The researchers believe that
effective cancer therapy in the future will require the combined action of drugs that target both the tumor and its adaptive responses to initial therapies.
Not exact matches
One setback for these
therapies which use the body's immune system to fight
cancers is that they are, at times, more
effective in certain patient pools than others.
To be
effective and reduce recurrence of
cancer in the prostate, researchers found that prescribing PARP inhibitors, a drug commonly used
in breast
cancer, alongside anti-hormone
therapy treatment may benefit men with prostate
cancer.
The researchers confirmed some of these findings by analyzing how
effective radiation
therapy was
in 29 colon
cancer tumors that metastasized to either the liver or lung.
On its own, this immune response had no immediate effect
in the fight against the utilized breast tumors, but
in combination with the ADC it proved itself
effective in attacking
cancer cells
in mice, resulting
in the complete cure of the majority of mice receiving the combination
therapy.
RADIATION
therapy to treat
cancer is more
effective in some people than others.
Frequent, low - dose chemotherapy regimens avoid this effect and may therefore be more
effective at treating certain types of breast and pancreatic
cancer, according to the murine study «Metronomic chemotherapy prevents
therapy - induced stromal activation and induction of tumor - initiating cells,» which will be published online November 23
in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.
«We found that the protein isoforms expressed
in African Americans with prostate
cancer do not always respond to targeted
therapies, whereas these drugs were found to be
effective in European Americans with prostate
cancer and do end up killing off the
cancer,» said Lee.
«While immune checkpoint blockade
therapy is
effective in many
cancers, it has been less successful for this particular form of prostate
cancer, which has motivated a search for targeted
therapies that overcome this resistance.»
Researchers have designed a nanoparticle - based
therapy that is
effective in treating mice with multiple myeloma, a
cancer of immune cells
in the bone marrow.
«It is expected that this study will lay the foundation for developing a new class of potent and
effective cancer therapies and the development of reagents targeting epigenetic events
in immune - mediated diseases as well as other epigenetically - influenced diseases,» said Alani, who also is chief of dermatology at Boston Medical Center.
«Genes may cause tumor aggressiveness, drug resistance
in African - American prostate
cancer: Research found many targeted
therapies for prostate
cancer may not be
effective against tumors
in African - American men.»
The study, «AKR1B1 promotes basal - like breast
cancer progression by a positive feedback loop that activates the EMT program,» which has been published
in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that an inhibitor of this enzyme currently used to treat diabetes patients could be an
effective therapy for this frequently deadly form of
cancer.
They have had several successes
in identifying pro-metastasis microRNAs skin
cancers and anti-metastatic microRNAs
in breast
cancer, discoveries that could
in the future lead to new, more
effective therapies.
«One criticism of the PARP drugs is they are not active
in patients who have developed resistance to other
therapies, but we found veliparib appears to be
effective in some platinum - resistant patients with recurrent or persistent disease,» said Robert L. Coleman, MD, lead author of the study and professor and vice chair of clinical research at the University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center, Houston.
«What most of these
cancers all have
in common is cadherin - 11 and a poor prognosis, with no
effective therapies,» Byers says.
Therefore, safer therapeutic
therapies that are more
effective are being sought for this deadly type of
cancer in women.»
«Research into basic workings of immune system points to way of improving
therapies for
cancer: Differences
in wiring of «exhausted» and
effective T cells indicate possible gene - editing targets.»
«By helping us understand that lower levels of RNF125 confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors, we have a new strategy to stratify patients for currently approved
therapy versus participation for human clinical trials to investigate whether targeting JAK1 will be more
effective in patients whose tumors exhibit reduced RNF125,» said Keith T. Flaherty, M.D., associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and director of Developmental Therapeutics,
Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-author of the study.
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), once considered an
effective yet risky alternative to drug
therapy for blood
cancer, has become more accessible and successful
in a wide range of patients as a result of major advances
in transplant strategies and technologies.
This webinar is the third
in a series focusing on the
cancer pathways that support tumor development, the emerging research
in identifying and targeting these pathways, and innovations
in the development of increasingly
effective cancer therapy options.
This webinar is the second
in a series (see Part 1 here) focusing on the
cancer pathways that support tumor development, the emerging research
in identifying and targeting these pathways, and innovations
in the development of increasingly
effective cancer therapy options.
Gene
therapy within the next decade or so is not going to prove very
effective in eliminating solid
cancers such as lung, breast, prostate, colon and so on.
While initially
effective at treating the disease, the drugs fail to prevent relapse
in nearly all patients because of residual
cancer cells that escape
therapy.
In the
Cancer Cell article, the researchers describe how various anticancer drugs, including cisplatin and the targeted
therapy vemurafenib, which targets melanomas with the BRAF mutation, become more
effective when co-delivered with phenformin.
A highly targeted
cancer radiation
therapy may offer a safe and
effective treatment option for elderly pancreatic
cancer patients unable to undergo surgery or combined chemotherapy and radiation
therapy, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital
in Detroit.
When the researchers removed FAK from blood vessels that grew
in melanoma or lung
cancer models, both chemotherapy and radiation
therapies were far more
effective in killing the tumors.
And while new
therapies have been
effective in releasing the immune system's restraints to unleash the body's own
cancer - fighting powers, they only work
in about half of melanoma patients and often lose their potency as the
cancer develops resistance.
A new study published
in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, describes a new concept of how these two
cancers may evolve
in a similar way and may eventually lead to more
effective therapies for both.
Last week, Lin Zhang, MD, an associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, described
in Science Translational Medicine, how his team treated
therapy resistant
cancer cells to renew their sensitivity to PARP inhibitors, a class of drugs that, when
effective, prevent
cancer cells from keeping up with DNA repair, causing them to eventually die.
The successful combination of these two
therapies results
in the growth of specialized vessels that deliver
cancer - fighting immune cells to the tumor, potentially leading to more
effective treatments and longer survival periods.
Therapies that prevent tumor blood vessel growth are often used
in clinics to fight
cancer — but they are only
effective in a particular subset of patients.
If it proves as
effective in people as it is
in mice, a vaccine could one day be given to
cancer patients after surgery, radiation
therapy, or chemotherapy to prevent tumors from regrowing.
«Since doxorubicin is one of the cheapest drugs that is
effective against many types of
cancer but rarely used
in colon
cancer, the combination
therapy could be highly
effective in combating colon
cancer while drastically lowering risk of cardiotoxic side effects.»
«Knowing more about why
cancer rates differ between males and females will help us understand basic mechanisms
in cancer, seek more
effective therapies and perform more informative clinical trials.»
The
therapy, reported
in the Aug. 17 issue of Nature Communications, offers the hope of an
effective treatment for intractable metastatic
cancers including those of the colon and lung.
As nanotechnology to ferry drugs to their destinations is tested
in both the laboratory and
in clinical trials, scientists have made a surprising discovery about the kinds of nanoparticles that might be most
effective for eventually transporting a number of different
cancer - fighting
therapies throughout the body.
Researchers at Norris Cotton
Cancer Center have found an antibody that may be used in future treatments for recurrent small - cell lung cancer, which currently has no effective th
Cancer Center have found an antibody that may be used
in future treatments for recurrent small - cell lung
cancer, which currently has no effective th
cancer, which currently has no
effective therapy.
«We urgently need markers to predict which
therapies are going to be
effective and which will not be
effective in individual patients with advanced prostate
cancer,» said lead study author Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD, an assistant professor of oncology and urology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md. «AR - V7 testing may be extremely valuable in guiding treatment decisions for men with hormone - resistant disease in the near future.&
cancer,» said lead study author Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD, an assistant professor of oncology and urology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive
Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md. «AR - V7 testing may be extremely valuable in guiding treatment decisions for men with hormone - resistant disease in the near future.&
Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
in Baltimore, Md. «AR - V7 testing may be extremely valuable
in guiding treatment decisions for men with hormone - resistant disease
in the near future.»
In further studies, they plan to explore the role of autophagy in immune reactions toward other tumor cell types, to determine whether such therapies might be effective in a broad range of cancer
In further studies, they plan to explore the role of autophagy
in immune reactions toward other tumor cell types, to determine whether such therapies might be effective in a broad range of cancer
in immune reactions toward other tumor cell types, to determine whether such
therapies might be
effective in a broad range of cancer
in a broad range of
cancers.
New studies from the Abramson
Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania are providing fresh clues on potentially effective combinations with CAR T therapy in brain cancer as well as a novel therapeutic target in head and neck cancer, and also providing greater understanding of the mechanisms of resistance in pancreatic c
Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania are providing fresh clues on potentially
effective combinations with CAR T
therapy in brain
cancer as well as a novel therapeutic target in head and neck cancer, and also providing greater understanding of the mechanisms of resistance in pancreatic c
cancer as well as a novel therapeutic target
in head and neck
cancer, and also providing greater understanding of the mechanisms of resistance in pancreatic c
cancer, and also providing greater understanding of the mechanisms of resistance
in pancreatic
cancercancer.
Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy do prolong survival by several months, but targeted
therapies, which have been
effective with other forms of
cancer, have not lengthened survival
in patients fighting glioblastoma.
The poor survival
in advanced ovarian
cancer is due both to late diagnosis, as well as to the lack of
effective second - line
therapy for patients who relapse.
Our current work focuses on determining the role of the PI5P4K enzymes
in p53 deficient
cancers, especially the triple negative breast
cancer subgroup where targeted
therapies have not been
effective.
Penn Medicine's Hematologic Malignancies Translational Center of Excellence seeks to redefine the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to blood
cancers in order to provide more
effective targeted
therapies.
Dual HER2 blockade with lapatinib and trastuzumab plus AI
therapy was more
effective than trastuzumab plus AI alone
in HER2 +, HR + metastatic breast
cancer.
Precision medicine uses the genetics of disease to identify
effective therapies, and, thanks
in large part to NCI - supported research, we know that
cancer is a disease of the genome.
Additional insight into the biology of ER - positive breast
cancers, particularly the higher risk luminal B
cancers, could aid
in identifying potential targets and new,
effective therapies.
The findings, reported February 12
in Nature Cell Biology, suggest that drugs that hinder the ability of the enzyme to command cellular activity might prove
effective as lung
cancer therapies.
Dr. Mucke expects that an
effective Alzheimer's solution will include multiple
therapies to address the numerous proteins implicated
in the disease — including amyloid - beta, apoE4 and tau —
in much the same way that hypertension,
cancer and severe infections often require treatment with combinations of different remedies.