The research could help determine which individuals are at greatest risk of
developing lung tumors that may be amenable to a new therapy to inhibit their progression.
Mice that inhaled cumene fumes
developed lung tumors and liver tumors, according to HHS's review.
Not exact matches
Paweletz and his colleagues are now
developing a PCR - based test to detect drug resistance mutations in
lung tumors.
A team of researchers, led by Ross Cagan, PhD,
developed a multi-gene
lung cancer model in the fruit fly Drosophila to better understand the mechanisms that promote
tumors in NSCLC.
Similar to humans, the mice
developed tumors at secondary sites including the liver,
lung, peritoneum, and diaphragm.
Global Cancer Facts and Figures, 2nd Edition, a report released in 2011 by The American Cancer Society, notes that cancers related to changing lifestyles as nations become wealthier, including
lung, breast, and colorectal
tumors, continue to rise in the
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By contrast, 16 out of 17 mice that produced annexin A2 in their cells
developed metastatic
tumors in the liver,
lungs or abdominal cavity.
«We found that many more mice
developed tumors when given the cells that we had engineered to have these stem cell characteristics, and they had a much higher incidence of metastasis in the
lungs,» Kilian said.
The company is also
developing techniques for analyzing other
lung images, and images of cancerous
tumors, to guide treatment using variations of the same technology.
To investigate why checkpoint inhibitors so often stop working, Velculescu; Valsamo Anagnostou, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Kellie N. Smith, Ph.D., a cancer immunology research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and their colleagues at the Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy studied
tumors of four patients with non-small cell
lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who
developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-CTLA4.
Mice injected with breast cancer cells making lots of a long strand of RNA called HOTAIR
developed 10 times as many
lung tumors as controls (left) did.
In one, a liver and armpit
tumor that had
developed from spreading melanoma cells shrank, and in the other a
lung tumor disappeared.
This mouse model
develops primary mammary
tumors that spontaneously metastasize to the
lung (Guy et al., 1992; Lin et al., 2003).
An anti-PD-1 antibody
developed by Bristol - Myers Squibb generates excitement with results from a phase I trial showing that, among 236 patients with various types of cancer, the treatment shrank
tumors in 28 percent of melanoma patients, 30 percent of patients with kidney cancer, and 18 percent of patients with advanced non-small cell
lung cancer.
Li - Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a genetic disorder associated with an increased risk of
developing several forms of cancer, including soft tissue sarcoma, breast cancer, leukemia,
lung cancer, brain
tumors and adrenal gland
tumors.
A
tumor had
developed in Jimmy's mastoid bone, pressing upon his brain, and the cancer spread to one
lung.
It has a high incidence of spontaneous
lung adenomas, and
lung tumors readily
develop in response to carcinogens.
The researchers used a modified virus to insert genetic mutations into cells lining the mice's
lungs, causing the animals to
develop tumors.
Cancer Institute research highlights include innovative studies to
develop individualized approaches for treatment and prevention of
lung cancer; collaboration between medical and materials science researchers to
develop treatments for various types of leukemia using nanotechnology to target only cancer cells; and development of novel therapeutics to treat metastatic melanoma using an approach that regulates the processes leading to
tumor development.
In patients who had their
tumor removed by surgery but did not receive chemotherapy, 80 %
developed new disease in the
lungs and other bones.
The company's initial goal is to identify and deploy therapeutic neo-antigens from individual patients»
tumors to
develop novel treatments for
lung cancer.
Her current focus is on
developing clinical protocols for the treatment of head and neck and
lung cancers with a goal of providing enhanced
tumor control, including control of metastases, with minimal effect of quality of life.
Another recent grant, awarded to Sandra Gollnick, PhD, Director of the Photodynamic Therapy Center, Member of the Department of Cell Stress Biology and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Immunology, will enable the creation of an international registry compiling information about patients» responses to photodynamic therapy (PDT), an approach
developed at Roswell Park that is now used in the treatment of many
lung, esophageal, head and neck, pancreatic, and mesothelioma
tumors.
Most secondary or metastatic
tumors in cats
develop in the
lungs and, in contrast to women, rarely in bones.
Infections in humans do not completely
develop, but may cause a lesion in the
lungs «coin sign» that may be mistaken for a
tumor.
Stage 1: Tiny
tumors may
develop within the lining of a
lung.