Oncology Business Week

Karolinska Institute - Totally implantable subcutaneous port system can cause extensive bleeding

Kuwait Cancer Control Center - Fine needle aspiration can distinguish benign and malignant soft tissue lesions

Kyushu University, Fukuoka - Two-loci or greater HLA mismatch associated with poor SCT outcome

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Branched poly(L-glutamic acid) may be a biodegradable drug carrier

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - New targeted agents in acute myeloid leukemia are more effective and less toxic

Maastricht University - Smoking cigarettes increases risk of bladder cancer substantially

Massachusetts General Hospital - Newly approved bevacizumab strikes down rectal cancer vessel growth

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Innate immune response relies on selectins and integrins for tumor suppression

Mayo Clinic - Harvey W. Cushing developed posterior fossa surgery for children's brain tumors

Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York - Enhanced PAR expression makes tumors form in immunocompromised mice

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan - Anticancer and antimalarial agents derived from Malaysian ginseng

National Yang Ming University - Taiwanese cancer patients want to know the diagnosis before family is told

Neoprobe Corp. - CEO discusses Lymphoseek development

Northern California Cancer Center - Expert review highly agrees with the diagnosis of NHLs in a cancer registry

Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology - Radiation helps cytotoxic drugs reach the tumor cells of osteosarcoma xenografts

OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Company announces expansion and modification of phase I trial for OSI-461

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals - Patent issued for vasopermeation enhancement technology

Personnel - Society of Gynecologic Oncologists elects new president

Pre-eclampsia - Hypertension condition during pregnancy linked to increased cancer risk

Rigshospitalet National University Hospital - New vaccine eliminates IL-6 immune response

Rocky Mt. Cancer Center, Aurora - Combined regimen is effective and minimally toxic in non-Hodgkins lymphoma

Roswell Park Cancer Institute - Conjugated linoleic acid isomers have unique effects on angiogenesis

Royal Free & University College Medical School - Retroviral constructs directed against CEA foster tumor cell transduction

Royal Orthopedic Hospital, Birmingham - Adolescent survival rates for bone cancer have not improved for 20 years

Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center - No recurrence seen in patients with bone graft substitutes for benign bone tumors

Russian Academy of Medical Science - Aranoza is approved for treating patients with melanoma

Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institiute - Apolipoprotein B-100 XbaI gene may predispose patients to gallbladder cancer

Schering, AG, Germany - Imaging Diagnostic Systems installs additional CTLM system

Seattle Genetics, Inc. - SGN-30 receives orphan drug designation for T-cell lymphomas

SpectRx, Inc. - Clinical trials begin for noninvasive cervical cancer detection test

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Satraplatin shows in vitro efficacy in taxane-resistant tumor cells

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Protein's role in retina development key to understanding devastating eye cancer

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Researchers find direct link between CBP gene and lymphoma

Technical University of Munich - Several genes respond to intracellular zinc depletion in colon adenocarcinoma

Tenon Hospital - [¹⁸F]FDG-GPET is useful in the follow-up of breast cancer patients

Thomas Jefferson University - Tumors of the conjunctiva and cornea can be congenital or acquired lesions

Tokyo Women's Medical University - Post-SCT eosinophilic pustular folliculitis described

U.S. National Cancer Institute - Protein NMR improved using pseudocontact shifts as restraints

U.S. National Institutes of Health - New data lead NIH to halt active phase of one WHI study, begin follow-up

U.S. Natl. Inst. of Standards & Technology - New nano-imaging technique could improve reliability of breast cancer tests

Univ. Inst. of Applied Radiophysics, Lusanne - Study tests human detection of lesions in mammograms