Oncology Business Week

Chungtai Institute of Health Science, Taichung - Increased levels of urokinase plasminogen activator implicated in lung cancer

Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Refeeding after chronic dietary energy restriction reverses anticancer effect

Correlogic Systems, Inc. - Development of prostate cancer blood tests to move forward

Cutting Edge Information - Report shows pharma companies spend $76.8 million launching cancer treatments

Deutsch Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg - Reports describe recent advances in leukemia research

DiagnoCure, Inc. - Cancer detection-focused company appoints CFO

Dresden University of Technology - HLA-DRB1* 01 genotype increases risk for adrenocortical carcinoma

Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group - Substantial 15-year survival gains from standard treatments

Emory University Hospital, Atlanta - LANA sensitive/specific KS marker in general and HIV-infected populations

Emory University, Atlanta - Interferon alfa-2a, isotretinoin, and vitamin E involved in phase 2 study

Endocyte, Inc. - Cancer/autoimmune-focused company moves operations to Purdue Technology Center

Evangelico Valdese Hospital, Turin - Fine-needle aspiration should be first step in assessing suspicious lymph nodes

G. Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa - Central venous catheter-related complications characterized

German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, Heidelberg - ERBB2 variant Ile654Val associated with increased familial breast cancer risk

Grant Life Sciences - Clinical trials of blood test for HPV-associated cervical cancer are underway

Harvard University - Local enucleation relieved symptoms in patients with esophageal leiomyoma

Harvard University - Researchers consider possible mechanistic links between obesity and asthma

Hokkaido University - Aberrant HOX gene expression related to breast cancer development

Hospital Calmette, Lille - RT-PCR is an early predictive factor of relapse risk in AML with t(8; 21)

Hospital La Fe, Valencia - Anterior chamber infiltrated in patient with Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Hospital for Special Surgery, New York - How normal B cells become leukemic cells

IMI International Medical Innovations - Pivotal breast cancer study launched

INSERM U540 - Aromatase expression detected in some ovarian epithelial cancer cells, tissues

Indiana University - Esophageal cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation reviewed

Indiana University - Telomere dysfunction involved in aging and cancer

Information Technology - Impac to offer specimen tracking using barcoding technology

Institut Curie, Paris - One-thousandth patient treated with BEBIG seeds

Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif - Surgical treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis examined

Institute of Cancer Research, London - Chemotherapy augments gene therapy targeting tumor vessels

Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana - Findings advance knowledge in breast cancer research

Int'l Center for Genetics Eng & Bio., Trieste - New findings in the area of cancer vaccines detailed

Kanazawa University - COX-2 inhibitor prevents esophageal inflammation-metaplasia-adenocarcinoma

Kanazawa University - Hematopoietic cells regulate angiogenic switch during tumorigenesis

Kangbuk Samsung Hospital - OcculTech fecal occult blood test suitable for colorectal neoplasia screening

Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm - Distribution of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in organ transplant recipients

Karolinska Institute - Tobacco smoking and snuff dipping implicated in risk of squamous cell carcinoma

Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm - Cyclin B1 predicts favorable outcomes in patients with follicular lymphoma

Keio University, Tokyo - Microsatellite instability in inflamed mucosa helped predict colonic neoplasms

Kyoto University - Cisplatin/adriamycin release from hydrogel has synergistic antitumor effects

Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul - Factors raise cancer risk in those with current and past HBV infections

Leiden University - Cancer immunotherapy targets minor histocompatibility antigens