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Mayo Clinic study shows drug could effectively treat, prevent the spread of breast cancer
11-01-2007 · EurekAlert!A Mayo Clinic study of a drug that has shown promise in treating sarcoma, lung and brain cancers, demonstrates that the drug may also be effective in treating breast cancer, in particular the spread of breast cancer.
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06-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
North Central Cancer Treatment Group researchers based at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have discovered that low doses of a drug used to prevent epileptic seizures and to treat nerve pain caused by shingles substantially reduces hot flashes in patients who are undergoing anti-hormonal treatment, or androgen-deprivation therapy, for prostate cancer.
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- Tiny radioactive spheres effectively treat cancer that has spread to the liver
10-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Novel MS drug shows promise in 2 lethal leukemias
08-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study suggests that an experimental drug being tested for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and to prevent organ rejection might also help people with certain deadly forms of chronic and acute leukemia. The laboratory and animal study focused on the drug, called fingolimod. Researchers said it might help patients with advanced chronic myelogenous leukemia or acute lymphocytic leukemia, and whose cancer cells show a particular genetic change called the Philadelphia chromosome.
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- Survival shortened when ER/PR negative breast cancer spreads to the brain
12-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Two studies from Mayo Clinic's site in Jacksonville, Fla., of women whose breast cancer spread to their brain, have found that women whose tumors do not have estrogen or progesterone receptors have the worst overall outcomes. Because of this, these patients should be treated aggressively after an initial diagnosis to help prevent such a metastasis, say the investigators, who presented their findings at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
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- Freezing bone cancer tumors reduces pain, Mayo Clinic study shows
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- Study shows liver an excellent target for cancer gene therapy using viral vectors
02-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
A featured paper in the Feb. 14 issue of Nature Cancer Gene Therapy demonstrates that cancer cells in the liver are excellent targets for gene therapy using adenoviral vectors, based upon a fundamental new understanding of the differences between cancerous and normal liver cells. The findings signal a new way to treat cancers that have spread to the liver, such as metastatic cancers of the colon and breast.
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- Cryoablation continues to show good results for kidney cancer patients
11-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
A review of 62 Mayo Clinic patients who underwent cryoablation to treat cancerous kidney tumors shows that the patients are cancer free for up to two and a half years after having had the procedure.
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- Small RNAs can prevent spread of breast cancer
01-09-2008 · EurekAlert!
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have identified small pieces of ribonucleic acid that suppress the spread of breast cancer to the lungs and bone. The new research shows that the most invasive and aggressive human breast cancer tumors are missing three critical microRNA molecules. When the researchers put those molecules back into human breast cancer tumors in mice, the tumors lost their ability to spread.
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- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researcher finds mold by-product kills multiple myeloma
04-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Promising drug combination may help those with ocular melanoma that has spread
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
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