Exercise benefits patients being treated for early stage breast cancer
...uthor, Roanne Segal, M.D., medical director of the oncology rehabilitation program at Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre. Researchers were surprised that women who exercised on their own had better aerobic results than women who participated in a group supervised exercise program. Segal says the difference could ......investigator Heinz-Josef Lenz, M.D. "Through its oncology franchise, Millennium is committed to developing s...d antibody) and predictive programs. Inflammation, oncology and metabolic disease comprise Millennium's three key research and development franchise areas. In ...Chance discovery of 'immortal skin' holds medical promise
... of the initial discovery. Her husband, UW-Madison oncology professor Michael Hoffmann, is director of business development and is researching cancer-related applications....Hopkins researchers develop method to predict response to chemotherapy
...says James G. Herman, M.D., assistant professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins and principal investigator of the study. "The most exciting aspect of this research is that we can begin applying it to therapy right away," says Manel Esteller, M.D., Ph.D., research fellow at the Oncology Center and first author...Tumor cells made more sensitive to radiation by blocking a key cellular molecule
...ation," said Joel E. Tepper, MD, head of radiation oncology at UNC-CH School of Medicine and a member of UNC L...nhibited. Suzanne M. Russo, MD, a former radiation oncology resident at UNC, and now a radiation oncologist at Wake Forest University led the study. Collaborato...Studies at UNC plumb tumor resistance to treatment
...nt," said Mahesh Varia, MD, professor of radiation oncology at UNC-CH. "More recently we have learned that some hypoxic tumors are resistant to chemotherapy, and that patients treated surgically who have hypoxic tumors also do less well than patients with normally oxygenated tumors." But of the methods avai...... seminars on optical cancer diagnostics, molecular oncology and other advances in the detection and treatment of cancer, Bio-MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems), chromosome region-specific expressed gene in solution and applications in telemedicine. The IPC is a joint effort between UC Davis and Lawrenc...UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center program triumphs
...sor of medicine, whom Shuman calls one of the best oncology clinical researchers in the world. Allison has developed an antibody that activates the immune response in mice. The antibody appears to have a major impact on thwarting prostate cancer in a transgenic animal model. Small has now begun a phase I clin...Cancer conference unveils new alternative therapies, research
...tegrate complementary and alternative therapies in oncology practices. The conference also launches Comprehensive Cancer Care, a new book by James S. Gordon, M.D., Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)........, professor of neurological surgery and radiation oncology at the University of Pittsburgh department of neurological surgery, reported today that some patients who underwent neuronal transplantation following stroke showed improvement in motor function. His study, presented at the annual meeting of th...Hopkins reports new technology to unmask hidden gene mutations
..." explains Kenneth W. Kinzler, Ph.D., professor of oncology and co-director of the study. Researchers uncovered masked mutant genes by fusing human cells with specially designed mouse cells to create mouse-human cell lines. Each cell line contained a copy of the gene they wanted to study. Then, they looke...Novel anti-cancer agent shows minimal side effects with preliminary evidence of tumor shrinkage
...D., senior investigator and associate professor of oncology at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France. "If these preliminary results are confirmed in future observations, this may represent a new and safer treatment for cancer patients." The results were presented by Jerome Alexandre, a physician-......oodtumors. The effort will be led by U-M pediatric oncology professor Samir Hanash, M.D.,Ph.D., and funded by two grants from the National Cancer Institute. The funding will allow a U-M team and their U.S. and international partners -including medical, computer, chemistry and information specialists - to deve......rner, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor ofradiation oncology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and a memberof Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center, who led the work, women and physicians maywant to rethink their treatment options. "These findings suggest that a woman who has a mutation in BRCA......romneuroendocrinology and neurosurgery to surgical oncology and immunology. Herwork has been published in a variety of scientific journals and she has beeninvited to present findings at meetings sponsored by such organizations as theSociety for Neuroscience, the American Thoracic Society of the American LungA...Enzyme-based method to isolate stem cells from umbilical cord blood shows promise
... Ludeman of the division of hematology and medical oncology inthe department of medicine at Duke University Medical Center.......m andWomen's Hospital in Boston before starting an oncology fellowship at theHutchinson Center in 1991. He began his career at the Hutchinson Center as a postdoctoral fellow inoncology in a laboratory in the Center's Basic Sciences Division as part of theMolecular Medicine Training Program. His interest in ce...Blocking VEGF can enhance radiation therapy
...hselbaum, M.D.,professor and chairman of radiation oncology at the University of Chicago anddirector of the study. "But we have long been certain," he added, "that radiation therapy works quitewell for eradicating relatively small human tumors. Now we have good reasons tobelieve that combining radiation with ...Hopkins study shows new target for boosting the immune system to improve cancer vaccines
...," says Hyam Levitsky,M.D., associate professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins and senior author. "Onereason that immunotherapy of cancer frequently doesn't work is that it's veryhard to keep the immune system responsive to tumors as they grow," explainsLevitsky. Researchers suspect that APC cells ...