News tagged with recurrent glioblastoma
Biomarkers predict brain tumor's response to therapy
Jun 23, 2009 |
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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 ...
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Measles virus used to kill cancer cells
Oct 31, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers are starting the second of several pending molecular medicine studies in patients using measles to kill cancer cells.
Avastin dramatically improves response, survival in deadly recurrrent glioblastomas
Sep 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Treatment may need to be modified for elderly brain cancer patients
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive type of brain tumor, accounts for a majority of the brain tumors seen in patients 65 years or older. This segment of the population is growing faster than any other age group and ...
Researchers find molecule that targets brain tumors
Dec 29, 2008 |
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UC Davis Cancer Center researchers report today the discovery of a molecule that targets glioblastoma, a highly deadly form of cancer. The finding, which is published in the January 2009 issue of the European Journal of Nu ...
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.
Antibody targeting of glioblastoma shows promise in preclinical tests
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Cancer researchers at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have successfully tested a small, engineered antibody they say shuts down growth of human glioblastoma tumors in cell and animal studies. ...
Study identifies biomarker that safely monitors tumor response to new brain cancer treatment
Jul 01, 2009 |
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A specific biomarker, a protein released by dying tumor cells, has been identified as an effective tool in an animal model to gauge the response to a novel gene therapy treatment for glioblastoma mulitforme. The finding, ...
First noninvasive technique to accurately predict mutations in human brain tumors
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Donald O'Rourke, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues, were able to accurately predict the specific genetic mutation that caused brain cancer in a group ...
Angiogenesis inhibitor improves brain tumor survival by reducing edema
Mar 30, 2009 |
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The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of edema - the swelling of brain tissue - and not from any direct ...
Doctors identify patients at high risk of C. difficile
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Doctors have developed and validated a clinical prediction rule for recurrent Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection that was simple, reliable and accurate, and can be used to identify high-risk patients most likely t ...
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