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World Cancer Declaration Sets Ambitious Targets For 2020
02.09.2008 06:16
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A summit of more than 60 high-level policymakers, leaders and health experts have adopted a global plan aimed at tackling the growing cancer crisis in developing countries. The plan, contained in the World Cancer Declaration, recommends a set of 11 cancer-busting targets for 2020 and outlines priority steps that need to be taken in order to meet them.
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New Approach To Treating Endometrial Cancer Discovered By TGen And Washington University Researchers
02.09.2008 04:16
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Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has announced a new approach to treating endometrial cancer patients that not only stops the growth of tumors, but kills the cancer cells. In a potentially major breakthrough, TGen scientists and collaborators at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
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Landmark Study Opens Door To New Cancer, Aging Treatments
02.09.2008 04:16
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Researchers at The Wistar Institute have deciphered the structure of the active region of telomerase, an enzyme that plays a major role in the development of nearly all human cancers. The landmark achievement opens the door to the creation of new, broadly effective cancer drugs, as well as anti-aging therapies. Researchers have attempted for more than a decade to find drugs that shut down telomerase widely considered the No.
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REVLIMID(R) Demonstrates Activity Against Relapsed/Refractory Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL)
02.09.2008 04:16
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Celgene International SÃ rl (Nasdaq:CELG) announced the publication of peer-reviewed data from a Phase II study of REVLIMID in relapsed or refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. According to the data, REVLIMID, as an oral monotherapy, demonstrated activity in patients at an advanced stage of the disease who had received a median of four prior treatments and had limited treatment options.
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