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** BREAST CANCER News **
Electronic Brachytherapy Accurately Delivers Non-Radioactive Therapy Directly To Breast And Endocavitary Cancer Sites
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116394.php
The ability of Electronic Brachytherapy to accurately and consistently deliver localized, non-radioactive radiation treatment directly to cancer sites is the focus of a symposium and multiple research papers accepted for presentation at the 50th American Association of Physicists in Medicine Meeting, July 27 - 31 in Houston.
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** CANCER / ONCOLOGY News **
New Study Shows Drug Combats Previously Untreatable Prostate Cancers
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116491.php
New, groundbreaking research reveals a drug, discovered at The Institute of Cancer Research, could treat up to 80 per cent of patients with aggressive and previously drug resistant prostate cancer, according to a study published in the<i> Journal of Clinical Oncology </i>.
Clues To Preventing And Treating Cancer Spread Provided By Study
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116466.php
Isn't it odd that cancer cells from one organ, such as the skin, can travel and take root in a totally different organ, like the lung?What's more, why is it that certain cancers prefer to spread, or metastasize, to certain places? Prostate cancer usually moves to bone; colon cancer, to the liver.
Dividing Cells And Micromanagement
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116460.php
Micromanagers may generate resentment in an office setting, but they get results in your body. New data indicate that a dividing cell takes micromanagement to the extreme, tagging more than 14,000 different sites on its proteins with phosphate, a molecule that typically serves as a signal for a variety of biological processes.
A New Biomarker For Early Cancer Detection? Research Reveals That 'Microrna' May Fit The Bill
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116404.php
Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have discovered that microRNAs molecular workhorses that regulate gene expression are released by cancer cells and circulate in the blood, which gives them the potential to become a new class of biomarkers to detect cancer at its earliest stages.
Ethanol Co-products Provide Means To Deliver Cancer Drugs
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116403.php
The key to a better drug delivery method for cancer patients may be growing all across the Midwest, South Dakota State University research suggests.Assistant Professor Omathanu Perumal and his team in SDSU's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences have been working with submicroscopic particles to deliver medications using the corn protein, zein.
Team Leads Research Into Robotic Surgery For Kidney Cancer
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116400.php
Clinical research at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is helping bring the advantages of robotic surgery, including reduced pain and quicker recovery, to kidney cancer patients.
U.S. FDA Clears Ge Healthcare's New Additions To PET/CT Line, Extending Ge's Leadership In Cancer Detection, Management And Research
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116384.php
GE Healthcare announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted clearance for the company's newest model of Positron Emission Tomography/ Computed Tomography (PET/CT) scanner. This new addition to GE's Discovery family of scanners continues GE's commitment to help enable the earlier detection and monitoring of disease with advanced molecular imaging technology, in both hardware and software.
American Chemical Society National Meeting Aug. 17-21 Offers Bounty Of News And Features
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116376.php
Thousands of scientists from around the world will gather here August 17-21 to report new discoveries in medicine, energy, environment, food science, and other fields that involve chemistry during the 236th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Drugs Commonly Used For Erectile Dysfunction Allowed More Chemotherapy To Reach Brain Tumors In Laboratory Animal Study
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116363.php
In a study using laboratory animals, researchers found that medications commonly prescribed for erectile dysfunction opened a mechanism called the blood-brain tumor barrier and increased delivery of cancer-fighting drugs to malignant brain tumors.
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** CERVICAL CANCER / HPV VACCINE News **
Nventa Announces Final Data From HspE7 Phase 1 Cervical Dysplasia Trial
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116395.php
Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation (TSX: NVN) announced that it has completed analysis of immunological data from all four cohorts of its Phase 1 clinical trial for HspE7, its lead product candidate.
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** COLORECTAL CANCER News **
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** LUNG CANCER News **
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** LYMPHOMA / LEUKEMIA News **
Polyphenon Pharma Receives Orphan Drug Designation For Its Botanical Drug, Polyphenon E, For The Treatment Of CLL
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116391.php
Polyphenon Pharma, an emerging research-based pharmaceutical company, announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to its botanical drug, Polyphenon E(R), for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
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** PROSTATE / PROSTATE CANCER News **
New Study Shows Drug Combats Previously Untreatable Prostate Cancers
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116491.php
New, groundbreaking research reveals a drug, discovered at The Institute of Cancer Research, could treat up to 80 per cent of patients with aggressive and previously drug resistant prostate cancer, according to a study published in the<i> Journal of Clinical Oncology </i>.
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