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• in Technorati Women
  FDA Rescinds Approval of Avastin for Breast Cancer Treatment
  The Food and Drug Administration has revoked its approval of the drug Avastin the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
  by jenna3967 / on Nov 18, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Novartis Drugs--The One-Two Punch Aimed at Helping Women with Advanced Breast Cancer
  A combination of two cancer drugs suggests slower disease progression in women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer.
  by jenna3967 / on Sep 26, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oncology”

 

• Research Scientists Illuminate Cancer Cells Survival Strategy During Dangerous Dissemination

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has discovered key elements of a strategy commonly used by tumor cells to survive when they spread to distant organs. The finding could lead to drugs that could inhibit this metastasis in patients with tumors. A cell that breaks away from the primary tumor and ...
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• Immunological Mechanisms Of Oncolytic Adenoviral Therapy

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Cancer is one of the most common causes of death in humans. The conventional cancer therapies include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and targeting therapies, which are intended to directly destroy and eliminate tumor cells. These treatments often fail, resulting in tumor metastasis and recurrence. Therefore, ...
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• Major Challenge Of Drug Delivery Addressed By Researchers Innovation

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  A new physical form of proteins developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin could drastically improve treatments for cancer and other diseases, as well as overcome some of the largest challenges in therapeutics: delivering drugs to patients safely, easily and more effectively...
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• New Vaccine Approach Discovered For The Treatment Of Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Scientists in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have developed a new vaccine to treat cancer at the pre-clinical level. The research team led by Professor Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College Dublin discovered a new approach for treating the disease based on manipulating the immune ...
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• Mutations Tied To Aggressive Childhood Brain Tumors Revealed By Cancer Sequencing Initiative

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Researchers studying a rare, lethal childhood tumor of the brainstem discovered that nearly 80 percent of the tumors have mutations in genes not previously tied to cancer. Early evidence suggests the alterations play a unique role in other aggressive pediatric brain tumors as well. The findings from the St. Jude ...
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• Stress-Induced Genomic Instability Facilitates Rapid Cellular Adaption In Yeast

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Cells trying to keep pace with constantly changing environmental conditions need to strike a fine balance between maintaining their genomic integrity and allowing enough genetic flexibility to adapt to inhospitable conditions. In their latest study, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research were able ...
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• Head And Neck Cancer Cells Destroyed By Grape Seed Extract, But Healthy Cells Are Unharmed

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Nearly 12,000 people will die of head and neck cancer in the United States this year and worldwide cases will exceed half a million. A study published in the journal Carcinogenesisshows that in both cell lines and mouse models, grape seed extract (GSE) kills head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells, while leaving ...
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• New technique diagnoses brain cancers non-invasively

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Washington, Jan 29 (IANS) A new technique diagnoses brain tumours non-invasively, eliminating the need for surgery in patients whose tumours are located in areas too dangerous for biopsy.The new magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) technique provides a definitive diagnosis of cancer, based on imaging a protein tied ...
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• Head And Neck Cancer Recurrences Detected Earlier By Routine Follow-Up Scans

  
  Health News and Views — Authority: 140
  Routine use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans in head and neck cancer patient follow-up can detect local recurrences before they become clinically apparent and may improve the outcome of subsequent salvage therapy, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck ...
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• Cancer Patients Treatment, Diagnosis Wait Time Reduced By Danish Health Care Fast Track Program

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  In Denmark, implementing a national fast track system for cancer patients reduced the waiting time between a patients initial meeting with a health care provider and their first treatment by four weeks when comparing 2010 to 2002, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, ...
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• IMRT Improves Head And Neck Cancer Patients Long-Term Quality Of Life

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Patients treated with IMRT for head and neck cancer report an increasingly better quality of life post-treatment when compared to patients receiving other forms of radiation therapy, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM. ...
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• Side Effect Severity Predicted In Head And Neck Cancer Patients By Thermal Imaging To Detect Oral Temperature Changes

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Slight temperature increases of the oral mucus membranes early in a head and neck cancer patients chemotherapy and radiation therapy (chemoradiotherapy) treatment is a predictor of severe mucositis later in treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by ...
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• Long-Term Positive Results From Radiation Plus Chemotherapy For Head And Neck Cancer Patients

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  A select subgroup of advanced head and neck cancer patients treated with radiation therapy plus the chemotherapy drug cisplatin had more positive outcomes than patients treated with radiation therapy alone and continued to show positive results 10 years post-treatment, according to a study presented at the ...
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• Erlotinib Dose-Adjusted For Smoking Status Effective As First Treatment For Head And Neck Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Head and neck cancers respond well to the anti-cancer drug erlotinib when it is administered before surgery and a stronger dose is given to patients who smoke, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM. Erlotinib is an oral ...
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• Takeda’s Orteronel (TAK-700) Enters Phase III Clinical Trials For Prostate Cancer

  
  AsianScientist.com | Online News and Information For The Asian Student, Post-Doc and Research Community — Authority: 495
  AsianScientist (Jan. 27, 2012) – Takeda Bio Development Center Limited, a subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, has initiated enrollment of patients in Japan for the two ongoing global Phase III clinical trials for the anti-prostate cancer investigational agent, orteronel (TAK-700). Orteronel, ...
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• OncoGenex Stays in Prostate Cancer Fray, After J&J, Medivation

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 639
  Luke Timmerman Prostate cancer was once a backwater for innovation, but suddenly it’s become one of the most competitive battlegrounds in all of biotech. And one of the darkhorses in this race, Bothell, WA and Vancouver, BC-based OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, is getting ready to show next week whether it has another ...
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• Use EHRs to avoid unnecessary care

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 133
  Source: Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR Content: “Electronic health records can do more than identify which patients should be receiving preventive and other additional services. They can also help providers pinpoint who shouldn’t receive care.That’s the upshot of a recent study published in the Journal of the ...
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• Use of electronic health record data to evaluate overuse of cervical cancer screening

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 133
  Source: Mathias JS et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012 Content: BackgroundNational organizations historically focused on increasing use of effective services are now attempting to identify and discourage use of low-value services. Electronic health records (EHRs) could be used to measure use of low-value services, but ...
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• improved quality of life at reduced costs

  
  Siemens India Blog — Authority: 113
  is that possible? in today’s scenario where healthcare costs are constantly soaring, providing quality healthcare that also in an affordable rate seems next to impossible. the greatest challenge that healthcare institutions are facing today is aligning strategy, processes and technologies for the benefit of their ...
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• Mathematically Modeling Tumor-Immune Interactions To Aid Cancer Therapy

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 685
  Cancer is one of the five leading causes of death. And yet, despite decades of research, there is no standardized first-line treatment for most cancers. In addition, disappointing results from predominant second-line treatments like chemotherapy have established the need for alternative methods. Mathematical modeling ...
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