* Stock could double, or plunge, depending on EU decision
* Monthly meeting of drugs agency experts concludes Dec 17
* Investors also awaiting news on Basilea antibiotic
By Ben Hirschler
LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Shares in British biotech company Ark Therapeutics (AKT.L) could more than double if European regulators give its leading drug a green light at a meeting this week -- but many in the market...
AJHO: The American Journal of Hematology/Oncology
Tasheema Prince
December 08, 2009
Physical activity early on in life may be linked to a decreased risk of brain cancer in adulthood, according to a study published in Cancer Research (2009;69[21]:8349-55).
To help researchers better understand glioma, a rare but often deadly form of brain cancer, and the potentially modifiable lifestyle factors that could be important in preventing the disease, Steven Moore,...
Scientists have discovered oncogenes capable of driving growth of normal human brain stem cells in a highly malignant pediatric brain tumor. The research, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the journal Cancer Cell, has significant implications for clinical management of aggressive pediatric brain tumors that are notorious...
ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2009) — There was no substantial change in brain tumor incidence among adults 5 to 10 years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication published online December 3 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Although cell phone use has been proposed as a risk factor for brain tumors, a biological mechanism to explain this association is not known.
Isabelle Deltour, Ph.D., of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology,...
ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2009) — Duke University Medical Center researchers have figured out how stem cells in the malignant brain cancer glioma may be better able to resist radiation therapy. And using a drug to block a particular signaling pathway in these cancer stem cells, they were able to kill many more glioma cells with radiation in a laboratory experiment.
The work builds off earlier research which showed that cancer stem cells resist the effects of radiation much better than other...
