New treatment options for some difficult cancers improve survival and quality of life
...from the colon, rectum, stomach as well as well as mesothelioma of the abdominal cavity. Peritoneal cancer -- cancer of the lining of the abdominal wall -- is a very common cause of death in patients with cancers in the abdomen. Surgery alone has proven to have limited effectiveness, as has radiation therapy and...Zengen's new study reviews novel approach to control inflammation using melanocortin receptors
...omimetics might provide a novel strategy to reduce mesothelioma cell proliferation by taking advantage of an endogenous inhibitory circuit based on alpha-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone (a-MSH), and its receptor MC1R....Early promise of blood marker to detect mesothelioma
...sess blood concentrations of proteins expressed by mesothelioma cells (soluble mesothelin-related proteins [SMR])....level of specificity: 37 (84%) of 44 patients with mesothelioma had raised concentrations of SMR compared with three (2%) of 160 patients with other cancers or othe...Beijing conference to address lung cancer crisis in China
...tists focus on genomic analysis of lung cancer and mesothelioma and application of gene therapy and oncolytic viral gene therapy for these malignancies. UCSF is one of 30 centers in a National Cancer Institute (NCI) study launched last month to determine if screening people with either CT scan or chest x-ray befo...Molecularly targeted drug slows tumor growth in patients
...rian, pancreatic, and lung cancers, as well as for mesothelioma and several types of leukemia....Penn Researchers Initiate Ground-Breaking New Trials To Treat
... to treat locally advanced cases oflung cancer and mesothelioma for patients who are generallyconsidered untreatab...ation of patients with extensive lungcancer and/or mesothelioma -- cancer of the lining of the lung --who will not benefit from surgical or other conventionaltreatm...