Medical scientists to begin clinical trials of promising cancer therapy
...possible, the physician said. Mice in which human lymphoma tumors were grown fared significantly better when ...compounds, Orlowski said. In experiments involving lymphoma cells growing in laboratory glassware, he and colleagues also found that combining the new chemicals...Scientists find protein in Epstein-Barr virus causes B cell lymphoma in laboratory mice
... such malignancies asBurkett's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and nose and throat cancer. It isespecially hazardous to AIDS patients and other patients whose immune systemshave weakened. "We have shown for the first time that Epstein-Barr virus clearly cancause cancer," said Dr. Nancy Raab-Traub, profes...UCSF researchers report new risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
... associated with an increased risk ofnon-Hodgkin's lymphoma include a history of splenectomy (5-fold increase)...s associated with a decreased risk ofnon-Hodgkin's lymphoma include allergy to plants (40 percent reduction in risk),bee and wasp stings (26 percent reduction),...UI Study Yields Encouraging Results For New Breast Cancer Treatment
...kemia, chronicmyelogenous leukemia, neuroblastoma, lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome. The five studies presented at the ASCO meeting were all randomized, controlled,phase III clinical trials, which directly compared one cancer treatment toanother -- in this case, high-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow tr...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...nts with advanced,treatment-resistant non-Hodgkins lymphoma who had no closely matched donoravailable. All patients were considered terminally ill at the time of thetransplant and had no other treatment options. In two patients the transplants were successful, both producing mixed chimerism- shown by the p......atients in the study had breast cancer; others had lymphoma orrelated cancers. All patients received G-CSF, and some received TPO as well. Ofthe group receiving both drugs, 94 percent achieved the minimum number of stemcells needed to make transplantation an option. In contrast, 75 percent ofthose patients ...New approach supercharges immunotherapy
...ity -- involved patients withadvanced or recurrent lymphoma who had not responded to prior chemotherapy.Although patients in phase-1 studies like this rarely have a lasting recovery,several of those enrolled in this trial have experienced noteworthy anti-tumoreffects. "When you consider that none of these pat...Immunosuppressive Treatment Is Important For Sufferers Of Rheumatoid Arthritis
(Disease and risk of lymphoma in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: nested case... with rheumatoid arthritis, of whom 42 developed a lymphoma (a cancer in which cells of lymphoid tissue, found mainly in the lymph nodes and spleen, multiply un......ies-increased risk for infections or for a form of lymphoma associated with these drugs-are excessive. Tacrolimus, however, reversed rejection in 75 percent of patients with repeated or uncontrollable rejection. It halted kidney damage in another 11 percent. Only 11 percent of patients given tacrolimus experi...