By: Denis Campbell From: theguardian.com Cancer patients’ chances of survival are being put at risk by growing delays in carrying out vital tests on them on the NHS, experts in the disease warn today. New official figures show that the number of people waiting more than six weeks for an MRI or CT scan has doubled in a year and …
Biotech Makes Personalized Cancer Vaccines Using Tumor Samples
By: Susan Young Rojahn From: technologyreview.com A highly personalized medical technique is allowing patients with advanced kidney cancer to live nearly three times as long as they normally do. In an experiment involving 21 patients, around half lived more than two and half years after diagnosis with kidney cancer that had begun to spread. Five patients are alive after more …
Trials let more patients get ‘breakthrough’ cancer therapies closer to home
By: Liv Osby From: greenvilleonline.com Rhonda McNeely will never forget that November day she had to tell her children she had advanced cancer. “When you have to come home and tell your daughters that you have cancer,” she said, “the looks in their eyes … it was a very sobering thing for all of us.” If there was any ray …
Prostate cancer drug delivers benefits before chemotherapy
An international clinical trial, led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, explored use of enzalutamide before chemotherapy; the drug reduced the risk of disease progression by 81% and improved survival, according to results published in the New England Journal of Medicine A drug used to treat men with late-stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming …
SLC lodge a place to stay for traveling cancer patients
By: Kevin Jenkins From: thespectrum.com St. George resident Tosha Stevenson knows the challenges of parenting a cancer-stricken child. Her 5-year-old daughter Taleah already has undergone two years of chemotherapy treatments in Salt Lake City and is preparing for a bone marrow transplant next week because of a relapse. Stevenson’s mother and mother-in-law have helped her care for her infant twins …
Biotech firm takes cancer fight to startup level
Renay San Miguel, KING From: usatoday.com Medical research institutions may all target the same maladies, but they regularly compete with each other over talent and funding. So how unusual is it for three of the country’s top cancer research facilities to combine their efforts to form a biotech startup company? “It is relatively rare to bring three institutions of that …
New gene tests may give cancer patients quicker path to treatment
Published by: Reuters From: foxnews.com A new way of evaluating tumors may soon help cancer patients identify the underlying genetic link to their disease – and the best possible treatment – all in a single test. Researchers are set to begin clinical trials using a more comprehensive testing method that looks for all of the known genes that may be …
GE Healthcare Announces FDA Approval of Invenia™ ABUS for Enhanced Patient Experience and 35% More Accurate Diagnosis in Women with Dense Breasts
First U.S. Installs of Next-generation Breast Imaging Technology at Fairfax Radiological Breast Diagnostic Imaging Center in D.C. and Phelps Memorial Hospital in NY GE Healthcare today announced FDA approval and the U.S. launch of their new breast imaging technology, the Invenia™ ABUS, proven to help clinicians find 35.7% more cancers in women with dense breasts than mammograms alone1. In keeping …
Sovaldi Vs. Cancer Drugs: Price And Value In The Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Bernard Munos From: forbes.com The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology is the venue where the pharmaceutical industry showcases its new drugs for cancer. For the last several years, these have been highly-anticipated events where stunning progress has been reported in treating a disease against which President Nixon declared war back in 1971. And each year’s …
NYU College of Nursing Researchers Pilot Patient-Centered Educational and Behavioral Program to Reduce Lymphedema Risk
The study, designed to promote lymph flow and optimize body mass index (BMI) after breast cancer surgery, saw a 97% success rate for patients in the program one year after surgery. Viewed as one of the most unfortunate outcomes of breast cancer treatment, lymphedema is characterized by an accumulation of lymph fluid in the interstitial spaces of the affected limb, …