New algorithm matches any tumor cells to best possible anti-cancer treatments
...ells or patient tumors can obtain chemosensitivity prediction results on FDA-approved chemotherapeutic compounds. Dr. Theodorescu is planning clinical trials for the new compounds against bladder cancer. Another planned clinical trial would examine patients with a variety of cancers receiving COXEN personaliz...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...ancer. It is also important for us to validate our prediction rule on a larger number of pancreatic cancer cases as well as different control groups." said co-author Randall Brand, a gastroenterologist from ENH and an expert on pancreatic cancer. In trials that began before the pancreas research, the research...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
...bination of both biomarkers gave the most accurate prediction for all study participants We have confirmed the potential importance of ST2 to predict risk. What we dont have now is information on how ST2 changes after adequate heart failure treatment and what that tells us about patients response to therapy, ...