Scientists are finding ways to put on and off genes as a means of battling cancer, which would eventually lead to highly personalized treatment for cancer at the genetic level. Such methods could shut down cancer’s defenses against medications. The code treatment; The molecular insight into our own DNA is now possible through a field...
Tag: <span>Cancer Therapy</span>
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Team examines use of anti-parasitic drug as new treatment for brain tumors
Marc Symons, PhD, professor in The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research’s Karches Center for Oncology Research, is examining if a common medication administered to treat pinworms, could replace the current treatment used for certain brain cancers. These findings, which are published today in the Feinstein Institute Press’s peer-reviewed, open-access journal Molecular Medicine, could help to...
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“Sci-fi” cancer therapy fights brain tumors, study finds
In this March 29, 2017 photo, Joyce Endresen wears an Optune therapy device for brain cancer, as she speaks on a phone at work in Aurora, Ill. She was diagnosed in December 2014 with Glioblastoma. WASHINGTON — Although it sounds like science fiction, a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first...
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Scientists develop new drug delivery method for cancer therapy
Research Associate Xiuling Li (left) and Associate Professor Christoph Rader led the study on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute. (Photo by Junpeng Qi.) Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a new drug delivery method that produces strong results in treating cancers in animal models,...
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Mesothelioma shows promising response to existing immunotherapy drug
An existing immunotherapy drug called pembrolizumab appears to be effective in the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive lung cancer that is primarily caused by exposure to asbestos. Writing in The Lancet Oncology, researchers describe the first study to show a positive result from using the antibody drug against this rare cancer. Researchers...