cancer drugs

Cancer drugs my build and not tear down blood vessels

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:00:00 -0600

(University of California - San Diego) Scientists have thought that one way to foil a tumor from generating blood vessels to feed its growth -- a process called angiogenesis -- was by creating drugs aimed at stopping a key vessel growth-promoting protein. But now the opposite seems to be true.

Growing fuel and medicine: Advancing biofuels and plant-produced...

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Can biofuels produced from non-food plant products ever become a commercial reality? Can plants be engineered to grow vaccines or anti-cancer drugs? These and other questions were explored by researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Arkansas Bioscience Institute at a symposium today at WPI. The answer to these questions may soon be "yes" and teams from WPI and ABI are advancing the science and technology needed to reach those ends.

Researchers study prevention of blood clots in cancer patients

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Rochester Medical Center) As more individuals with cancer are being treated as outpatients, the University of Rochester Medical Center is working on an emerging problem: how to prevent the life-threatening blood clots that can accompany some newer cancer drugs.

Vitamin C, Chemotherapy: Bad Combo?

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:14:58 -0500

Vitamin C supplements and chemotherapy aren't a good combination, says a team of New York researchers. Vitamin C reduced the effectiveness of many cancer drugs, they found in laboratory and animal studies.

Vitamin 'may blunt cancer drugs'

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:42:54 -0500

Vitamin C supplements may reduce benefit from wide range of anti-cancer drugs, research suggests.

MU researcher finds new method to create cancer drugs

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Missouri-Columbia) When doctors treat cancer patients, they like to have different "tools" available. Cancer tumors can be big or small. Some tumors grow very fast, while others grow slowly. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has developed a method that would make it easier for doctors to pick and choose different radiopharmaceuticals to treat different types and sizes of cancer and tumors.

Scientists identify novel inhibitor of human microRNA

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(The Wistar Institute) Scientists at The Wistar Institute and their colleagues have identified, for the first time, a molecule that can regulate microRNAs -- short strands of RNA that play a vital role in gene expression and are closely associated with cancer. The discovery points the way to the development of a new generation of cancer drugs.

Cancer drug death 'like murder'

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:38:11 -0500

The mother of a man who died during a cancer drugs trial says she feels like he has been murdered.

European disparities in access to cancer drugs

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(European Society for Medical Oncology) New research has highlighted stark disparities in access to the latest cancer drugs across European Union nations, according to data presented at the 33rd Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology in Stockholm.

Researchers develop nano-sized 'cargo ships' to target and destr...

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of California - San Diego) Scientists have developed nanometer-sized "cargo ships" that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body's immune radar system, and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.