Daily non-political popular news in brief.

Hope for a more effective and less toxic cancer drug

Detailed evaluation conducted at WEHI into a possible new cancer drug suggests that it may prove to be more effective and less toxic than current chemotherapeutic drugs.

Read more »

Keywords: hope, effective, toxic, cancer, drug

« Previous | Next »

Similar news on "Hope for a more effective and less toxic cancer drug":

1. 'Wrapping' Gleevec fights drug-resistant cancer
   05-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A study in this week's Cancer Research finds the anti-cancer drug Gleevec is far more effective against a drug-resistant strain of cancer when it wraps the target with a molecular bandage that seals out water from a critical area. The wrapping version of the drug -- known as WBZ-7 -- was created, produced and tested by three research teams from Rice University and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
2. Fantastic voyage: Drug delivery by a nanoparticle
   02-13-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   An image portrays targeted nanoparticles delivering high doses of chemotherapy to cancer cells. A team including MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer has demonstrated the precision required to engineer a nanoparticle that is effective in targeted drug delivery.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
3. Gene Signatures Match Cancer And Other Diseases With Potentially Effective Drugs
   09-29-2006 · ScienceDaily
   In one of the most ambitious spinoffs of the human genome project, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital Boston, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and other collaborating centers have unveiled a new, systematic approach to drug discovery that matches diseases with potential treatments using a universal language based on cells' distinctive gene activity profiles, or "signatures."
   Similar news · Read more »
   
4. Tailored treatments: Promising designer drug provides new insight into cancer biology
   11-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Scientists are making progress toward unraveling the molecular mysteries that underlie cancer progression and treatment resistance. Two studies in the November 2006 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, provide mechanistic details that may explain why the small-molecule chemical ABT-737 is emerging as a unique and effective anticancer agent.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
5. Drug that chokes off tumor blood vessels offers new hope to lung cancer patients
   12-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Patients suffering from the most common type of lung cancer experienced a 20-percent improvement in overall survival in a national clinical trial of a drug that chokes off the blood vessels nourishing tumors, a multicenter study has found.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
6. Synthetic peptide targets latent papilloma virus infections
   01-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Infection with the human papilloma virus, the major cause of cervical cancer, is forever. The virus remains latent in skin cells, ready to flare up at any time to create warts on the skin or the genitals. A new finding by UC Berkeley's Michael Botchan and colleagues offers hope that a drug can halt spread of the virus into new cells, and perhaps even eliminate the virus from the body.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
7. A new target for the treatment of breast cancer
   01-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
   The active ingredient in a drug currently being tested to treat rheumatoid arthritis might also one day serve as an effective means of treating one of the deadliest forms of breast cancer. Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated that inhibiting the activity of the protease enzyme known as TACE can deprive tumor cells of a key factor needed for their proliferation. TACE is strongly present in a form of breast cancer which responds poorly to current therapies.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
8. Taxol bristle ball: a wrench in the works for cancer
   09-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Rice University chemists have discovered a way to load dozens of molecules of the anti-cancer drug Taxol onto tiny gold spheres. The result is a ball many times smaller than a living cell that literally bristles with the drug. Researchers hope to use the Taxol bristle ball to deliver large quantities of Taxol directly to cancer cells. The research will appear in the Sept. 19 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
9. Drug that chokes off tumor blood vessels offers new hope to lung cancer patients
   12-14-2006 · UT Southwestern Medical Center
   Patients suffering from the most common type of lung cancer experienced a 20-percent improvement in overall survival in a national clinical trial of a drug that chokes off the blood vessels nourishing tumors, a multicenter study has found.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
10. New research provides hope for childhood cancer sufferers
    07-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
    Scientists investigating drug therapies for children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) have presented new data demonstrating for the very first time that a small molecule called ABT-737 can increase the effectiveness of standard therapies.
    Similar news · Read more »