But Deng says that the lung -
cancer tumours targeted by their trial are not easily accessible.
Not exact matches
Our work suggests that studying PI (3,4) P2 - regulated processes may reveal why PTEN is such a powerful
tumour suppressor and may also help us to identify new therapeutic
targets in PTEN - mutated
cancers.»
«Our results suggest that we've been looking at these
cancer drugs the wrong way — as
tumour -
targeting drugs — instead of what we now feel is their most important biological role: as immune stimulating therapy.»
Breast
cancer patients who have radiotherapy
targeted at the original
tumour site experience fewer side effects five years after treatment than those who have whole breast radiotherapy, and their
cancer is just as unlikely to return, according to trial results published in The Lancet.
This
tumour -
targeting makes it a promising ally in the fight against
cancer.
Cardiff University scientists have developed a novel anti-cancer stem cell agent capable of
targeting aggressive
tumour forming cells common to breast, pancreas, colon and prostate
cancers.
Around 15 per cent of women with breast
cancer have this form of the disease, in which
tumour cells lack the three receptors that most drugs
target.
«Pancreatic
cancer is extremely hard to treat by chemotherapy, so this finding is important because vitamin A
targets the non-cancerous tissue and makes the existing chemotherapy more effective, killing the
cancer cells and shrinking
tumours.
A COMPOUND that slows the proliferation of triple - negative breast
cancer cells in lab tests could lead to the first drugs to
target this aggressive type of
tumour.
A
cancer biologist at the University of Turin in Italy, he had been studying
targeted therapies — drugs tailored to the mutations that drive the growth of a
tumour.
The researchers, at The Institute of
Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, say their test is the first developed for a precision prostate cancer therapy targeted at specific genetic faults within tu
Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, say their test is the first developed for a precision prostate
cancer therapy targeted at specific genetic faults within tu
cancer therapy
targeted at specific genetic faults within
tumours.
Our data show that
cancer cells without BRCA1 have more than one «Achilles heel,» and so there are more ways to
target cancers and therefore to prevent
tumours becoming resistant to treatment.»
Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying Aurora kinase - overexpressing
tumours will help in the design of
targeted and personalised
cancer therapy,» said Dr Linda Chuang, Senior Research Scientist at CSI Singapore, who is the first author of the study.
If these could be
targeted to
tumours — by attaching them to antibodies that recognise
cancer cells, for instance — it would then be possible to destroy the malignant cells» DNA using lower doses of radiation or drugs.
Targeting the
tumour blood supply seems to be a promising way to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy in cervical
cancer, Symonds says.
«MCL - 1 is found at high levels in a number of blood
cancers and also many solid
tumours, so there has been a strong drive to develop potential anti-cancer compounds that
target MCL - 1,» he said.
Research fields are diverse, including basic research on cell proliferation, analysis of
tumour cells and tissues to detect gene mutations, and identification of potential therapeutic
targets in
cancer.
Although it might be useful to reduce that collateral damage for some applications, he says it could prove beneficial in others — in a
cancer treatment, for example, wiping out «bystander» RNA as well as
target RNA might offer a more effective way to fight a
tumour.
A trained robotic surgeon experienced in the treatment of prostate, bladder and kidney
cancer, Assoc Prof Chia said, «For anticancer drugs to achieve their best effectiveness, they need to penetrate into the
tumour efficiently in order to reach the cystoplasm of all the
cancer cells that are being
targeted without affecting the normal cells.
«This is because the stress led to poor function against the
cancer by T - cells, which are very important in the immune system's control and surveillance of
tumours and are a major
target in many immunotherapy treatments.»
TNBC is deadly because, unlike other types of breast
cancers such as estrogen receptor (ER) positive or HER2 amplified breast
tumours which have effective
targeted therapy, TNBC
tumours do not respond to
targeted therapy.
The virus, code - named JX - 954,
targets two genes involved in
cancer cell growth and blood supply, which show increased activity in
tumours.
In the future, scientists hope to
target stem - cell - like cells within
cancers that may be responsible for most of the growth of some
tumours, and evade existing drugs.
Angiogenesis inhibition is commonly
targeted in
cancer treatment development that aims to starve
tumours of the nutrients necessary for their survival.
It could also lead to the development of new breast
cancer drugs to
target tumours with a specific genetic make - up.
Researchers are studying how to use
tumour - specific neoantigens in vaccines to help the body mount an immune response
targeted at the
cancer.
These drugs can be
targeted to interfere with signalling within the
tumour microenvironment or activate other processes which will kill the
cancer cells.
Meguro, Japan (Scicasts)-
Tumour detection using
targeted fluorescent imaging probes is a promising technology that takes advantage of specific molecular events occurring in
cancer tissues.
We
target tumours by exploring how the proteins found on the
cancer cell surface can be utilised to inhibit growth or kill
tumours.
My team is investigating the utility of Jak inhibitors to
target colorectal
tumours and the role of DCLK1 as a driver of gastric
cancer.
Willet, Mills, and their colleagues believe the discovery that cells in different organs go through the same process to become proliferative could lead to new potential
targets for
cancer treatment because the factors that initiate
tumours could be the same in multiple organs.
Our research combines diverse techniques ranging from genomics, computational biology,
tumour imaging, in vitro and in vivo functional models to study biological and clinical phenotypes.The proteins produced by these genes may serve as
targets for novel chemotherapy drugs and other
cancer treatments, or imaging scans.
We have identified a novel amino acid transporter, SLC6A14, as a drug
target for
cancer treatment; this transporter has functional features superior to those of SLC1A5, SLC7A5 and SLC7A11 to support
tumour growth.
Targeting CTCs, the cells responsible for spreading
cancer, is important because they carry information from the primary
tumour that can inform treatment; however, they are outnumbered by a billion - to - one by normal cells in a patient» blood and are therefore extremely challenging to capture.
Despite these successes two major problems remain: first, the majority of lung
cancer patients have
tumours without mutations in targetable genes and; second, all patients eventually develop resistance to treatment with these
targeted agents.
Areas of focus include: understanding how
tumour - reactive T cells and B cells promote patient survival in
cancer; defining the effects of standard treatments on tumor immunity; and using genomic approaches to identify novel
tumour mutations that can serve as
target antigens for immunotherapy.
Several studies have demonstrated the feasibility of molecular screening of
tumour samples for matching patients with
cancer to
targeted therapies.
The increasing number of drugs
targeting specific proteins implicated in tumourigenesis and the commercial promotion of relatively affordable genome - wide analyses has led to an increasing expectation among patients with
cancer that they can now receive effective personalised treatment based on the often complex genomic signature of their
tumour.
Within the scope of personalized medicine, this technology presents immense possibilities for testing patient - derived multicellular
tumour spheroids / organoids (comprising
cancer cells, stromal cells,
cancer stem cells and / or immune cells) for disease / biomarker - oriented drug activity and profiling using single - and pair-wise standard /
targeted drug combinations.
Homozygous deletions are rare in
cancers and often
target tumour suppressor genes.
iTeos is focused on expanding the benefits of immunotherapy for
cancer patients by developing a proprietary pipeline
targeting IDO1, A2A, TIGIT immune checkpoint and non-immunogenic («cold»)
tumours.