Tag: Cancer Drugs

Using Targeted Microbubbles to Administer Toxic Cancer Drugs

December 10, 2020
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Leeds, UK — New research has shown how microbubbles carrying powerful cancer drugs can be guided to the site of a tumour using antibodies. Microbubbles are small manufactured spheres half the size...

A New Approach to Targeting Cancer Cells

May 18, 2019
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Riverside, CA — A University of California, Riverside, research team has come up with a new approach to targeting cancer cells that circumvents a challenge faced by currently available cancer drugs. A...

Combined Approach Offers Hope to Lung Cancer Patients who Become Resistant to Drugs

July 26, 2018

Rehovot, Israel — New-generation lung cancer drugs have been effective in a large number of patients, but within about a year, the patients tend to develop resistance to the therapy.

Testosterone Research Brings New Hope for Cancer Patients

July 16, 2018
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Austin, TX — Dr. Melinda Sheffield-Moore, professor and head of the Department of Health and Kinesiology, along with researchers at University of Texas Medical Branch, showed that the hormone testosterone...

New Hope for Patients with Incurable and Disabling Hand Condition, Dupuytren’s Disease

July 9, 2018
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Oxford, UK — Researchers have found that injection of the anti-TNF drug adalimumab into Dupuytren’s disease nodules results in the reduction of the cell characteristics responsible for progression...

Scientists Detect New Ovarian Cancer Target

June 14, 2018
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Houston, TX — Researchers at Houston Methodist Research Institute and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a prescription drug, Calcitriol, approved by the Food and Drug Administration...

Bladder Cancer Model could Pave the Way for Better Drug Efficacy Studies

May 21, 2018
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Chapel Hill, NC — Understanding that not all bladder cancers are the same, researchers have created a tool that may help them to uncover why only a fraction of patients respond to new immune-based ...

Ovarian Cancer Drug Shows Promise in Pancreatic Cancer Patients with BRCA Mutation

May 17, 2018
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Philadelphia, PA — A targeted therapy that has shown its power in fighting ovarian cancer in women including those with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations may also help patients with aggressive pancreatic cancer...

Tumour-like Spheres Help Scientists Discover Smarter Cancer Drugs

May 14, 2018
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Jupiter, FL — Cancer is a disease often driven by mutations in genes. As researchers learn more about these genes, and the proteins they code for, they are seeking smarter drugs to target them.

New Lab Study Reveals How Breast Cancer Drug can Accelerate Cancer Cell Growth

May 1, 2018
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London, UK — The breast cancer drug lapatinib which is designed to shrink tumours can sometimes cause them to grow in the lab, according to a new study published in eLife.

New Class of Drugs could Help Tackle Treatment-Resistant Cancers, Study Shows

April 10, 2018
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London, UK — Researchers have discovered a new class of drug that has the potential to help cancer patients who no longer respond to existing therapies.

Taking a Standard Prostate Cancer Drug with Food Boosts Impact, Lowers Cost

March 29, 2018
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Chicago, IL — Study shows that by taking a high-cost drug with a low-fat meal — instead of on an empty stomach, as prescribed — prostate cancer patients could decrease their daily dose, prevent digestive...

New Family of Promising, Selective Silver-Based Anti-Cancer Drugs Discovered

March 26, 2018
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Johannesburg, South Africa — A new family of very promising silver-based anti-cancer drugs has been discovered by researchers in South Africa.

Potential Cognitive Effects of Targeted Drugs in Children may be Reversible with Therapy

March 20, 2018
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Washington, DC — Young mice that received molecularly targeted therapies used to treat brain cancer in human patients sustained cognitive and behavioural deficits, but the deficits were largely reversible...

A Small, Daily Dose of Viagra may Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk, Research Shows

March 19, 2018
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Augusta, GA — A small, daily dose of Viagra significantly reduces colorectal cancer risk in an animal model that is genetically predetermined to have the third leading cause of cancer death, scientists...

Using Single-Cell Imaging and Mathematical Modelling to Determine Effective Drug Properties

March 13, 2018
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Tampa, FL — Researchers have combined single-cell imaging of cancer cells in mice with mathematical modelling to determine which drug characteristics are the most important for efficient drug uptake.

Natural Alkaloid Extracted from Daffodils Could Help in Fight Against Cancer

February 27, 2018
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Bruxelles, Belgium — A study published in the scientific journal Structure (Cell Press) describes the anti-cancer effects of a natural alkaloid extracted from Daffodils.

Cancer Researchers Hit a Bullseye with New Drug Target for Ewing Sarcoma

January 25, 2018
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Boston, MA — Screening a class of recently-developed drug compounds — so-called “CDK inhibitors” capable of blocking CDK7/12/13 proteins — against hundreds of different human...

Novel Precision Medicine Will Be Tested for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

January 17, 2018
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New York, NY – The Lustgarten Foundation has awarded Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) a three-year grant, as part of its Translational Clinical Program,...

Using Drug for Iron Overload Could Make Leakaemia Treatment More Effective

December 21, 2017
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London, UK – Chemotherapy for one type of leukaemia could be improved by giving patients a drug currently used to treat an unrelated condition, new research shows.

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