Cancer Law Weekly

Dip Epidemiologia, Rome - Kaposi sarcoma risk higher in HIV/AIDS than in transplant recipients

Disease Associations - Choice of age cut-off for dyspepsia may decrease endoscopy workload

Disease Associations - Paget disease of bone diagnosed in patient with known prostate cancer

Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan - TRAIL recombinant adenovirus displays antitumor activity in human malignant glioma cells

Duke University, Durham - New findings in drug development described

Eckert & Ziegler, AG - Cancer-focused firm receives large-scale contract for cancer afterloaders in Venezuela

End-of-Life Issues - Concordance of preferences between cancer patient and family for end-of-life care estimated

End-of-Life Issues - Factors predicting home death for terminally ill cancer patients identified

Erasmus University, Rotterdam - Three new human BRCA1 mutant cell lines could aid in understanding the function of BRCA1

European Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods - Perchloroethylene exposure affects various pathways involved in cancer induction

Facilities - New Jersey hospital opens new $17 million Monter Cancer Center

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation is a therapy for hematologic malignancies

Fudan University, Shanghai - Cathepsin B and its interacting proteins implicated in apoptosis of ovarian cancer cells

G Gaslini Institute, Children's Hospital, Genoa - Clinical use of CXCR4 antagonists to prevent neuroblastoma metastasis is not supported

Genzyme Corp. - Test available to monitor Gleevec resistance in people with CML

Geron Corp. - Commercial launch of telomerase-immortalized cell line through ATCC announced

GlaxoSmithKline - IV Hycamtin receives European marketing approval for relapsed small cell lung cancer

Hamedan University of Medicine - Results from a 10-year study of squamous cell carcinoma in Hamedan analyzed

Harvard University Medical School - First disease-specific protein library opens new path for drugs to fight breast cancer

Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen - Endostatin inhibits angiogenesis in a species-specific fashion

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit - Depression does not affect survival among patients with pancreatic cancer

Herzzentrum Lahr - HIF-2 alpha signal transduction in ovarian cancer cells might not involve Bcl-2A

Hopital Edouard Herriot, Lyon - ET-743 proposed as novel agent with activity in soft tissue sarcomas

Hospital Clinic of Barcelona - Positron emission tomography used to detect bone marrow involvement in lymphoma

Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto - No specific imaging features found for intracranial atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors

Hull Royal Infirmary, Kingston Upon Hull - Incidence of detecting pulmonary embolisms with CT in oncology patients analyzed

INSERM U563, Toulouse - Therapeutic targeting of RhoB may control tumor hypoxia and proliferation

Indiana University - The VEGF receptor inhibitor AZD2171 diminished breast tumor size in cancer models

Institute for Cancer Research, London - Findings describe new data in leukemia research

Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague - DNA vaccines carrying HPV16 E7 peptide protect against cervical tumors

International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon - Primary glioblastomas show similar genetic alterations in patients in Japan and Switzerland

Istanbul University - Expression of bcl-2 used to prognosticate papillary thyroid cancers

Istanbul University - Fragmented nucleosomal DNA unrelated to caspase-3 mRNA in lymphoma and myeloma

Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milan - Role of gamma-glutamyltransferase expression in cancer cells and drug resistance explored

Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan - Association between aspirin use and lowered risk of prostate cancer unsupported

J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt - Researchers develop guidelines for treatment of breast cancer during pregnancy

John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica - CCL21 adjuvant enhances immunogenicity of DNA melanoma vaccine

Johns Hopkins University - Germ-line mutations of NKV3.1 implicated in risk of hereditary prostate cancer

Johns Hopkins University - Oleanolic derivative compound protects against liver cancer

Johns Hopkins University Hospital - CT guided percutaneous renal tumor cryoablation effective in initial clinical use