Clinical Trials News
How Can You Help End Childhood Cancer?
Did you know that 1 in every 285 American children is diagnosed with a form of pediatric cancer? That’s a really shocking statistic and one that you should keep in mind this …
Cancer Sniffing Dogs Join the UC Davis Cancer Center
We just got word that the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has added some valuable new members to their team. What’s more, we’ve heard that these young upstarts can sit and speak …
Prostate Cancer? Here’s What You Should Know
Did you know that one in every six men are expected to be diagnosed with prostate cancer over their lifetime? It’s the most common form of cancer in men (not including skin …
Immunotherapy: A Potential Cure for Cancer?
Could a cure for cancer be just around the corner? That’s what experts are claiming following the results of a new cancer clinical trial in Britain. The results from this applied form …
Colorectal Cancer Screening – Here’s What You Need to Know
March just happens to be Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and we wanted to take this opportunity to address a few things. If you are reading this post that probably means you’ve taken …
A Look at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), was founded in 1975 in Seattle Washington. Since then, the Fred Hutchinson has become one of the leading cancer research centers in the country. Their …
6 Ways You Can Protect Yourself From Breast Cancer
If someone were to ask you about breast cancer, what would you be able to tell them? This is the most common cancer amongst women, but sometimes it can be hard to …
Dana-Farber: Massachusetts’ Leading Cancer Institute
The success of this year’s Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk has gotten us thinking about the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. If you don’t live in the Northeast, there’s a chance that you might …
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Did you know that March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month? This means that it is time to turn our focus towards the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the US for …
From New Exercises to MRI’s: Featured Clinical Trials in California
There is not another state in the country that conducts as many clinical trials as California. It has become a major hub for the research industry with companies competing to sponsor new …
Performing a Neck Check for Thyroid Cancer
Luckily, patients with thyroid cancer usually are given a very good prognosis (it has a 97 percent five-year survival rate). However, this is not a good excuse to be ignorant of the …
Taking Actos Could Lead to Bladder Cancer
The results of several new studies have provided evidence suggesting that the risk of developing bladder cancer as a result of taking Actos (pioglitazone) is greater than previously indicated in its preliminary …
We are Honoring Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Colorectal cancer (refers to cancer originating in the colon or rectum) is currently the second leading cause of cancer-related death for both men and women in the United States. Each year, nearly …
How Can Resveratrol Prevent Cancer and Diabetes?
On Wednesday, December 5, a team of scientists from the University of Leicester presented astonishing new evidence to the medical community. They have discovered that a chemical, which can be found in …
Emory’s Pediatric Research Center Selected as Primary Site for Pediatric Cardiac Research
Last year in August, the Pediatric Research Center of Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta was selected as the new Pediatric Heart Network (PHN) primary site for clinical research. The PHN …
Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer
Radiation therapy is a therapy generally part of cancer treatment that involves ionizing radiation to obliterate cancer cells from the body. Radiation therapy is effective in curing localized cancers as well as …
Breast Cancer Clinical Trial Birmingham Focused on MRI
Upon the diagnosis of early stage breast cancer, a patient may be advised to undergo a breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) so that the doctors could more accurately evaluate whether the patient …
Bladder Cancer Drug Being Tested in Miami Shows Promising Results
According to the National Cancer Institute, bladder cancer is the sixth most common form of cancer. In the year 2009, 70,980 new cases and 14,330 deaths from bladder cancer were reported in …
Bio-Path’s Liposomal Grb-2 Treats Blood Cancers
Just yesterday, at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in sunny San Diego, Bio-Path Holdings, Inc announced their results from Cohort 1 of the Phase I cancer clinical trial …
New Cancer Drug AT-406 Effective on Multiple Types of Cancer
Cancer is quickly taking over many people’s lives. The problem with curing cancer is that there are so many different types, and there is not a single cure for all cancers. However, …
Oncology Clinical Trials helping More People Beat Cancer
It was not so long ago that a diagnosis of cancer was a very grim diagnosis with little or no hope of recovery. These days though the number of cancer survivors grows …