Scientists looked
at tumour samples and found that the drug penetrates the core of the tumour as well as the surrounding areas which contain smaller numbers of cancerous cells.
Not exact matches
Scientists
at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, analysed 177
tumour samples from patients with stage I non-seminomatous
tumours enrolled in clinical trials through the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit.
In research funded by Sparks charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Cancer Research UK, researchers
at the University of Cambridge have developed a test for blood and cerebrospinal fluid
samples that looks for a specific panel of four pieces of short genetic code known as microRNAs, which are found in greater quantities in malignant germ cell
tumours.
The team looked for the mutation in 98 liver
tumour samples taken
at two hospitals in Taiwan, where Aristolochia is used widely (Science Translational Medicine, doi.org/cfdm).
Doctors will take blood
samples and
tumour biopsies
at intervals up to two months after the injection of TILs.
In the new study, scientists
at King's College London, led by Dr Anita Grigoriadis from the Breast Cancer Now Research Unit
at King's College London, studied lymph node tissue and primary
tumour samples from 309 breast cancer patients, who were treated between 1984 and 2002
at Guy's Hospital London.