Tag Archives: cancer_therapies

New Insight Into Why Some Cancer Treatments Are Ineffective

April 11, 2007 – 8:00 am

Science Daily — Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have uncovered a new way by which common mutants of a critical human tumor-suppressing gene can promote tumor progression, a finding which may explain why some cancer treatments targeting human cancers with these mutants have proven ineffective.
Their discovery, detailed in a paper published in […]

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Study Shows Treatment May Cause Cancer to Spread

April 11, 2007 – 7:59 am

A new US study reports that a treatment-induced growth factor called TGF-beta helps contribute to the spread of advanced cancer.
Anti-tumor therapies work only partially or not at all in patients with advanced cancer, and tumors keep growing after treatment according to a research team at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tenn.
The research team, led by […]

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Cell Growth Factor Promotes Cancer’s Spread

April 7, 2007 – 3:00 am

FRIDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) — A treatment-induced growth factor called TGF-beta contributes to the progression of advanced cancer, U.S. researchers report.
In patients with advanced cancer, anti-tumor therapies work only partially or not at all, and tumors continue to grow following treatment, says a team at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tenn.

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