Scientists Pioneer New Treatment for Prostate Cancer
www.sunnybrook.ca Sept 15, 2008 – Scientists at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) are developing and commercializing a promising novel therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer that may offer patients a faster and more precise treatment than existing clinical alternatives, with fewer side effects. More at Sunnybrook.ca
Categories: Breast Cancer Treatment Tags: cancer, Pioneer, prostate, Scientists, Treatment
Patients, scientists at odds over breast cancer drug
Patients, scientists at odds over breast cancer drug
Monday morning, Patricia Howard, 66, was at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, undergoing scans that led doctors to declare her cancer-free — five years after her advanced breast cancer was diagnosed.
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Categories: Breast Cancer Treatment Tags: breast, cancer, drug, Odds, Over, Patients, Scientists
Scientists discover new way breast cancer cells that dodge immune system, promote tumor growth
Scientists discover new way breast cancer cells that dodge immune system, promote tumor growth
Scientists discovered a new way breast cancer cells dodge the immune system and promote tumor growth, providing a fresh treatment target in the fight against the disease. While comparable mechanisms to avoid the immune system have been identified in mice with breast and other cancers, the study tested human breast tumor cells, putting researchers closer to understanding how the disease …
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Categories: Breast Cancer Treatment Tags: breast, cancer, Cells, Discover, dodge, Growth, immune, promote, Scientists, system, tumor
Scientists discover new signaling pathway to reduce tumour growth in glioblastoma multiforme
Scientists discover new signaling pathway to reduce tumour growth in glioblastoma multiforme
Malignant gliomas are the most common subtype of primary brain tumor – and one of the deadliest. Even as doctors make steady progress treating other types of solid tumor cancers, from breast to prostate, the most aggressive form of malignant glioma, called a glioblastoma multiforme or GBM, has steadfastly defied advances in neurosurgery, radiation therapy and various conventional or novel drugs …
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Categories: Breast Cancer Radiation Tags: Discover, glioblastoma, Growth, multiforme, pathway, Reduce, Scientists, signaling, tumour
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