By: Maggie Fox From: nbcnews.com Immune therapy drugs can transform lung cancer treatment, giving patients years of extra life, doctors reported Monday. They found that pre-treating lung cancer patients with immune therapy drugs before they have surgery can help melt away the tumor and at the same time limit or even stop its spread. And combinations of immunotherapy drugs have helped …
New drug attacks cancer-causing genes
By: Tim Newman From: medicalnewstoday.com Two recent papers attack two cancer-related problems using the same drug. They hope that it might improve survival in breast and lung cancer and halt obesity-related cancers. Researchers from Michigan State University in East Lansing are using novel molecular routes to attack cancer. The scientists were particularly interested in bromodomain inhibitors (BET inhibitors). These are …
Promising drug may stop cancer-causing gene in its tracks
Source: Michigan State University From: sciencedaily.com Michigan State University scientists are testing a promising drug that may stop a gene associated with obesity from triggering breast and lung cancer, as well as prevent these cancers from growing. These findings are based on two studies featured in the latest issue of Cancer Prevention Research. The first was a preclinical study, led …
Lung cancer tumor growth halved with new approach
By: Maria Cohut From: medicalnewstoday.com New research from Sweden has taken strides toward finding a cure for lung cancer. It focused on noncoding molecules that have been puzzling scientists for a long time. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), lung cancer caused around 25.9 percent of all cancer-related deaths last year and accounted for 13.2 percent of all new …
Have scientists found an anti-cancer vaccine?
By: Ana Sandoiu From: medicalnewstoday.com Researchers from Stanford University used stem cells to create a vaccine that has proven effective against breast, lung, and skin cancer in mice. To produce the vaccine, the scientists turned to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), or stem cells that are generated from adult cells. Over a decade ago, Japanese-based scientists showed for the first …
New biomarkers predict outcome of cancer immunotherapy
Source: University of Zurich From: sciencedaily.com Nowadays, melanoma and lung cancer can be combatted effectively through immunotherapy, which makes targeted use of the immune system’s normal function of regularly examining the body’s tissue for pathogens and damages. Specific inhibitors are used to activate immune cells in a way that makes them identify cancer cells as foreign bodies and eliminate them. …
Astra’s Immune Drug First to Check Mid-Stage Lung Cancer Growth
By: John Lauerman and Naomi Kresge From: bloomberg.com AstraZeneca Plc’s Imfinzi stalled the progress of mid-stage lung cancers in a trial, offering patients a potential new therapy for the deadly condition and boosting the U.K. company’s prospects in the race to develop breakthrough treatments. Patients who received Imfinzi after radiation and chemotherapy saw growth of their tumors pause about three times as …
New chemoprevention trial hopes to stop dangerous lesions from progressing to cancer
From: news-medical.net New treatments have extended the lives of many lung cancer patients. However, even better than treating lung cancer would be preventing it from developing in the first place. An ongoing clinical trial by University of Colorado Cancer Center investigators working at Denver Veterans Administration Hospital and in association with the National Cancer Institute Division of Chemoprevention is evaluating …
A Cuban vaccine might some day turn lung cancer into a chronic disease
By: Mimi Whitefield From: miamiherald.com The first patients in a clinical trial at Roswell Park Cancer Institute have begun receiving monthly doses of CIMAvax-EGF, a Cuban lung cancer vaccine that U.S. researchers say shows promise in preventing the recurrence of lung cancer — the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. The Roswell trial, which was authorized by …
Doctors Excited By Results Of New Immunotherapy Cancer Treatment
By: Dr. Maria Simbra From: pittsburgh.cbslocal.com No chemotherapy, No radiation. There’s a new way to treat cancer that doesn’t involve either. It’s working for patients and even doctors are excited about it. Joe Milcarek had no symptoms of lung cancer. Doctors discovered it on scans he had as part of participation in a lung study. “They found a tumor about …