Teaming Up Two Drugs Helps Ewing's Sarcoma Patients
A combination of two targeted therapies reduces tumors in treatment-resistant Ewing's sarcoma, a bone cancer that mainly strikes children, adolescents and young adults.
Results of the phase I clinical trial of the paired drugs were announced today at a news briefing at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012 by Aung Naing, M.D., assistant professor in MD Anderson's Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics. He presents the study...
Changes in 4 Proteins Could Guide New Approaches to Breast Cancer
Abnormal activation or production of four proteins involved in translation, the final step of creating other proteins, are associated with...
AACR Awards Pasqualini Caring for Carcinoid Grant at Annual Meeting
An innovative approach to targeting the blood vessels that support neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas has earned the support of a major...
AACR Honors Mendelsohn for 'Extraordinary Achievements'
The American Association for Cancer Research will present its sixth annual AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research to John Mendelsohn, M.D., at the association's annual meeting opening session this Sunday in Chicago.
Mendelsohn is co-director of MD Anderson's Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy (IPCT) and was president of MD Anderson from...
Low Dose Aspirin And Cancer Risk
We have known for the past two decades that aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use reduces the risk of colorectal and...
Molecular Networks Engage in Harmful Talk; Two Drugs Interrupt
Researchers have caught two molecular signaling networks engaged in "crosstalk" that undermines attempts to successfully target cancer-promoting...
Smoking Decline During 25-Year Period Saves Nearly 800,000 Lives
Tobacco use has long been known to cause lung cancer and increased morbidity in smokers. A study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute...
Research Seeks Factors that Keep Mexican-American Adolescents Active
At an early age, children are naturally physically active, full of energy and often find joy in running and jumping in an unstructured environment...
Drug Improves Quality of Life, Extends Survival for Myelofibrosis
Myelofibrosis, a lethal bone marrow malignancy, comes with especially debilitating symptoms that sap a patient's quality of life.
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