SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Metastatic kidney cancer patients deemed ineligible for targeted therapy clinical trials, but who still received the trial treatment protocol, faced a higher mortality risk, researchers found.
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Soy isoflavone supplements did not decrease breast cancer cell proliferation in a randomized clinical trial, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Aeterna Zentaris Inc. today reported positive updated results for the Phase 1 portion of its ongoing Phase 1/2 study in castration- and taxane-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) with AEZS-108 (zoptarelin doxorubicin), the Company’s targeted cytotoxic luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) analog.
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Free-flowing cancer cells have been mapped with unprecedented accuracy in the bloodstream of patients with prostate, breast and pancreatic cancer, using a brand new approach, in an attempt to assess and control the disease as it spreads in real time through the body, and solve the problem of predicting response and resistance to therapies.
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Could the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in a regular diet help to reduce the risk of colon cancer and protect against carcinogens? A study published in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (CJPP) found that rats given regular multivitamin and mineral supplements showed a significantly lower risk of developing colon cancer when [...]
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Involuntary childlessness owing to reduced fertility is a concern for many men. However, these men do have one advantage - they run a significantly lower risk of suffering from prostate cancer. Researchers are interested in whether this phenomenon could be used in the fight against cancer. There is a clear link between male subfertility and [...]
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World Cancer Day 2012 will focus on preventing cancer and emphasize that up to one third of common cancers can be prevented by lifestyle changes. Medscape Medical News
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(MedPage Today) — The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has reversed its decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening and education.
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Roche/Genentech/Chugai’s pertuzumab plus trastuzumab (Roche/Genentech/Chugai’s Herceptin) and docetaxel (Sanofi’s Taxotere, generics) will become Decision Resources’ proprietary clinical gold-standard treatment for metastatic first-line HER2-positive breast cancer in 2015.
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The drug oxaliplatin is a major reason the prognosis for metastatic colon cancer has gone from an expected survival of several months to a couple years. Unfortunately, the drug can also carry with it debilitating neurological side effects, which generally start as the sensation of pins and needles in fingers and toes and can leave [...]
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