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Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

MEG TIRRELL, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Since they were approved in 2014, drugs that stimulate the immune system have been giving new hope to patients with melanoma, kidney cancer, lymphoma and other cancers, including famously to President Jimmy Carter, who credited the drug called Keytruda with shrinking tumors that had spread to his brain.

At a time when individual tribulations seem to have grown with increasingly difficult economic times, it's no wonder that the ballroom was filled with at least 200 people from as far as New York, New Jersey and Virginia, many with testimonies of being cured of ailments from chronic sinus issues and financial woes, to smoking cessation and the disappearance of tumors.

Researchers have injected mice with human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors, and their new drug has killed the tumors every time.

These discoveries were made by oncologist Dr. Michael Kühn from the Department of Internal Medicine III, which is a part of the University Center for Tumor Diseases (UCT) at the Mainz University Medical Center, in a collaborative effort with researchers from the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Harvard University in Boston.

Unlike conventional chemotherapies and radiation that indiscriminately eradicate fast - growing tissues and ravage people's bodies with side effects, new therapies specifically target tumors using tailored cells from individual patients.

Similarly, it may be possible to identify and validate new targets for drugs that would selectively kill tumor cells with a particular molecular context.

For some years now, a new class of drugs called antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) have been used, which work in two ways: they consist of an antibody that binds selectively to the tumor cell receptor and interrupts the signal to propagate; they also act as a transport vehicle for a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department of Radiology at the New York School of Medicine, the study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a treatment algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Traditional genetic approaches together with the new wealth of genomic information for both human and model organisms open up strategies by which drugs can be profiled for their ability to selectively kill cells in a molecular context that matches those found in tumors.

An old idea of retreating lung tumors with radiation is new again, especially with the technological advances seen in radiation oncology over the last decade.

Looking to target a key pathway in order to interfere with the processes that lead to tumor spread, a research team led by Irwin H. Gelman, Ph.D., of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has identified a new suppressor of cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid tumors.

But following the removal of the primary tumor, micrometastatic cells learn to communicate with cells in their new microenvironment in the brain — cells which are, at first, hostile to them.

That's because hospitals are equipped with powerful new scanning machines primarily used to identify tumors, ballooning blood vessels, bone fractures, and a wide range of disorders in people.

Dr. Del Maestro adds, «Yong and colleagues at the University of Calgary have begun to unravel the complex interaction of the microglia with the brain tumor cells, resulting not only in furthering our understanding, but providing a new concept and drug which can now be immediately assessed in clinical trials.»

Different changes to the microbial community of the stomach may explain why related conditions are associated with different risk levels and types of gastric tumor, according to a new study in PLOS Pathogens.

Finding new treatments is critical because less than 5 percent of patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors respond to everolimus, the most commonly used pharmaceutical, François said.

«For example, it is conceivable to deep - freeze a human tumor immediately after surgical removal and to precisely determine its biological and pathophysiological profile with the new method,» explains Pichler.

Maria Zajac - Kaye, Ph.D., an associate professor in the College of Medicine's department of anatomy and cell biology, and Rony François, an M.D. / Ph.D. student who works with her, found a new drug combination that inhibits one form of pancreatic cancer tumor and kills its cells.

«When cancer comes back, it's genetically very similar to the original tumor but often with additional mutations that may give cancer cells new strategies to survive attack by whatever drugs are thrown at them.

When that common pathway was blocked with a new drug, mTOR inhibitor, in addition to continuing the optimized therapies, resistance was effectively turned off, and the tumors resumed shrinking.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have shown that a new targeted treatment could benefit patients with certain pancreatic tumors by preventing spread of the cancer and protecting their heart from damage — a direct result of the tumor.

Comparing the metastasized tumors with the original breast tumors, the researchers were surprised to learn that multiple, slightly genetically different cells from the original site had broken away together and established the new tumors.

Although the link to brain tumors remains inconclusive, the new work suggests cell phones may indeed be messing with our minds.

Interphone compared surveyed cell phone use in 6,420 people with brain tumors to that of 7,658 healthy people in 13 developed countries — Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the U.K. — to try to determine whether people with brain tumors had used their cell phones more than healthy people, an association that might suggest that cell phones caused the tumors.

The ambitious plan was to create a new shared resource of tumor samples with attached patient information.

In a new study, a team found that injecting mice with tiny magnets and cranking up the heat eliminated tumors from the animals» bodies with no apparent side effects.

Now a team of researchers in China has developed a new microfluidic chip that can quickly and efficiently segregate and capture live circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from a patient's blood, with potential applications for cancer screenings and treatment assessments.

«Thanks to a deeper understanding of cancer biology, we have a potential new targeted therapy for multiple myeloma, and can better tailor treatment for kids with Wilms tumor.

A randomized phase III trial finding that a new monoclonal antibody, elotuzumab, added to standard therapy, extended the duration of remission for patients with relapsed multiple myeloma by about five months Findings from two phase III studies showing that children with Wilms tumor who have a specific chromosomal abnormality do better with a more intensive, augmented chemotherapy regimen

«New paradigm for treating «inflammaging» and cancer: Intermittent dosing with rapamycin breaks inflammatory loop that fuels tumor relapse, age - related diseases.»

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

Sharma had developed a new method for studying how tumors with different characteristics respond to different immunotherapies: She would treat patients before their growths were surgically removed, then analyze the tissue in her lab.

«We expect that our new method will become an attractive tool to study energy requirements of living systems with subcellular resolution,» says Min, «especially in brain and malignant tumors that are in high demand of energy.»

Now, thanks to the new mouse model, it will be possible to study how renal tumors are able to develop in an environment with a normal immune system, and how cancer cells manage to evade the immune system's attacks.

Women who have high levels of both testosterone and estrogen in midlife may face a greater risk of developing benign tumors on the uterus called uterine fibroids than women with low levels of the hormones, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Advances such as a new understanding of cancer as a genomic disease and successes with immunotherapy — harnessing the immune system to thwart tumors — mean that «the time is right for a renewed surge against cancer,» they write.

New technologies are coming to the fore that allow interrogation of the types of cells interacting with tumors, in particular providing intelligence on the broad variety of complex associations between tumor cells and the immune system.

He told Schmidt that he'd welcome an app — «for your iPhone or whatever the new Google one is» — that could help him the next time he sees a patient diagnosed with a rare renal tumor.

Their findings, published in Nature Medicine, bring new hope to children with this devastating brain tumor.

Many tumors spread: Single cancer cells migrate with blood flow through the body before they settle in new tissue.

In any race to defeat cancer with a new drug, it is always wise to bet on the tumor rather than the drug.

During the last three years the Spanish Consortium for the Study of the Genome of the Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia, where the researchers of the present study already collaborate, has sequenced the genome of hundreds of patients with the more common leukemia in our society, identifying new mechanisms of tumor progression and new therapeutic targets.

This new approach to classifying ovarian tumors can help doctors make the right management decisions, which will improve the outcome for women with cancer.

A new study, published online in Pediatric Neurology, evaluated children with TSC, which causes malformations and tumors in the brain and other vital organs and has a high prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

As these compounds are already approved for clinical trails in pediatric brain tumors, these findings suggest that drugs inhibiting MEK activity could offer a new therapy option for children with these devastating tumors.

In a study published today in the British Medical Journal, an international team led by Imperial College London and KU Leuven, Belgium describe a new test, called ADNEX, which can discriminate between benign and malignant tumors, and identify different types of malignant tumor, with a high level of accuracy.

«With this new approach, we can navigate through millions of important brain fibers and tracts to access deep areas of the brain where these benign tumors or hemorrhages are located with minimal injury to normal brain,» said BrWith this new approach, we can navigate through millions of important brain fibers and tracts to access deep areas of the brain where these benign tumors or hemorrhages are located with minimal injury to normal brain,» said Brwith minimal injury to normal brain,» said Britz.

Deadly brain tumors called high - grade gliomas grow with the help of nerve activity in the cerebral cortex, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

New research out of the University of Michigan supports combining two approaches to fight back against gliomas: attacking the tumor with gene therapy while enhancing the immune system's ability to fight it, too.