Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
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...d chemotherapy was better than either one alone at shrinking tumors and keeping them in check. "Until now, there was no known effective therapy for people whose colorectal cancer progressed following front-line therapy," said Rothenberg, Associate Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and associate profess...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
...reveal when tumors are growing - and when they are shrinking in response to treatment. Meanwhile, a project led by VARI researchers will use fluorescent molecular "tags" and imaging techniques to look at the activity of a protein called Met that is key to cancer's development and ability to spread. The resear...Rutgers researcher finds brain connections may reorganize in Parkinson's disease
... size when dopamine deprived. "The neurons weren't shrinking or moving closer together; they were still distributed about the same as a normal brain," explained West. "But evidence showed that around the edges of the clusters some of the neurons changed their responsiveness and were thereby excluded from thei...Combining two types of radiation therapy better for treating brain cancer
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...s. Chemotherapy has been relatively ineffective in shrinking tumors and improving quality of life.Between 1996 and 2001, the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), a federally funded clinical trials group, led by researchers at Jefferson Medical College and elsewhere randomly assigned 333 patients to receive...