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Hormone refractory prostate cancer is when the prostate cancer cells continue to grow after an initial period of success with hormonal therapy. Most prostate cancers are hormone dependent and require male sex hormones to grow, usually over time the prostate cancer cells develop the ability to grow in the absence of the male hormones. In [...]
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The top five targeted cancers, according to the latest news are melanoma, breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer. At present there are 600 clinical trials going on which involves 340 immunotherapy drugs in around 200 companies. All working for one mission, that is, the study to attempt the treatment for all cancers. There are around [...]
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As per an international study, doctors can determine the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death with the help of a test that checks the expression of 70 genes related with breast cancer. The studies included as many as 307 patients and were followed for 13.6 years. The patients were categorized in to high- and [...]
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Around 40 New Zealand breast cancer patients are hoped to be taking part in an international drug trial which aims to improve medication used to prevent recurrence of the disease. The trial will compare two new aromatatse inhibitors – treatments which effectively starve breast cancer cells of oestrogen, preventing the disease from recurring in post-treatment [...]
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The addition of further chemotherapy added to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with esophageal cancer can improve survival. When diagnosed with esophageal cancer the patient is usually given chemotherapy to shrink the tumor before surgery, it also may be accompanied by radiation. This gives a better chance that the tumor will be smaller and can be [...]
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Glioblastoma Multiforme is usually only has a survival rate up to one year after diagnosis. This primary brain tumor’s standard treatment is surgery to remove as much as the cancer as possible, radiation and or chemotherapy. Even with the most aggressive forms of treatment the patients do not survive.Researchers are trying to improve survival of [...]
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Novogen Ltd. on Friday said it won clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to go ahead with the final phase of human clinical testing on its lead anti-cancer drug, phenoxodiol. Separately, the company said its revenue for the year ended June 30, 2006, was $13.9 million, up 3.2 percent over [...]
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WOMEN are being urged to avoid so-called natural hormone replacement therapy because of health fears. Some women using the therapy, also known as bio-identical hormones, have suffered elevated hormone levels that could lead to excessive bleeding, increased risk of breast and uterine cancer and blood clots. Dr John Eden, director of the Sydney Menopause Centre [...]
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When considering treatments for cancer, you want to hit it hard and wipe it out. Sometimes, if you don’t get it right the first time, the second try at treatment finds you battling a cancer that has spread. ABC News John McKenzie ran a story Doctors Grapple with Lack of Volunteers that featured lung cancer [...]
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A study was conducted that shows some promise in slowing tumor growth of prostate cancer cells by adding extract from a mushroom called Phellinus linteus to the drug doxorubicin. This drug is better known as Adriamycin. The findings were reported in the British Journal of Cancer and it suggests that a lower dose of chemotherapy [...]
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John Hopkins Medical Institution investigators had a small but informative clinical trial using a pill that contained chemicals found in turmeric, a spice used in curries, and quercetin, an antioxidant in onions. The trial showed that the pill reduced both the size and number of precancerous lesions in the intestinal tract. Curcumin is the chemical [...]
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In the past clinical trials and studies showed that high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplant could improve survival for those diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer. The hopefulness of this procedure curing women has gone off to the sidelines. These days doctors will only perform high-dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant under a clinical [...]
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