Breast Cancer Treatment

Celsion receives NIH SBIR grant to develop heat sensitive liposomal technology for cancer treatment

Celsion receives NIH SBIR grant to develop heat sensitive liposomal technology for cancer treatment
Celsion Corporation, a biotechnology drug development company, announced today that it has been awarded a competitive Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support the proposal, “New Thermal Sensitive Carboplatin Liposomes for Cancer”.

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Agensys, an Affiliate of Astellas, Announces Initiation of Phase I Clinical Trial of AGS-16M8F for Renal Cancer

Agensys, an Affiliate of Astellas, Announces Initiation of Phase I Clinical Trial of AGS-16M8F for Renal Cancer
Agensys, Inc., an affiliate of Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma Inc., today announced that they have initiated a Phase I clinical trial of AGS-16M8F an antibody-drug conjugate that is being developed for the treatment of metastatic renal cancer.

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FDA denies accelerated approval for ImmunoGen, Genentech potential breast cancer treatment

FDA denies accelerated approval for ImmunoGen, Genentech potential breast cancer treatment
WALTHAM, Mass. – Federal regulators have ruled that a potential breast cancer treatment from ImmunoGen failed to meet the standard for accelerated approval, the company said Friday.

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Breast Cancer Survivor Sheryl Crow and the Pink Lotus Breast Center Announce Opening of the Sheryl Crow Imaging Center

Breast Cancer Survivor Sheryl Crow and the Pink Lotus Breast Center Announce Opening of the Sheryl Crow Imaging Center
Breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow and the Pink Lotus Breast Center today announced the grand opening of the Sheryl Crow Imaging Center, a state of the art breast imaging center featuring the latest advancements in digital screening and diagnostic imaging technologies.

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Purification Of Protein Made By Breast Cancer Gene

Purification Of Protein Made By Breast Cancer Gene
A key step in understanding the origins of familial breast cancer has been made by two teams of scientists at the University of California, Davis. The researchers have purified, for the first time, the protein produced by the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2 and used it to study the oncogene’s role in DNA repair. The results were published onlin in the journals Nature, and Nature …

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Pfizer:Cancer Pill Sutent Fails Endpoint In Lung-Cancer Trial

Pfizer:Cancer Pill Sutent Fails Endpoint In Lung-Cancer Trial
Pfizer:Cancer Pill Sutent Fails Endpoint In Lung-Cancer Trial

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Breast Cancer Treatment for Uninsured – 3

Gateway to Hope is a registered 501(c)(3) organization that arranges medical and surgical care at no cost for individuals who have been diagnosed with breast cancer but cannot afford treatment because they are underinsured or uninsured. Without Gateway to Hope these individuals would have faced insurmountable odds. The organization secures doctors, hospitals and professional specialists to donate their time, care and services. There is no cost to patients and families served by Gateway to Hope. For more information on Gateway to Hope, please visit www.gthstl.org

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Breast Cancer: Alternative treatment without surgery

vci.org Testimony of a breast cancer survivor patient from Valley Cancer Institute. Hyperthermia can be compared with an artificial fever that attacks cancer cells. The combination of both, hyperthermia and low-dose radiation makes this therapy the most efficient cancer treatment available today.