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Health News Posted on May 26, 2012

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Upshot of Chemotherapy On Gross Survival Appears Amplified Based On Tumor Size
Possibility of a positive correlation amid tumor size and adjuvant platinum based chemotherapy in surgically resected patients with node negative non-small cell lung cancer as pointed by lat...

Patients With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer may be Helped by Accelerated Chemotherapy Before Surgery
It has emerged that for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, oncologists may begin treatment before they undergo surgical removal of the bladder. A large randomized clinical tri...

Scientists Identify Genetic Predictor of Breast Cancer Response to Chemotherapy
While, chemotherapy is a major first line defense against breast cancer, a patient's response is often variable and unpredictable. A study published in BioMed Central's open access jour...

Drug Added To Customary Chemotherapy Does Not Offer Survival Benefit For Older Lung Cancer Patients
Drug bevacizumab (Avastin) added to the standard chemotherapy regimen for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), an approach authorised by the FDA in 2006, did not lead to notably boost surviva...

Effectiveness of Chemotherapy Drugs Could Improve With Altering Tumor Microenvironment
Altering the interaction between cancer cells and their immediate surroundings could improve the effectiveness of �classical� chemotherapy drugs in treating common cancer, a new study by res...

DNA Repair Pathway Score to Predict Effectiveness of Chemotherapy in Ovarian Cancer Patients
Researchers have developed a DNA repair pathway score that could show whether first-line platinum based chemotherapy can be effective in advanced stage ovarian cancer patients. The study...

Study Finds Chemotherapy Life-Saving for Some Leukemia Patients Who Fail Induction Therapy
Bone marrow transplants are not the best option for some young patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who fail to attain clinical remission after the initial weeks of intense chemo...

Novel Genes Mutated in Stomach Cancer Identified
A team of researchers have discovered hundreds of critical genes that are mutated in stomach cancer. The study, which appears online on April 8, 2012 in Nature Genetics, paves the...

Survival in Sarcoma Patients Predicted by Early PET Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Survival in patients with soft tissue sarcomas can be predicted via an early Positron Emission Tomography (PET) response after the initial cycle of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. These are the fi...

Heart Disease Risk for Asbestos Workers
A British study has revealed that asbestos workers also run a greater danger of heart disease and stroke apart from the already known risk of cancer. Researchers looked into more than 15...

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