New investigational compound targets pancreatic cancer cells
New investigational compound targets pancreatic cancer cells
A new investigational drug designed to penetrate and attack pancreatic cancer cells has been administered to a patient for the first time ever at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare.
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Categories: Breast Cancer Treatment Tags: cancer, Cells, compound, Investigational, pancreatic, Targets
Cellceutix Completes All Three Animal Safety Pharmacology Studies for Its Cancer Compound Required by FDA Prior to …
Cellceutix Completes All Three Animal Safety Pharmacology Studies for Its Cancer Compound Required by FDA Prior to …
BEVERLY, MA–(Marketwire – 07/07/10) – Cellceutix Corporation (OTC.BB: CTIX – News ) today announced that it has completed all three animal safety pharmacology studies for its cancer compound, Kevetrin, that are required by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration prior to filing an IND. These studies involve assessments of the impact of the administration of a compound on the respiratory …
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Categories: Breast Cancer Risks Tags: animal, cancer, Cellceutix, Completes, compound, Pharmacology, prior, required, Safety, Studies, three
Compound Found to Kill Lymphoma Cells Surfaced in Computer Model
Compound Found to Kill Lymphoma Cells Surfaced in Computer Model
A international team of scientists discovered that a small compound, identified by chemists at the UMB School of Pharmacists, can kill cancer cells of an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Categories: Breast Cancer Research Tags: Cells, compound, Computer, Found, Kill, Lymphoma, model, Surfaced
Pancreatic Cancers: Chemotherapy Plus Synthetic Compound Provides Potent Anti-Tumor Effect
Pancreatic Cancers: Chemotherapy Plus Synthetic Compound Provides Potent Anti-Tumor Effect
Human pancreatic cancer cells dramatically regress when treated with chemotherapy in combination with a synthetic compound that mimics the action of a naturally occurring “death-promoting” protein found in cells, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The research, conducted in mice, appears in today’s issue of Cancer Research and could lead to more effective therapies for …
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Categories: Breast Cancer Research Tags: AntiTumor, cancers, Chemotherapy, compound, effect, pancreatic, Plus, Potent, Provides, Synthetic
Biologist have isolated a compound from Pacific yew trees that physicians have been able to use…?
… as an effective treatment for ovarian and breast tumors. Biologist have also isolated a compound from the Madagascar periwinkle that is effective against childhood leukemias, which are forms of cancer. In both cases, the molecules act by binding to the proteins of the spindle and interfering with the spindle’s separation of chromosomes in mitosis. Why would these compounds be more harmful for cancer cells than normal cells?