Saturday, February 25, 2006

Lung cancer - Study: Cutting fat didn't reduce cancer, heart risks


Study: Cutting fat didn't reduce cancer, heart risks
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - Judy LaCour, 66, drinks some water with her meal. LaCour participated in a women's health initiative study on low-fat lifestyles and their effect on cancer and heart disease. She joined the study more than 10 years ago and was assigned to the low-fat

Advaxis' Listeria Cancer Vaccine Receives Regulatory Approval for
dBusinessNews.com - New York - North Brunswick, NJ, February 21, 2006, Advaxis, Inc. (OTCBB: ADXS) announced that regulators have allowed the company to initiate Phase I/II clinical testing with its lead compound, Listeria-based cancer vaccine, Lovaxin C. Lovaxin C

AGH gets million-dollar gift
Worcester County Times - Berlin resident Eunice Sorin has donated $1 million to AGH. BERLIN -- Local philanthropist Eunice Sorin has donated $1 million to benefit the Atlantic General Hospital's Women's Diagnostic Center. Sorin, 82, who has supported AGH since its inception

Bayer and partner launch Phase 3 trial for lung cancer treatment
Mass High Tech - Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. has begun a randomized, double- blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial with Calif.-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. studying a compound as a potential treatment of lung cancer. The study has the Nexavar (sorafenib

Doctors Want to Find Spreading Cancer
San Francisco Gate - No one ever checked whether Leslie Bather's breast cancer was spreading to her brain, until the day tumors caused three frightening seizures. MRI scans can help spot when cancer in another part of the body sends seedlings into the brain, but few