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
• http://news.cancerconnect.com/cabozantinib-shows-promise-against-bone-metastases/
  Clinical trial about cabo (also called XL 184) for breast cancer patients when metastases to the bone.  Current trial recruiting
  http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/trial/12-091
  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01441947?term=cabozantinib&cond=%22Breast+Diseases%22&rank=3
• 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/
• https://www.gcmaf.eu/