In both treatment groups, patients with recurrent glioblastomas whose tumors had few mutations survived longer than the patients with highly mutated tumors. This was only true, however, for patients with recurrent tumors, not for patients with newly diagnosed disease who had not yet received treatmen...
lung, kidney, cervical and ovarian cancers, as well as recurrent glioblastoma, which is a particular type of brain tumor. Avastin, which also is known as bevacizumab, essentially blocks the growth of blood vessels that would otherwise feed
Oncolytic viruses have also emerged as an additional therapeutic agent for cancer treatment. These viruses are designed to target and kill tumor cells while leaving the normal cells unharmed. As part of this process, oncolytic virus infection stimulates anti-cancer immune responses that augment the ...
We performed a treatment-based analysis of data from the pivotal phase III trial of the NovoTTF-100A System versus best physician's choice (BPC) chemotherapy in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), with particular focus on efficacy in patients using NovoTTF Therapy as intended. ...