Top 5 facts about new cancer drugErin Bastick
Early results show that a new combination drug therapy is safe and effective against advanced skin cancer in patients who were not able to have their tumors surgically removed. The drug combination is among the first, researchers say, to demonstrate the potential value of a live common ...
Lung cancer causes more deaths in the United States than any other form of cancer, killing eighty percent of those who get it and more than breast, colon and prostate cancers combined. It takes more than 160,000 lives each year in the U.S. But, reportsCBS News correspondent Michelle Giela...
It took more than 14 years but the bet could be paying off.In February,Shenzhen Chipscreen Biosciences' first therapy,a medication for a rare type of lymph-node cancer,hit the market in China. The willingness of veterans like Dr.Lu and others to leave multinational drug companies for Chinese...
“Traditional adult cancer drugs don’t work well in kids because children are still developing and their normal cells divide at a rapid pace,” said Mitra. “This drug combination could potentially help not only minimize the negative impacts of traditional cancer treatment in kids but also give...
FDA approves new colon cancer drugA new drug has received fast-track approval to treat advanced colon cancerFox News
squeezed into nearly every human cell, the body must pack it efficiently, but it also needs to unspool the DNA so that other molecular machinery can access it. The researchers found that a key part of the unspooling process, known as histone acetylation, is very active in endometrial cancer...
The researchers, however, found that the hyperactive resistant melanoma cells produced large amounts of reactive oxygen species, but cancer cells that were still sensitive to the drug did not do this. Reactive oxygen species is a double-edged sword, according to the researchers. They play an imp...
This joint project integrated a pioneering new gene-editing technique developed by the Christiana Care Gene Editing Institute into NevellusDX’s cancer diagnostic process. It led NovellusDx to identify a specific drug as a candidate to treat various types of cancer. ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The cost of developing a new cancer drug is "significantly" less than previously thought, new research published Monday in the U.S. journal JAMA Internal Medicine said. The new analysis said the actual amount is about 648 million U.S. dollars, not the of...