A phase III trial of 1,298 colorectal cancer patients has found that a combination of the drugs cetuximab (Erbitux) and irinotecan showed a significant improvement in progression-free survival over just irinotecan alone, according to an international team of researchers.
Research presented today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research confirmed that there is now an effective treatment option for colorectal cancer patients for whom all other treatment options have been exhausted — cetuximab.
Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered how a defect in a single master gene disrupts the process by which several genes interact to create myelin, a fatty coating that covers nerve cells and increases the speed and reliability of their electrical signals
A simple oral rinse could detect the early development of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, according to researchers at the University of Miami?s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
In preliminary findings, researchers have identified differences in the expression of two genes in normal breast tissue from African American and white women that could predispose the former to develop more aggressive tumors and poorer prognoses.
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers have found that chaetocin, a by-product of a common wood mold, has promise as a new anti-myeloma agent. Results of their study, being presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, show the by-product to be more effective than currently used therapies at killing multiple myeloma cells.
The New Zealand Ministry of Health notes the increase in forensic mental health services provision across the country, as shown in the Census of Forensic Mental Health Services, carried out in 2005.
Studies of human tumor cells implanted in mice have shown that the abnormal activation of four genes drives the spread of breast cancer to the lungs.
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center have found that nitric oxide plays an important role in tumor cell survival following treatment with radiation therapy.
With obesity, diabetes and other diet-related maladies on the rise in the United States, are healthy choices available when eating out? In an interview study of top executives at major U.S. restaurant chains, researchers found that the message is mixed.