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Blood Vessels Contribute to Their Own Growth and Oxygen Delivery to Tissues and Tumors
Vascular networks form and expand by “sprouting,” similar to the way trees grow new branches. The process allows fresh oxygen and nutrients to be delivered to tissues, whether in a developing embryo o...
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Read moreAvastin Dramatically Improves Response, Survival in Deadly Recurrent Glioblastomas
Patients with recurrent glioblastoma have a grim prognosis, and conventional treatments were typically limited to largely ineffective and highly toxic chemotherapies. Only about 5 percent of patients ...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew Discovery Brings Hope to Treatment of Lymphatic Diseases
In an article in the Aug. 9, 2009 online edition of Nature Medicine, they report the identification of a new molecule known as soluble VEGFR-2 that blocks lymphangiogenesis – the growth of lymphatics ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreA crystal ball for brain cancer?
UCLA researchers have uncovered a new way to scan brain tumors and predict which ones will be shrunk by the drug Avastin -- before the patient ever starts treatment. By linking high water movement in ...
Medical Engineering | Read moreAsian Spice Could Reduce Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women Exposed to Hormone Replacement Therapy
Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that curcumin, a popular Indian spice derived from the turmeric root, could reduce the cancer risk for women after exposure to hormone replacement th...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreGreen tea may affect prostate cancer progression
"The investigational agent used in the trial, Polyphenon E (provided by Polyphenon Pharma) may have the potential to lower the incidence and slow the progression of prostate cancer," said Ja...
Health and Medicine | Read moreMajor Breakthrough in Early Detection and Prevention of AMD
The marker, a receptor known as CCR3, shows strong potential as a means for both the early detection of the disease and for preventive treatment. The findings were reported in an article published onl...
Health and Medicine | Read moreStudy suggests new approach to common cause of blindness
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in collaboration with lead investigators at the University of Kentucky have identified a new target for the diagnosis ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreVandetanib shows clinical benefit when combined with docetaxel for lung cancer
When combined with standard chemotherapy, an international Phase III trial has shown that the oral targeted therapy vandetanib improves progression-free survival for patients with advanced non-small c...
Life Sciences | Read moreDrug that targets vasculature growth attacks aggressive thyroid cancer
At the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Mayo investigators report that cancer in about two-thirds of 37 patients with aggressive differentiated thyroid cancer treate...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew Light Shed on the Enigma of Salt Intake and Hypertension
Now, investigators from Germany at the University of Erlangen, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Regensburg, collaborating with researchers from Finland and Austria ...
Life Sciences | Read moreA longer lasting tumor blocker
Many cancer treatments work by disrupting the formation of new blood vessels that feed growing tumors. Agents that block a vessel-promoting factor called VEGF have shown promise in human clinical tria...
Life Sciences | Read moreHuman stem cells promote healing of diabetic ulcers
Treatment of chronic wounds is a continuing clinical problem and socio-economic burden with diabetic foot ulcers alone costing the NHS £300 million a year.Scientists in Bristol have found that...
Life Sciences | Read moreAngiogenesis inhibitor improves brain tumor survival by reducing edema
The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of edema – the swelling of brain tissue – a...
Health and Medicine | Read moreStress may hasten the growth of melanoma tumors
But the same new research that infers this also suggests that the use of commonly prescribed blood pressure medicines might slow the development of those tumors and therefore improve these patients’ q...
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