involved in human brain cancer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and sometimes the needle you find may not be the right one. By comparing human and canine genomes, researchers at North ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research to lead to brain tumor therapies

Unique human in vitro model (cell culture) research currently underway at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England is set to identify and develop therapies for the treatment of multiple tumours in the brain.

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created Mar 24, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Mouse model for mesothelioma reproduces human disease

Scientists have established a mouse model for human malignant mesothelioma (MM) that will provide valuable insight into cancer development and progression along with new directions for design of therapeutic strategies. The ...

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created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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