Introgen Drug Boosts Cancer Therapy
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Introgen Therapeutics Inc. on Thursday said a mid-stage trial showed that its experimental cancer drug Advexin improved treatment of advanced breast cancer and aided with the removal of tumors.
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A new drug is better than tamoxifen at preventing breast cancers from coming back and should immediately become the first-line treatment for women with certain tumours, researchers say.
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Injection of a new gene therapy into breast tumors, in combination with chemotherapy, shows impressive therapeutic effects in locally advanced breast cancers, according
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A new drug may give older women with early stages of breast cancer a better chance of beating the disease and stopping it returning and spreading.
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Today was a day of good news for multiple sclerosis patients: FDA granted approval to a new anti-multiple sclerosis drug Antegren developed by Biogen Idec Inc.
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A new type of breast cancer drug is clearly superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in many women and should now be the first drug used to treat the cancer, U.S. and British researchers said on Wednesday.
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A new breast cancer drug is significantly better at preventing the spread and return of the disease than the current treatment, according to a new study in the Lancet medical journal.
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Genentech Inc. on Monday said its colon cancer drug Avastin extended the life of patients when used in combination with a chemotherapy regimen called FOLFOX4 more than the chemotherapy alone in a late stage clinical trial.
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Local researchers have found that two new designer drugs produce strong responses in patients who&#39;ve become resistant to Gleevec, the leukemia wonder drug that heralded a new era in cancer treatment 3 1/2 years ago.
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Harvard researchers are developing the first drug that specifically targets cancer stem cells.
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Genentech Inc said on Tuesday its cancer drug, Avastin, met the primary goal of prolonging progression-free survival when combined with chemotherapy in a breast cancer study, sending its shares up more than 3 percent.
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SAN DIEGO - Two different novel targeted therapies can produce strong responses in patients who have become resistant to Gleevec(tm), the standard therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Cancer cells often have a way of outsmarting new targeted drug therapies, but U.S. researchers said on Thursday a combination of targeted drugs could shut down a tumor's backup plan, resulting in much more effective treatments.
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Lifestyle may play a big role in how well the latest generation of anti-cancer drugs works, research suggests.
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A new type of breast cancer drug is clearly superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in many women and should now be the first drug used
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British scientists have discovered a new way to improve the effectiveness of drugs used to treat prostate cancer.
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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, the groundbreaking cancer pill, research presented Sunday in San Diego at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology shows.