Radiotherapy Chemotherapy Articles & Analysis
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Badhey, MD, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and lead author, stated, “We understand that SCC patients with positive margins after initial surgery are known to have increased risk of local recurrence, poorer rates of progression-free survival, and a need for adjuvant treatments such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy ...
A novel RNA-based IL-2 treatment response classifier was developed as part of the study in patients with renal cell carcinoma Durham, NC, August 23, 2022 – GeneCentric Therapeutics, a company making precision medicine more precise through RNA-based diagnostics, announced its new publication in Cancer Research Communications that compares the immunogenomic response profiles to anti-PD-(L)1 ...
Cancer stem cells are a small sub-population of cells within a tumour with the ability to self-renew, differentiate into the many cell types of a tumour, initiate new tumours, and resist chemotherapy and radiotherapy (leading to relapses). By targeting cancer stem cells, it is hoped that this therapy will reduce the tumour’s ability to generate new cancer ...
(Nasdaq: GRTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing a pipeline of novel, proprietary therapeutics that have the potential to transform radiotherapy in cancer, today announced topline results from the six-week, Phase 2a, open-label, single-arm AESOP trial of avasopasem evaluating its ability to reduce the incidence of severe acute ...
Cancer stem cells are a small sub-population of cells within a tumour with the ability to self-renew, differentiate into the many cell types of a tumour, initiate new tumours, and resist chemotherapy and radiotherapy (leading to relapses). By targeting cancer stem cells, it is hoped that this therapy will reduce the tumour’s ability to generate new cancer ...
Cancer stem cells are a small sub-population of cells within a tumour with the ability to self-renew, differentiate into the many cell types of a tumour, initiate new tumours, and resist chemotherapy and radiotherapy (leading to relapses). By targeting cancer stem cells, it is hoped that this therapy will reduce the tumour’s ability to generate new cancer ...
DURHAM, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– GeneCentric Therapeutics, a company making precision medicine more precise through RNA-based diagnostics, announced today the upcoming oral presentation of the discovery and initial clinical utility of a novel signature that identifies patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) that may benefit from treatment beyond typical surgical ...
Drs. Ondrej Choutka, MD, a neurosurgeon, and Lindsay Sales, MD, a radiation oncologist at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, have become the first doctors in the Pacific Northwest to utilize a new treatment for brain tumors. They implanted the FDA-cleared GammaTile therapy in a 44-year-old patient with a malignant brain tumor. The current standard of care for patients with ...
Cancer stem cells are a small sub-population of cells within a tumour with the ability to self-renew, differentiate into the many cell types of a tumour, initiate new tumours, and resist chemotherapy and radiotherapy (leading to relapses). By targeting cancer stem cells, it is hoped that this therapy will reduce the tumour’s ability to generate new cancer ...
Cancer stem cells are a small sub-population of cells within a tumour with the ability to: self-renew differentiate into the many cell types of a tumour initiate new tumours resist chemotherapy and radiotherapy leading to relapses By targeting a cancer stem cell, it is hoped that this therapy will reduce the tumour’s ability to generate new cells, ...
Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) today announced it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with GT Medical Technologies, Inc., to develop Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) together with GT Medical Technologies’ GammaTile Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (STaRT) for treatment of recurrent glioblastoma (GBM). Novocure’s TTFields are electric fields that disrupt cancer cell ...
A University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center neurosurgeon is among the first in the region to begin offering GammaTile® Therapy, a new approach to treating brain tumors. GammaTile Therapy is an FDA-cleared, Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (STaRT) that is designed to delay tumor regrowth for patients with brain tumors while protecting healthy brain tissue. University Hospitals Seidman ...
A University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center neurosurgeon is among the first in the region to begin offering GammaTile® Therapy, a new approach to treating brain tumors. GammaTile Therapy is an FDA-cleared, Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (STaRT) that is designed to delay tumor regrowth for patients with brain tumors while protecting healthy brain tissue. University Hospitals Seidman ...
NeoTherma Oncology, (NTO) a privately held medical device company developing novel non-invasive treatments for solid tumors, today announces they have submitted an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate First-in-Human (FiH) studies of the VectRx™ System in patients with pancreatic cancer being treated with standard of care ...
Radiation may be combined with chemotherapy. For people who can’t undergo surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy may be used as a primary treatment. Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Types of chemotherapy include: Circular wafers are placed in your brain during surgery. As they slowly dissolve, they ...
He continued, this promising approach should provide a practical and accurate means to produce heat deep within the body as an effective adjuvant to radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and/or nanoparticle and chemotherapy. Dr. Michael Wandell, CEO of NTO said Our team was pleased with the successful outcome of this study and we were pleased to present the results to the experts at ...
The ability to improve drug access to the tumor for the chemotherapy and enhance the anti-neoplastic effects of radiation therapy, if proven by the NTO device, may potentiate both therapies to benefit the patient. ...