New drug shows promise in treatment of advanced thyroid cancer
...rial, 18 out of 60 patients (30%) had their tumors shrink by 31 to 83 percent. Another 25 patients (42%) had stable disease, with no tumor progression or slight reduction in size, when measured at four months. Many of those patients still have stable disease. "This is exciting," said study presenter Ezr...U-M study finds lymphoma drug effective over long term
...nety-five percent of the patients saw their tumors shrink from the treatment and three-quarters of patients went into complete remission. Patients were followed for a median of eight years, and nearly two-thirds have remained in complete remission eight years after treatment. "For years we have known ra...Mid Sweden University leads development of digital color x-rays
...constructing a color x-ray camera is to be able to shrink the large-scale detection equipment used by nuclear physicists to the microscopic format. The readout electronics for each pixel in the cameras picture sensor must be squeezed into an area of 55 x 55 m, and whats more be x-ray safe. The Mid Sweden...Fingerprint instead of blood sample
... the person who made the fingerprints, which could shrink the pool of suspects. In this way, it should be possible to use fingerprints to detect drugs, medications, or food that have been consumed, and also to diagnose some diseases. Researchers want to coax all of these secrets out of the tiny traces of p...Chemotherapy more effective when given before breast cancer surgery
.... One reason for giving chemotherapy first is to shrink tumors before surgery, the researchers say. Moreover, preoperative chemotherapy allows doctors to see if a tumor is resistant to a particular drug and thus adjust the dose or switch to another drug after surgery. The patient might avoid toxic side...Cancer drug can extend survival in patients with deadly brain tumors
...xty-three percent of the patients saw their tumors shrink by at least 50 percent in the first 12 weeks of the study and 38 percent were progression-free at six months, meaning their tumors had not grown, Vredenburgh said. "Going forward, we will also explore the efficacy of this treatment in newly diagno...New class of targeted cancer drugs shows promise in slowing progression of recurrent prostate cancer
...hen it is evaluated as a tool to slow not stop or shrink -- tumor growth. The theory is that by significantly slowing progression of the cancer, patients will experience a good quality of life for a longer period of time, said Agus. Ultimately, we hope drugs like pertuzumab will help us reach the point w...New angiogenesis inhibitor has promise for treating deadly brain tumor
...od. Imaging studies showed that tumors began to shrink in most participants within 28 days of the initial AZD2171 dose. Overall, the tumors shrank by at least 25 percent in three-quarters of the study participants and by 50 percent or more in half of the patients. Factors indicating a normalization of ...Youth are receiving shorter inpatient stays for mental health treatment
...tence of these programs it is unlikely that we can shrink the length of an inpatient stay more than it already is," says Hunt. Inpatient mental health professionals now routinely evaluate, treat, and discharge depressed children and adolescents in four days, well before the onset of response to antidepres...Rochester study rolls out RU-486 to treat uterine fibroids
Low doses of the drug mifepristone shrink uterine fibroid tumors and greatly improve the quality of life in women who suffer from pain and heavy bleeding, according to a University of Rochester study published in the December Obstetrics and Gynecology journal. Leiomyoma, the medical term ...Gene transfer using mutant form of good cholesterol cuts vascular plaque and inflammation
...inic in which intravenous injections were found to shrink plaque in human coronary arteries. The Cedars-Sinai researchers, collaborating with researchers from Sweden, also are developing vaccine against LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) that one day may be administered in childhood to provide lifelong pr...Jefferson radiation oncologists among first to use cone beam CT to improve treatment accuracy
...therapy. They might lose or gain fluid. Tumors may shrink or unfortunately, continue to grow. As a result, radiation target sites change, which can be problematic for treatment. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson are among the first centers in th...New hope in cancer vaccines emerges as novel therapies are developed and tested
... from the NCI in 2003, Hwu found this method could shrink tumors in about half of patients with metastatic melanoma - a higher response rate than any other therapy for this advanced cancer. His challenge, however, has been to come up with ways to grow the T cells efficiently, Hwu says. "We are trying to ...Researchers uncover how prostate cancer cells defy death
...cer. Lowering hormone levels makes prostate cancer shrink or grow more slowly. It is considered the most efficient systemic therapy for prostate cancer. However, nearly all prostate cancers become resistant to this treatment over time. The researchers evaluated three different pathways involved in cell s...Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures
...e cell into an electron microscope, and it doesn't shrink when air is evacuated from the microscope chamber." The cell can be immediately imaged, says Brinker. "Spin-coating" refers to deposition of the cell slurry on a spinning substrate until dry. From their comfortable "home," the empowered cells can...Scientists discover why cornea is transparent and free of blood vessels, allowing vision
... corneas that have undergone severe trauma or help shrink tumors fed by rapidly growing abnormal blood vessels," he says. "In fact, the next step in our work is exactly this." ...OHSU Cancer Institute study points to future of personalized medicine
...tyrosine kinase. It acts in two ways -- helping to shrink tumors and to keep them from growing new blood vessels. In January, 2006 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Suntinib for the treatment of imatinib-resistant GIST. The study examined tumors in 97 GIST patients who were taking Sunitnib d...Penn researchers start new clinical trial to examine ways to improve treatment of uterine fibroids
...e UFE procedure. They shut them down and gradually shrink them, by blocking the blood supply to the fibroids. They do this by using a catheter to inject embolic agents (tiny plastic or sponge-like particles) into the artery, to "dam up" the blood flow to the fibroids. During this trial at Penn, several rese...Pregnant women should not ignore breast cancer symptoms
...n the second and third trimesters in an attempt to shrink the tumors. This type of chemotherapy poses minimal risk to the developing fetus and is the preferable method of treatment for pregnant women, in whom radiation treatments and surgery are usually avoided. Twelve of these 16 women underwent ultrasound...Potential prostate cancer treatment improvements discovered by researchers at Cedars-Sinai
...s through research studies, cancer drugs needed to shrink tumors by 50 percent," Agus said. "Now, the new way of thinking about the effectiveness of cancer drugs is whether they can slow cancer's growth, which ultimately may significantly benefit patients." Through the study, patients were given a daily or...