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Triple treatment keeps lung cancer from coming back
4 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Lung cancer often returns and the recurring cancer is often resistant to the chemotherapy and other drugs that originally drove it into remission...
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Oncology
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
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Researchers engineer probiotics to detect liver tumours
1 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Engineers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have devised a way to detect liver tumours, by enlisting the help of probiotics...
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Presence of IGFBPs correlates with tumour-promoting effects of MMP9 in breast cancer
29 May 2015 | By Victoria White
A team of researchers has found that the presence of IGFBP-1 interacted with MMP9 to promote breast cancer tumour formation in mouse models...
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Dormant cancer cells can ‘wake up’ after decades
28 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have found genetic evidence that dormant cancer cells can avoid the effects of treatment only to ‘wake up’ many years later...
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Blocking LOX enzyme could prevent breast cancer from spreading
28 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have identified an enzyme, LOX, that possibly holds the key to preventing secondary cancers in breast cancer patients...
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First cancer-promoting oncogenes discovered in choroid plexus carcinoma
21 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have identified three genes that play a pivotal role in choroid plexus carcinoma, a discovery that could lead to more effective treatment...
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Ipsen signs agreement to acquire Octreopharm Sciences
20 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Ipsen signed an agreement to acquire OctreoPharm Sciences, a life sciences company focusing on the development of innovative radioactive labelled compounds...
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Broad Institute receives $10 million from the Gerstner Family Foundation to research cancer drug resistance
18 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard are to receive a $10 million gift from the Gerstner Family Foundation that will expand cancer research...
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Contraceptive and cholesterol-lowering drug combination (BaP) used to treat cancer
15 May 2015 | By Victoria White
The BaP combination of a cholesterol-lowering drug, bezafibrate and a contraceptive steroid could be an effective treatment for a range of cancers.
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Anisina confirmed as effective anti-cancer agent in preclinical studies
14 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Novogen has confirmed that drug candidate, Anisina, is an effective monotherapy against human melanoma in an animal model...
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Significant progress made towards individualised cancer immunotherapy
12 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Mainz-based researchers have made significant advances with regard to the development of individualised cancer immunotherapy strategies...
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ME-344 shows enhanced anti-tumour activity in combination with tyrosine-kinase inhibitor in preclinical studies
6 May 2015 | By Victoria White
MEI Pharma has announced new preclinical data showing mitochondria-specific effects of the Company's investigational drug candidate ME-344 in cancer cells...
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Breast cancer vaccines may work better with silicon microparticles
5 May 2015 | By Victoria White
The effectiveness of cancer vaccines could be dramatically boosted by first loading the cancer antigens into silicon microparticles...
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New therapeutic target for colorectal cancer has been identified
28 April 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers at the Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM) have identified a new way of treating colorectal cancer...
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arGEN-X announces publication on therapeutic potential of ARGX-115 in cancer immunotherapy
24 April 2015 | By Victoria White
arGEN-X and de Duve Institute/UCL/WELBIO have announced the publication of new data showing that ARGX-115 blocks the activity of GARP...
