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Glitches in DNA repair genes predict prognosis in pancreatic cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Variations in mismatch repair genes can help predict treatment response and prognosis in patients with pancreatic cancer, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center presented today in ...


Angiogenesis inhibitor improves brain tumor survival by reducing edema

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created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


CT imaging taken post avastin may predict survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using routine computed tomography (CT) imaging to analyze form and structural changes to colorectal liver metastasis after bevacizumab and chemotherapy may predict overall survival, according to research from The University ...





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Mathematical Model Predicts Factors Driving Tumor Invasion

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tumors are complex collections of cells whose behavior has proven difficult to understand, let alone predict. As a result, oncologists are often surprised by how a particular patient responds to a given course of therapy.


PET imaging response a prognostic factor after thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University ...


Cancer cells are protected by our own immune system

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created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- During the very first few days of development of a cancer, our immune system recognizes cancer cells not as abnormal cells requiring eradication but as cells of the body that need to be protected. This result ...


Study identifies biomarker that safely monitors tumor response to new brain cancer treatment

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

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created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Prostate Tumors Can Change the Function of Immune Cells in Mice

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created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that prostate tumors in mice can cause immune cells known as CD8+ T cells to change their function from cells that have antitumor activity to cells that suppress immune responses. ...


New imaging analysis predicts brain tumor survival

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created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As early as one week after beginning treatment for brain tumors, a new imaging analysis method was able to predict which patients would live longer, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center ...


Predicting patient response to gleevec in gastrointestinal stromal tumors

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created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center uncovered a genetic pattern that may help predict how gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) patients respond to the targeted therapy imatinib mesylate (Gleevec). Moreover, their findings ...


Trojan horse for ovarian cancer -- nanoparticles turn immune system soldiers against tumor cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.


Forecasting cancer recurrence

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created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two people with the same kind of cancer who receive the exact same treatment may nevertheless have different chances of their tumors coming back years later. Now a team of scientists has developed a computer model that predicts ...



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