Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...land Hospital. "The new treatment can be used to shrink localized tumors," Safran said."The idea is to get an effective treatment for these local cancers beforesurgery is attempted. Once the tumors shrink, they can be removed surgically." In previous research, the Brown University Oncology Group had deve...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...t kill a tumor immediately, but rather cause it to shrink over time. Theendpoint of such treatment is harder to judge, and we need new biochemical tests that tell us if the drug has successfully disrupted the intended pathway in the cancer cell, while not interfering with similar pathways in healthy cells. ...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
...ndent tumors, theresearchers induced the tumors to shrink by cutting off their supply ofhormones. The researchers found that pore size varied among the six tumor types -- forexample, mouse breast tumors had much bigger openings than mouse livercancers -- and among sites within the same tumor. Solid tumors o...Drug Prevents Hearing Loss Caused By Brain Tumor Therapy
...n. Using a sugar solution to temporarily shrink the barrier cells, therebycreating spaces between them, Neuwelt and his colleagues literally "opened thegate" for drugs such as carboplatin to enter the brain. They subsequently found that carboplatin was one of the most effectivetherapies fo...Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level
...nvestigating whether ourapproach may actually help shrink cancer lesions that have spread to the bone,in addition to relieving the pain they cause," Srivastava said. "And, we'repursuing preliminary research on its use in treating primary bone cancer andrheumatoid arthritis." A New Option for Bone Cancer P...UW-Madison Center One Of Two Sites Nationwide Selected For Clinical Trial Of Cancer Drug
...rowth of already existing tumorsand caused some to shrink to microscopic lesions. When researchers examinedthose tiny lesions, they found the endostatin had blocked the growth of bloodvessels that nourished the tumors. Researchers also conducted tests in which mice were given endostatin until theirtumors s...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...an a year. Three patients had some of their tumors shrink and othertumors -- which lacked the markers targeted by the vaccine -- continue to grow. Despite a life expectancy of three-to-nine months when enrolled, patients with acomplete or partial response are alive more than 15 months later. "Although only ...Aspirin's role in colon cancer prevention focus of $5 million grant
...have demonstrated in animals that colon tumorswill shrink dramatically if treated with drugs that inhibit COX2 activity. Other researchers in the chemoprevention program are looking at otherpieces of the NSAIDS-COX2-colon cancer puzzle. Better understanding of theprecise role of COX2 and related...New radiation treatment for large tumors
... In manycases, the treatment eased pain or helped shrink the tumor so that surgery couldbe performed. Also, even with the high doses of radiation used with the technique, feweffects of radiation, such as burns, are apparent. The response in more than 70 patients treated with GRID therapy be......ntly found that mammillary bodies in the brain may shrink ascognition and memory decrease. "These findings are significant because they point toward the importance ofnutritional factors in the condition of the brain," said Edith V. Sullivan,Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Me...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...muscle. As people age, their thymus glands shrink and become hard to locate nearthe heart, Markert said. That's because T cells already educated by the glandare intended to provide life-long immunity by constantly dividing. But it may bepossible to adapt this transplant technique to adults whose imm...New therapy raises good cholesterol results in regression of heart disease in mice
... the "good" cholesterol -- researcherswere able to shrink artery-blocking deposits that characterize atheros...s a way to prevent heart disease, but also to help shrink the existingblockages in blood vessels," says the study's lead author Daniel J. Rader, M.D.,director...Research challenges conventional thinking on ways to treat prostate cancer
.... Certain drugs, for example, cause the tumor to shrink and PSA levels to decline. But despite initial su...the combination of both drugs caused the tumors to shrink significantly. Clinical trials are currently underway at Memorial Sloan-Kettering to evaluate the e...Earlier detection for breast cancer in sight
...or such X-rays and development work is underway to shrink the size of these sources to make them available for everyday use in larger hospitals. This is not the only prospect synchrotron x-rays offer us in the diagnosis of breast cancer. X-ray diffraction of the atomic structures of solids forms the back...... and breast-cancer patients live longer, aswell as shrink their tumors. Danishefsky and his group also fight cancer with laboratory versions of natural products, compoundsthat have evolved in other organisms as chemical defenses. In mice, for example, a group of bacterialchemicals called epothilones are mor...Protease inhibitor could help prevent alzheimer's
...ext step in the research, according to Tang, is to shrink the chemical compound into a size usable for drug treatments. Such a step should be feasible, he said, but will likely take five years or more. Only after continuing studies in the laboratory can animal and human testing begin. "If the ultimate inh...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, December 5, 2000
...es show "little evidence to support its ability to shrink tumors or cure cancer," hydrazine sulfate has had relatively few reported serious side effects prior to this case report (Editorial, p. 911). Still, the editorial says, "there seems to be little justification for the drug's easy availability and uns...Estrogen has antitumor activity in hormone therapy-resistant breast tumors
...at promotes breast cancer in its early stages--can shrink breast tumors that have developed resistance to the drugs tamoxifen and raloxifene. Tamoxifen is a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) used to treat estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers and prevent recurrence of the disease. However, t...West meets East - WHO tuberculosis treatment
...people responsible are understandably reluctant to shrink their budgets voluntarily. Likewise, professional authority is intimately allied to hospital capacity. Insecure, vulnerable clinicians are, not surprisingly, wary of change and generally reluctant to embrace modifications to work patterns that potent...UT Southwestern receives $1.7 million grant to study effects of long-term space travel on the heart
...he heart's pumping ability and causes the heart to shrink and become stiff. This debilitating condition is also associated with orthostatic intolerance, or the inability to stand upright, and has been documented in short-term space flights. "There has been some concern that if cardiac atrophy is severe then...