BCM: Baylor College of Medicine
Graciela Gutierrez
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HOUSTON -- (December 31, 2009) -- When combined, a virus that targets cancer cells and a commonly used cancer drug have been found to significantly extend the life expectancy and shrink the tumor of rats carrying malignant gliomas, an aggressive brain tumor, say researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and McGill University in Montreal.
A retrospective analysis of patients treated for pediatric cancers indicated that Ewing’s sarcoma and astrocytoma were the types most likely to recur within 20 years.
Researchers reviewed data collected on 12,795 patients, of whom 806 experienced recurrence five or more years after diagnosis. The median age at original diagnosis was 8.3 years; it was 26 years at follow-up. Most late recurrences occurred five to 10 years following...
Data From Ongoing Phase 2 Trial Consistent with Survival Outcome Reported in Earlier Phase I Trial
October 26, 2009 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antigenics (NASDAQ: AGEN) today announced that the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has presented an update on a Phase 2 clinical trial of Oncophage (vitespen) for recurrent high grade glioma (brain cancer) at the 2009 Joint Meeting of SNO...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite theories to the contrary, adults who eat a lot of meat may not have a heightened risk of the most common type of malignant brain tumor, a new study finds.
The study, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, looked at the potential link between brain tumors called gliomas and people's intake of meat and compounds called nitrosamines.
(CNN) -- Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77.
"We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," a family statement said. "We thank everyone who...
