The PSA bounce Does it have clinical significance?
...ts, and patients with an increased risk of disease recurrence also bounce more often. This translates into lower PSA control," said Horwitz. "But our analysis also shows that without additional treatment, including hormones, these men live as long as those who don't experience a PSA bounce." "Because this i...Rice engineer wins prestigious Annunzio Award
...scaffolds and to make the grafts more resistant to recurrence of disease. The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation is a federal government agency established to "encourage and support research, study and labor designed to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind." Gover...The Molecular Profiling Institute named US provider of genetic breast cancer test
...nt employs gene expression profiling to assess the recurrence risk in breast cancer patients. Oncologists receive detailed prognostic information on women with primary invasive breast cancer aged 55 years or younger who are lymph node negative with either a positive or negative estrogen receptor status. Taken ...Growth of common skin cancer blocked in gene-switch mice
...C, the discovery of residual tumor cells and tumor recurrence may be particularly important given the current efforts to develop Hh pathway inhibitors as a means of combating human BCCs as well as other cancers. In contrast to other cancer models where inhibition of Hh signaling leads to durable tumor regressi...CMS plan recognizes PET technology for benefit of cancer patients
...ffectiveness of treatment, restaging and suspected recurrence of cancers not previously covered, such as cervical, ovarian, pancreatic and testicular cancers. Previously, only a limited number of indications were covered. CMS worked with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the oncology community, includi...Progress toward a new remedy for chronic urinary tract infections?
...th antibiotics is possible but does not preclude a recurrence of the infection. In addition to this, more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to the antibiotics. For these reasons, scientists have been busy seeking another solution. Prevention is better than cure Julie Bouckaert and her co-researchers, u...Green tea extract shows promise as an anti-cancer agent, UCLA study finds
... trial studying whether green tea extract prevents recurrence - one of the first studies in the country to test ...ional Cancer Institute and designed to prevent the recurrence and progression of smoking-related bladder cancer. In addition to the trial, the program seeks to de...Lung cancer vaccine trial continues at UK's Markey Cancer Center
...he hope of reducing the unacceptably high rates of recurrence and disease progression seen in the treated lung c...nitive medical or surgical therapy and lung cancer recurrence to enhance the immune response to a cancer recurrence." The vaccine in this study uses dendritic cel...Readers of genome decipher signatures of cancer patient outcomes
...was associated with significantly reduced risks of recurrence and death," Wu said. "This joint effect exceeded the effect of either polymorphism by itself." MTHFR includes the genetic information necessary for cells to generate an enzyme essential in the folic acid, or vitamin B9, metabolic pathway. The varian...Gene associated with breast cancer may play major role in prostate cancer recurrence
...th breast cancer also may play a major role in the recurrence of prostate cancer, according to new research from...Lineberger. "We believe that the driving force for recurrence of prostate cancer is the reactivation of the androgen receptor, which normally requires the presenc...The Molecular Profiling Institute, Inc. launches MammaPrint for breast cancer patients
...an't distinguish the patients with a high risk for recurrence from those with low risk with comparable accuracy," said Dr. David Alberts, Director of the Arizona Cancer Center. Currently, one of the most important prognostic indicators for the cancer recurring is the size of the tumor. However, a significant...Japanese women found to have lower recurrence of breast cancer
...t only six women (.67 percent) experienced a local recurrence of their breast cancer in the first six years afte.... This figure is remarkable considering the local recurrence rates for women of all ethnicities with breast cancer published from academic centers all over the w...Concurrent radiation, chemo, followed by surgery lengthens lung cancer patients survival
...in the chemotherapy/radiation/surgery group have a recurrence of their cancer." Participants in the chemotherapy/radiation/surgery group remained cancer-free for a median of 12.8 months compared to 10.5 months among those in the chemotherapy/radiation group. Living cancer-free were 22 percent of patients treat...Other highlights in the June 1 JNCI
...iated with a 39% relative reduction in the risk of recurrence of high-grade colorectal adenomas. Secondary bile ...ent was associated with a 12% reduction in adenoma recurrence compared with placebo (43.9% of the placebo group versus 41.0% of the UDCA group had at least one re...Vaccine targets tumors where they live
...table. One patient remained alive without disease recurrence for 59 months after vaccination without any other therapy. This approach may be useful for altering the tumor environment in order to induce anti-tumor immunity and provides a foundation upon which other vaccine strategies can be contemplated for lo...JCI table of contents July 1, 2005
...table. One patient remained alive without disease recurrence for 59 months after vaccination without any other therapy. This approach may be useful for altering the tumor environment in order to induce anti-tumor immunity and provides a foundation upon which other vaccine strategies can be contemplated for lo...Genes linked to treatment resistance in children with leukemia
...otype was associated with hematological relapse, a recurrence of the cancer in the blood and bone marrow and the most common reason for treatment failure in childhood ALL. This risk was further increased if the child also had a TYMS 3/3 genotype. No genotype was associated with hematological relapse among patie...Runyon award goes to third Vanderbilt-Ingram scientist since 2002
...h head and neck cancers are likely to experience a recurrence and which recurrent tumors will respond to specific chemotherapies. The award also will retire up to $100,000 in medical school debt. "Treatment of head and neck cancers is notoriously difficult because of the many important structures in this area ......dies, and aspirin reduced risk of colorectal polyp recurrence in two randomized trials. There has also been some evidence from laboratory and epidemiological studies that NSAIDs might influence prostate carcinogenesis, although the association is unclear. To determine whether use of NSAIDs is associated with a ...... tumors, raising the prospect of eliminating tumor recurrence following initial treatment and developing cancer therapies that are truly curative. Embryonic stem cells' ability spontaneously to form tumors should not hinder the progress of stem cell research, since these cells will be used only as precursors t...