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Bone-building Drug Zometa Fights Breast Cancer Spread, Doctors Say
POSTED: June 3, 2008CHICAGO -- A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease. It is the first large study to affirm wider anti-cancer hopes for Zometa and other bone-building drugs called bisphosphonates. Zometa, made...
New Nexavar Data Presented In Multiple Tumor Types At 44th American Society Of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
POSTED: June 3, 2008WAYNE, N.J. and EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the presentation of new clinical data from the early clinical trials in the development program for Nexavar(R) (sorafenib) tablets in multiple tumor types including lung, thyroid, gastric and ovarian cancers. Nexavar is curre...
Genetic Testing Opens Up A Brave New World Of Options: Personalized Medical Treatment
POSTED: June 3, 2008A test for a mutated gene led to the early detection of breast cancer when it resurfaced for Carole Warren -- 18 years after her first bout with the disease. The Camarillo woman was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989. After undergoing a lumpectomy and radiation treatment, she saw an oncologist regularly a couple times a year. In 2006, he...
Immunomedics Reports Clinical Results In Lymphoma And Metastatic Colorectal Cancer With Radioimmunotherapy (RAIT)
POSTED: June 3, 2008CHICAGO -- Immunomedics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing monoclonal antibodies to treat cancer and other serious diseases, today announced that epratuzumab labeled with the potent radioisotope, yttrium-90 (Y-90), produced significant clinical results when given in small fractionated doses repeatedly to patients with non-H...
Study Suggests Survival Benefit From Radioactive Microsphere Therapy In Patients With Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases Who Have Failed Chemotherapy
POSTED: June 3, 2008CHICAGO -- Radioactive microspheres appear to be a safe and effective treatment for patients with colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver and who have failed available chemotherapy options, according to the results of a prospective clinical study presented today at the 44th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference.(1) The m...
MammoSite 5-day Targeted Radiation Therapy
POSTED: June 3, 2008"Early detection is the best protection." It's been the mantra of breast cancer prevention messages for years. In fact the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that when breast cancer is discovered at an early, localized stage and treated, there is a 98 percent five-year survival rate. That's important because, according to the Ameri...
New Genetic Test Aims To Improve Breast Cancer Treatment
POSTED: June 3, 2008Dr. Matthew Ellis stands at the dawn of personalized medicine, his work heralding a day when breast cancer patients will receive just the right treatment for their specific type of disease. Ellis, a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine and co-founder of St. Louis-based University Genomics Inc., is developing genetic tests for analyz...
When Should a Patient Fire Their Doctor?
POSTED: March 24, 2008Oakton, VA -– Today's consumers are demanding; expecting choice, variety, quality of product and unequalled service. If a waiter does a poor job, it is rewarded with a small tip. Unprofessional day care providers are dismissed for a child's safety. So why is it that when it comes to healthcare – easily one of the most important things in life - patien...
MoleSafe Can Help Detect Early Melanoma
POSTED: February 4, 2008Developed in the world’s melanoma capitals of Australia and New Zealand, MoleSafe facilities can help to detect early skin cancer, specifically melanoma. With increased diagnostic accuracy, associated with dermoscopy and MoleSafe’s expert dermoscopists, MoleSafe is able to identify new or suspicious lesions at an earlier state by monitoring and compari...
Radiation Therapy Facts
POSTED: July 23, 2001Radiation therapy, also called radiotherapy, is the treatment of cancer and other diseases with ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation deposits energy that injures or destroys cells in the area being treated (the "target tissue") by damaging their genetic material, making it impossible for these cells to continue to grow. Although radiation damages both...
