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Tumor Targeting
Tumor Targeting: is a cancer treatment that uses drugs.... Targeted therapy works by targeting the cancer's specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival. These genes and proteins are found in cancer cells or in cells related to cancer growth, like blood vessel cells.
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NOV 02, 2015Immunology
B-cell leukemia occurs in 80-85 percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer that ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 02, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
In the battle against cancer, scientists may be one step closer to detonating the tumor base camp, literally. The resear ...NOV 01, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
Gene-targeted and personalized therapy currently exists for a small handful of diseases, but that list may soon include ...SEP 23, 2015Videos
Tumors can begin and grow in our bodies for several reasons. In some cases of skin cancer like melanoma, ultraviolet lig ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 21, 2015Cancer
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a critical role played by an enzyme in cancer and autoimmun ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 20, 2015Cancer
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer helps many men to live longer. The therapy can reduce or block the production of and ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 18, 2015Cancer
Cells can adapt to overcome cancer drugs designed to interfere with their genetic controls, according to a study by Canc ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 17, 2015Neuroscience
Contrary to previous thinking, Alzheimer’s disease consists of three distinct subtypes, according to a UCLA study. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 16, 2015Cancer
Pancreatic cancer stem cells (PancSCs) are virtually addicted to oxygen-based metabolism, and could be “suffocated ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 10, 2015Cancer
A drug-like molecule could prove valuable in cancer research with the potential of developing a new pharmaceutical. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 30, 2015Cancer
While mathematical models are powerful tools for demonstrating how cancer grows and spreads, they have an either/or prob ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 29, 2015Cancer
Viruses can be involved in the development of serious diseases. A case in point is liver cancer, which often develops in ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 29, 2015Cancer
The adage “you are what you eat” just got a little better, especially for those who like purple potatoes. Co ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 28, 2015Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S., is very hard to detect in its early stages. Rarely diagnosed ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 21, 2015Cancer
The University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have been “checking what’s in the bank – the Brisbane Br ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 20, 2015Cancer
There is a new way to look at cancer treatment and a new way to conduct clinical trials for it. Researchers from Memoria ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 20, 2015Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 17, 2015Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 12, 2015Cancer
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a drug candidate that overstimulates proteins critical to tumor ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 06, 2015Cancer
How do tumors grow, and how can they be stopped? A collaborative study between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Neuroscience
Treating an aggressive brain tumor may have come one step closer to reality recently as a company developing a novel the ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 09, 2015Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 06, 2015Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
NOV 02, 2015
Immunology
B-cell leukemia occurs in 80-85 percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 02, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
In the battle against cancer, scientists may be one step closer to detonating the tumor base camp, literally. The resear
...
NOV 01, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
Gene-targeted and personalized therapy currently exists for a small handful of diseases, but that list may soon include
...
SEP 23, 2015
Videos
Tumors can begin and grow in our bodies for several reasons. In some cases of skin cancer like melanoma, ultraviolet lig
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 21, 2015
Cancer
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a critical role played by an enzyme in cancer and autoimmun
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 20, 2015
Cancer
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer helps many men to live longer. The therapy can reduce or block the production of and
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 18, 2015
Cancer
Cells can adapt to overcome cancer drugs designed to interfere with their genetic controls, according to a study by Canc
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 17, 2015
Neuroscience
Contrary to previous thinking, Alzheimer’s disease consists of three distinct subtypes, according to a UCLA study.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 16, 2015
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer stem cells (PancSCs) are virtually addicted to oxygen-based metabolism, and could be “suffocated
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 10, 2015
Cancer
A drug-like molecule could prove valuable in cancer research with the potential of developing a new pharmaceutical.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 30, 2015
Cancer
While mathematical models are powerful tools for demonstrating how cancer grows and spreads, they have an either/or prob
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 29, 2015
Cancer
Viruses can be involved in the development of serious diseases. A case in point is liver cancer, which often develops in
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 29, 2015
Cancer
The adage “you are what you eat” just got a little better, especially for those who like purple potatoes. Co
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 28, 2015
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S., is very hard to detect in its early stages. Rarely diagnosed
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 21, 2015
Cancer
The University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have been “checking what’s in the bank – the Brisbane Br
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Cancer
There is a new way to look at cancer treatment and a new way to conduct clinical trials for it. Researchers from Memoria
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 17, 2015
Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 12, 2015
Cancer
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a drug candidate that overstimulates proteins critical to tumor
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 06, 2015
Cancer
How do tumors grow, and how can they be stopped? A collaborative study between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Neuroscience
Treating an aggressive brain tumor may have come one step closer to reality recently as a company developing a novel the
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 06, 2015
Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider