Monday, November 18, 2013

New things in the marketplace

I pulled this from a post I did on my lotsa helping hands site. There is a mix of research and good reads. 
  • Survival of stage-4 breast cancer patients improves with stem cell treatment, study finds at stanford school of medicine-“Most people in the oncology community feel that this issue is a done deal, that high-dose chemotherapy does not work for patients with breast cancer,” said associate professor of medicine,Judith Shizuru, MD, PhD. “But our study suggests that the high-dose therapy strategy can be modified to include the use of cancer-free purified blood stem cells to yield better overall outcomes in women with advanced breast cancer.”
  • Cells have been treated with nanometre-sized particles (nanocarriers) carrying the anticancer drug doxorubicin. http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org/2014/breast-cancer-treatment
  • Book- Radical Remission- by Kelly A. Turner
  • Book- Anticancer, a new way of life
  • Alpha Lipoic Acid helps neuropathy
  • www.tahomaclinic.com
  • Cannabis Theraputics- http://thecuretocancersummit.com/spotlight-constance/inf_contact_key=feb6a87d6a4a2ba4e768748af4bec8fc8d678bcc82cf9c9c8f5078006fc6d984
  • Immunology
  • Clinical trial about cabo (also called XL 184) for breast cancer patients when metastases to the bone.  Current trial recruiting
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. initiated a phase-I clinical trial this week of its DNA-based immunotherapy in cancer patients. Phase-I studies are the first time a new drug candidate is tested in humans."The next great wave of oncology advancements will be treatments which empower the patient's own immune system to seek and destroy cancer," http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/health-care/2014/12/inovio-begin-human-testing-of-cancer-therapy.html?ana=yahoo
  • For you triple negative girls out there. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-toughest-breast-cancer-met.html
  • Olapariv shows success in tumor response rate for patients with BRCA related cancers
  • University of Michigan weighs in on Mastectomy debate http://www.mcancer.org/giving/contact-us/mcancernews/fall-2014/u-m-experts-weigh-double-mastectomy-debate
  • http://www.vanguardcancerfoundation.org/about-me/

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