The scientific goal of the Developmental Cancer Therapeutics Program is to discover and characterize unique agents and pathways that will impact the development of
more effective cancer therapies and to translate these discoveries into clinical applications by using proof - of - principle, early phase clinical and correlative science studies.
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.
RADIATION
therapy to treat
cancer is
more effective in some people than others.
The research suggests that immune
therapy for
cancer might be
more effective if combined with drugs that inhibit NF - kB.
«We propose that highly specific ME3 inhibitors could provide an
effective therapy for many
cancer patients, but
more research must be done.»
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.
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.
«RYBP would make
cancer cells
more sensitive to DNA damage, which would make chemo or radiation
therapy more effective,» said Mohammad Ali, a postdoctoral fellow and the lead author of the study.
Therefore, safer therapeutic
therapies that are
more effective are being sought for this deadly type of
cancer in women.»
«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.
«If immune cell
therapies for
cancer or autoimmune diseases (like rheumatoid arthritis, for example) are going to be safe and
effective alternatives to
more traditional medications, we must gain control over the activity of the cells to reduce risks of toxicity to the patient,» said Roybal.
The researchers are now looking at how ICOS signals can be altered to diminish autoimmune disorders and augmented for
more effective vaccine development, and are beginning research on how ICOS signaling may benefit Chimeric Antigen Receptor - T cell (CAR - T)
therapies, which involves engineering of patient's own immune cells to recognize and attack their
cancers.
«Combination
therapy may be
more effective against the most common ovarian
cancer.»
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.
«This breakthrough could lead to
more effective therapies for women with this very common subtype of breast
cancer and be the therapeutic target that the drug companies have been waiting for.»
«Understanding how
cancers suppress the immune system is the key to identifying
more effective immuno -
therapies,» said Brent Hanks, M.D., Ph.D., at Duke and senior author of the study.
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.
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.
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.
Researchers have now found a way to map those alternate routes by studying individual
cancer cells, suggesting approaches for developing
more effective combination
therapies.
«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.»
«If you were to compromise the altered physiology of tumors with something like RHT, the
cancer cells are going to be less able to tolerate other therapeutic insults, and that probably would give you
more effective therapies.
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.
Martin Carroll, MD and Edward Stadtmauer, MD are leading efforts at this TCE to redefine the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to blood
cancers — including leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma — and provide
more effective targeted
therapies.
The Hematologic Malignancies Translational Center of Excellence (TCE) is a multidisciplinary center that seeks to redefine the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to blood
cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, and 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.
He continues to investigate and optimize CAR T cell
therapy, to make it
more effective not only for blood
cancers, but also to help patients with other types of
cancer.
Our surgical oncologists provide the highest - quality
cancer care to diagnose and remove tumors, debulk tumors to help make chemotherapy or radiation
therapy more effective, and relieve symptoms or side effects of
therapies.
The tests are based on research conducted by Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) investigators — and could pave the way for a
more precise approach to
cancer therapy and help find
effective drugs when conventional approaches to precision medicine have failed.
The goal is to use these tools to gain a deeper understanding of the disease processes in
cancer, diabetes, heart disease and mental health, and ultimately to try and find safer and
more effective ways of using stem cells in medical research and
therapy.
An unusual observation by Hopkins scientists about how testosterone affects prostate
cancer cells may lead to
more effective radiation
therapy in men with high - risk disease.
This will create strong synergy for a unified, multidimensional project aimed at generating
more effective CAR T cells
therapy for pancreatic
cancer patients, with potential broad implications for immunotherapy directed toward other
cancers.
The co-delivery of small molecular drugs with nucleic acids can improve gene transfection efficiency, reduce side - effects of these drugs, and achieve the synergistic effect of drug and gene
therapy for the
more effective treatment of
cancer.
Although recently approved
therapies can increase progression - free survival by a few months, «we think this novel screening system has the potential to uncover new,
more effective medications that could be targeted
more specifically at a patient's
cancer,» Lengyel said.
We need to accelerate the pace at which we develop an early detection blood test for pancreatic
cancer and
more effective therapies.
Located within the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, immediately adjacent to Roswell Park laboratories and research support facilities, the company will create employment opportunities within the life sciences and develop new
therapies designed to give
cancer patients better,
more effective treatment options.
I was told that he had developed a non-toxic
therapy that was
more effective than chemo or radiation on even the most aggressive
cancers.
I find this line of research quite exciting as it suggests less toxic, yet
more effective future
cancer therapies.
Iodine has been shown to be an
effective therapy for such conditions as breast and uterine fibroids, breast
cancer, and
more.
We need not necessarily have to go into nutritional ketosis, although some people are healthier doing so, and as an
effective cancer therapy it is becoming
more popular.
Studies show fish oil can make conventional
cancer drugs
more effective and provides an
effective therapy on its own.
Serving 2,000 patients a day, the JCCC is a major source of discovery of the nature of
cancer and of the development of
more effective approaches to
cancer prevention, diagnosis, and
therapy.
The advantages for a dog participating in a clinical trial are that the dog is receiving treatment that is expected to be as
effective or
more effective than standard
therapies, the dog is helping veterinarians learn important information that is expected to help other dogs and even humans with bladder
cancer, and the dog is receiving some «hope» if standard
therapy has failed.
The goal of a surgical intervention in
cancer treatment is to remove or reduce the primary cancerous tumor and allow either chemotherapy or radiation
therapy to be
more effective.