Not exact matches
Human tumor cells (red) growing in a zebrafish embryo may
help doctors choose how to treat
cancer patients.
«Next steps are to further explore this possibility in
human trials in order to assess if it will
help patients, but these two drugs make sense from a variety of studies and we find that they act together through multiple mechanisms to control
cancer growth in the laboratory.»
«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.
Mouse genes that make
human T cells powerful at fighting liver
cancer could one day
help patients do the same, scientists report.
Human Performance and Engineering (Research) to help conduct research activities for several projects in human movement and rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and cancer pati
Human Performance and Engineering (Research) to
help conduct research activities for several projects in
human movement and rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and cancer pati
human movement and rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and
cancer patients.
«Our canine companions are not only man's best friend, but our study shows that dogs also can
help human patients pursue battles against various types of
cancer,» says Jeffrey Trent, Translational Genomics Research Institute president and research director and the study's senior author, in a release about the study.
Importantly, however, we don't view our dog
patients as test subjects for
cancer research, but they can
help us to better understand breast carcinoma in both dogs and
humans and fight it more effectively.»
If the drug proves successful in
humans, the researchers hope that it could
help patients with this kind of lung
cancer to live longer.