Cancer Weekly articles from August 2002

Cancer Weekly archives from August 2002

HER-2/neu antigen promotes specific T-cell immunity in cancer patients.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Patients with breast, ovarian, or non-small cell lung cancer were able to develop T-cell immunity to HER-2/neu protein, according to a report in the...

Researchers switch off cancer gene, trick cells to self-destruct.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Stanford University Medical Center have tricked cancer cells into self-destructing by briefly disabling a cancer-causing gene. Although the gene revs back up after deactivation, the...

Breakthrough seen in hormonal therapy.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Highlights from the ground-breaking study into the management of early breast cancer - the ATAC (Arimidex, Tamoxifen Alone or in Combination) study - were presented at the 18th UICC Cancer Congress in...

Enzyme inhibitors may prevent recurrent gastric cancer.(COX-2 inhibitors )
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - COX-2 inhibitors could be important for preventing recurrent or remnant gastric cancers, researchers say. The cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 enzyme has been...

Bristol scientists discover new molecule that could prevent tumor growth.(Bristol University )
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists at Bristol University have discovered a new molecule that could prevent tumor growth. Drs. Dave Bates and Steve Harper in the Microvascular Research Laboratories in the department of...

Leukocyte depletion does not eradicate HTLV-1.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Leukocyte depletion of blood products may not prevent transfusion-related infection by a relatively common cancer-causing virus, researchers in the United...

Kytril more effective in controlling chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New data presented to international delegates attending the 14th annual meeting of the Multinational Association of Supportive Cancer Care (MASCC), showed that Kytril (granisetron) is significantly more...

Celgene reports on ubiquitin ligases.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Celgene Corp. (CELG) researchers presented preclinical data on the company's portfolio of novel ubiquitin ligases at the Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery and Development Summit in Princeton, New Jersey. ...

Self-taught stress management techniques most effective in relieving stress of chemotherapy.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients undergoing chemotherapy who utilize self-guided stress management techniques have significantly greater vitality, fewer emotional problems, better mental health, and fewer physical problems,...

Echelon Biosciences advances fight against cancer with new screening technologies.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Echelon Biosciences, Inc., is proud to announce the release of a new proprietary nonradioactive phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI 3-K) drug discovery tool. This screening tool is the first commercially...

High insulin levels may accelerate the growth of liver cancer.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Insulin levels that rise and remain elevated after eating may be responsible for stimulating faster growth of primary liver cancers. That's what medical...

Chemotherapy can eliminate the protective effects of measles and rubella immunizations.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Children who received intensive chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) lost their immunity against measles and rubella and required...

MDS Nordion forms new business unit focused exclusively on oncology software solutions.(Brief Article)
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MDS Nordion has created a new business unit named Oncology Software Solutions reflecting the increased focus and specialization in the development and marketing of its oncology software applications....

Breath test predicts postoperative health.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For patients with lung cancer, surgical resection remains the best hope for cure. Desirable long-term goals of surgical resection include not only improvement in survival but also in quality of life....

QLT begins pivotal phase III clinical program for multidrug resistance.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- QLT, Inc., (QLTI) announced that it has begun patient enrollment for two phase III clinical trials using tariquidar as an adjunctive treatment in combination with first-line chemotherapy for non-small...

Clinical development program expanded for Revimid.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Celgene Corporation (CELG) announced the initiation of five additional trials of Revimid (CC-5013) in hematological and solid tumor cancers. The trials, conducted in partnership with the Comprehensive...

Vessel density, genetic mutations mark lowered survival in gynecological cancer.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Genetic alterations on a gene responsible for suppressing cancer formation are associated with an overgrowth of tumor vessels in ovarian cancers. Women...

Citizens for Healthy Michigan to fight big tobacco.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The following was released by Citizens for a Healthy Michigan: Special interest groups and politicians who raided Michigan's tobacco settlement from healthcare and smoking prevention tried to...

Many young Americans get annual sunburns.
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The annual sunburn is still a tradition for many Americans, with nearly 60% of young adults reporting at least one sunburn in the past year, according to a new study Sun damage is the leading...

Excess iron could heighten mortality risk.(hematopoietic stem cell transplantation)
August 6, 2002... 2002 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Elevated iron levels could heighten the mortality risk after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, researchers in Spain report. "Iron overload (IO) is...

Glioma remission promoted by combining vaccination and radiation.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Vaccination alone stimulated the growth of intracranial glioma tumors, but the addition of radiation therapy induced an immune response that...

Retinoic acid locks out macrophage and monocyte-linked tumor stimulation.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Retinoic acid can shut down angiogenesis in head and neck cancers by modulating several mechanisms at once, medical investigators have reported. A new...

Cause of death misclassified in some cancer patients.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The overall cancer mortality rate could increase by about 1% if all deaths within 1 month of cancer-related surgery were correctly attributed to the underlying cancer rather than the surgical...

Drug wrecks the power plants of cancer cells.(compound F16)
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have identified a compound that selectively kills tumor cells by destroying their metabolic power plants, and they believe that the compound, code-named F16, could serve as a model for a...

Measuring a specific immune response may aid in diagnosis.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a step that might eventually make colon cancer easier to detect and treat, a study published July 16, 2002, in the journal Cancer Research finds that the immune system naturally identifies the...

Aspirin's target, the COX-2 enzyme, linked to cancer of the uterus.(cyclooxydase-2)
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A researcher at the University of Illinois (UIC) at Chicago College of Medicine has discovered a link between cancer of the uterus and the COX-2 enzyme (cyclooxydase-2), a compound first implicated in...

Postsurgery chemotherapy questioned for certain patients.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Postmenopausal breast cancer patients with estrogen-sensitive tumors who undergo chemotherapy following surgery to increase their survival odds may not benefit from the regimen, which is often...

Reduced breastfeeding in Western countries makes major contribution to incidence.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Small family size and short-duration or no breastfeeding in Western populations substantially increases the risk of breast cancer, conclude authors of a study in the July 20, 2002, issue of the Lancet....

Task force addresses use of drugs to reduce breast cancer risk.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force today recommended that clinicians discuss the potential benefits and risks of taking prescription medicines such as tamoxifen to reduce the risk of breast cancer...

Study suggests MDA-7/interleukin-24 protein plays key role in activating immune system against cancer.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A preclinical study published in the Journal of Immunology suggests that the MDA-7/interleukin-24 (IL-24) protein plays an important role in the activation of the human immune system to fight cancer....

Doctors inclined to test for cancer when hepatitis B core antibody present.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Medical researchers in Japan are advising that patients positive for hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) should be screened for a common form of liver cancer....

Preclinical data support broad oncology applications for Panzem.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- EntreMed, Inc., (ENMD), a biopharmaceutical leader in angiogenesis research and product development, has published preclinical data that its drug candidate Panzem, an endogenous metabolite of estrogen,...

Search for marker leads investigators to new liver cancer gene.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Genetic screening assays performed by researchers in China have yielded a new gene that is expressed at significant levels in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a...

Modified interferon and paclitaxel partner to hammer ovarian cancers.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Researchers think that combining pegylated interferon with paclitaxel may be useful for treating one of the most menacing forms of gynecological cancers,...

Novel surgery helps patients.(radiofrequency ablation)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Radiofrequency ablation treatments provide significant reduction in pain and discomfort for head and neck cancer patients with advanced tumors in the mouth and throat, according to a recent study of...

HMP announces launch of LifeGuard safety infusion set.(Horizon Medical Products Inc.)
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Atlanta-based medical device manufacturer Horizon Medical Products, Inc., (HMP) announced the launch of its LifeGuard Safety Huber infusion set. Infusion sets are commonly used in the area of...

Patient reaches 5-year survival mark after treatment with Advexin.(lung cancer patient)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A late-stage lung cancer patient treated with Advexin adenoviral p53 gene drug therapy has survived for 63 months, according to Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. (INGN). Typically, the midpoint of known...

Studying genes may aid treatment decisions.(for early stage lung cancers)
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Studying the genes active in early stage lung cancers may help identify which patients are at greatest risk of dying, allowing their doctors to prescribe more aggressive treatment, researchers report....

Data demonstrate Actimid well tolerated, active.(for the treatment of refractory multiple myeloma)
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Celgene Corporation (CELG) announced that investigators from Guy's Hospital in London presented interim data at the 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Experimental Hematology from an...

Increased risk linked to estrogen replacement therapy.(ovarian cancer risk found)
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have found that women in a large study who used estrogen replacement therapy after menopause were at increased risk for ovarian cancer. The report...

Scientists develop unique tracking system that seeks out metastases.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center and in the department of urology have demonstrated for the first time that they can locate difficult-to-detect...

Study links von Hippel-Lindau mutations with angiogenesis in kidney cancer.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Genetic mutations on the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor gene can be linked to enhanced expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and renal...

Panel calls for greater attention to cancer patients' pain, depression, and fatigue.
August 13, 2002... 2002 AUG 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health care professionals, caregivers, and patients all have an important role in symptom management throughout the course of cancer. Evidence suggests that pain is often undertreated, despite the...

Glioma remission promoted by combining vaccination and radiation.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Vaccination alone stimulated the growth of intracranial glioma tumors, but the addition of radiation therapy induced an immune response that...

Retinoic acid locks out macrophage and monocyte-linked tumor stimulation.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Retinoic acid can shut down angiogenesis in head and neck cancers by modulating several mechanisms at once, medical investigators have reported. A new...

Cause of death misclassified in some cancer patients.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The overall cancer mortality rate could increase by about 1% if all deaths within 1 month of cancer-related surgery were correctly attributed to the underlying cancer rather than the surgical...

Drug wrecks the power plants of cancer cells.(F16 compound)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have identified a compound that selectively kills tumor cells by destroying their metabolic power plants, and they believe that the compound, code-named F16, could serve as a model for a...

Measuring a specific immune response may aid in diagnosis.(colon cancer)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a step that might eventually make colon cancer easier to detect and treat, a study published July 16, 2002, in the journal Cancer Research finds that the immune system naturally identifies the...

Aspirin's target, the COX-2 enzyme, linked to cancer of the uterus.(cyclooxydase-2)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A researcher at the University of Illinois (UIC) at Chicago College of Medicine has discovered a link between cancer of the uterus and the COX-2 enzyme (cyclooxydase-2), a compound first implicated in...

Postsurgery chemotherapy questioned for certain patients.(breast cancer)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Postmenopausal breast cancer patients with estrogen-sensitive tumors who undergo chemotherapy following surgery to increase their survival odds may not benefit from the regimen, which is often...

Reduced breastfeeding in Western countries makes major contribution to incidence.(breast cancer)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Small family size and short-duration or no breastfeeding in Western populations substantially increases the risk of breast cancer, conclude authors of a study in the July 20, 2002, issue of the Lancet....

Task force addresses use of drugs to reduce breast cancer risk.(U.S. Preventive Services Task Force)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force today recommended that clinicians discuss the potential benefits and risks of taking prescription medicines such as tamoxifen to reduce the risk of breast cancer...

Study suggests MDA-7/interleukin-24 protein plays key role in activating immune system against cancer.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A preclinical study published in the Journal of Immunology suggests that the MDA-7/interleukin-24 (IL-24) protein plays an important role in the activation of the human immune system to fight cancer....

Doctors inclined to test for cancer when hepatitis B core antibody present.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Medical researchers in Japan are advising that patients positive for hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) should be screened for a common form of liver cancer....

Preclinical data support broad oncology applications for Panzem.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- EntreMed, Inc., (ENMD), a biopharmaceutical leader in angiogenesis research and product development, has published preclinical data that its drug candidate Panzem, an endogenous metabolite of estrogen,...

Search for marker leads investigators to new liver cancer gene.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Genetic screening assays performed by researchers in China have yielded a new gene that is expressed at significant levels in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a...

Modified interferon and paclitaxel partner to hammer ovarian cancers.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Researchers think that combining pegylated interferon with paclitaxel may be useful for treating one of the most menacing forms of gynecological cancers,...

Novel surgery helps patients.(radiofrequency ablation )(Brief Article)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Radiofrequency ablation treatments provide significant reduction in pain and discomfort for head and neck cancer patients with advanced tumors in the mouth and throat, according to a recent study of...

HMP announces launch of LifeGuard safety infusion set.(Horizon Medical Products Inc.)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Atlanta-based medical device manufacturer Horizon Medical Products, Inc., (HMP) announced the launch of its LifeGuard Safety Huber infusion set. Infusion sets are commonly used in the area of...

Patient reaches 5-year survival mark after treatment with Advexin.(Brief Article)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A late-stage lung cancer patient treated with Advexin adenoviral p53 gene drug therapy has survived for 63 months, according to Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. (INGN). Typically, the midpoint of known...

Studying genes may aid treatment decisions.(lung cancers)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Studying the genes active in early stage lung cancers may help identify which patients are at greatest risk of dying, allowing their doctors to prescribe more aggressive treatment, researchers report....

Data demonstrate Actimid well tolerated, active.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Celgene Corporation (CELG) announced that investigators from Guy's Hospital in London presented interim data at the 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Experimental Hematology from an...

Increased risk linked to estrogen replacement therapy.(ovarian cancer)
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have found that women in a large study who used estrogen replacement therapy after menopause were at increased risk for ovarian cancer. The report...

Scientists develop unique tracking system that seeks out metastases.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center and in the department of urology have demonstrated for the first time that they can locate difficult-to-detect...

Study links von Hippel-Lindau mutations with angiogenesis in kidney cancer.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Genetic mutations on the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor gene can be linked to enhanced expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and renal...

Panel calls for greater attention to cancer patients' pain, depression, and fatigue.
August 20, 2002... 2002 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health care professionals, caregivers, and patients all have an important role in symptom management throughout the course of cancer. Evidence suggests that pain is often undertreated, despite the...

Photodynamic therapy gets a boost from COX-2 inhibitors.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Photodynamic therapy, long used for treating solid tumors and eye disease, may get a boost from cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitors, medical scientists report....

New imaging system could make waves in cancer detection.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- We're all familiar with x-rays being used to look inside our bodies. But according to physicists, medical imaging in the future is likely to be based on an as-yet-unused type of radiation known as...

Laser-based spectometry screening tool may provide early and efficient detection.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the United States. Researchers agree that presymptomatic screening to detect the early stages of cancer, before it has spread...

Study suggests possible link to human growth hormone therapy.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Authors of an observational study in the Lancet highlight a possible link between human growth hormone therapy and an increased risk of colorectal cancer. The investigators comment that further...

Vaccine prepared with 7-hydroxystaurosporin found effective against intracranial tumors.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Enhancing the uptake of glioma tumor antigens by dendritic cells (DCs) through treatment with 7-hydroxystaurosporin increased survival of glioma...

Recombinant growth factor antagonist could be useful for advanced cancers.(Brief Article)
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Researchers believe the hepatocyte growth factor blocker NK4 could be used in gene therapy to treat those with advanced gastric cancers. Members of a...

HRT may prevent endometrial cancer.(hormone replacement therapy)(Brief Article)
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The long-term use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not increase the risk of endometrial cancer and may even protect the endometrium from the disease, concludes a study in the British Medical...

FDA approves Aranesp for anemia associated with chemotherapy.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Amgen (AMGN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia in patients with nonmyeloid...

Computer predicts outcomes of breast cancer.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A computer system that mimics the way people think has been 'trained' by scientists to forecast the outcome of breast cancer cases. In a preliminary study involving 100 women, the system correctly...

Enzyme produced by breast tumor cells an indicator for angiogenic induction.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - New research shows an important enzyme that degrades extracellular matter is predictive of angiogenic induction potential in breast cancer. However, the...

New gene may be breast-specific cancer marker.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Men age 50 and older routinely ask their physician to perform a test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to detect the presence of prostate cancer. And according to a recent report from Irish...

Delay to treatment should be considered confounding factor when assessing outcomes.(Brief Article)
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients who experience the longest delay in treatment are more likely to survive, despite the popular assumption that delay has a significant and harmful impact on survival, finds a study in the...

Researchers remove mice ovaries, culture eggs to maturity.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Japanese researchers have removed ovaries from fetal mice and matured the eggs in a test tube, a technique that someday could save the fertility of girls being treated for cancer. The scientists...

Revenues increase 12%.(Genzyme Corp.)
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genzyme Corp. reported second-quarter financial results for its Genzyme General division (GENZ). Revenues were $267.2 million, an increase of 12% compared with revenues of $239.0 million for the...

Baxter launches Mesnex tablets.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Baxter Healthcare Corporation announced that it is launching an oral formulation of Mesnex (mesna) Tablets as a prophylactic agent to reduce the incidence of ifosfamide-induced hemorrhagic cystitis....

Suppressor gene often turned off or deleted in those who develop liver cancer.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - A deleted tumor suppressor gene may be responsible for increasing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary liver cancer, in patients with hepatitis C virus...

California companies settle federal charges alleging they sold unproven cancer treatments.(Brief Article)
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two California companies that touted insulin injections and "acoustic lightwave therapy" as cancer treatments have settled federal charges that they lacked proof their methods worked and were safe. ...

New test identifies B-cell tumor markers.
August 27, 2002... 2002 AUG 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the United States, multiple myeloma accounts for about 1% of all cancers, and approximately 12,500 new cases are diagnosed every year. This uncommon cancer affects men and women equally, and is...