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Combining a targeted drug with hormone therapy substantially extends survival for women with advanced breast cancer, a major clinical trial ...

Some patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer live longer with immunotherapy

Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 20 October 2018 - Immunotherapy improves survival in some patients with ...

Erlotinib improves progression-free survival in early mutated non-small cell lung cancer

Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - Neoadjuvant erlotinib benefits selected epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated patients who undergo complete resection ...

Avelumab plus axitinib significantly improve PFS in untreated renal cell carcinoma

Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - A combination of the immune checkpoint blocker, ...

Local radiotherapy improves survival in metastatic prostate cancer with low disease burden

Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - Radiotherapy to the prostate improves overall survival ...

Zoledronic acid improves disease-free survival in premenopausal HR+ early breast cancer

Munich, Germany, 20 October 2018 - Adjuvant treatment with the bone sparing drug zoledronic acid plus hormonal therapy with the ...

Targeting specific genomic mutation in breast cancer improves outcomes, first study shows

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Targeting a common mutation in patients with hormone receptor positive (HR+) HER2 negative (HER2-) advanced ...

Major response to immunotherapy in early-stage mismatch repair deficient colon cancer

Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 22 October 2018 - Pre-operative treatment with a combination of the ...

New technique reveals limb control in flies — and maybe robots

Credit: Pavan Ramdya, EPFL One of the major goals of biology, medicine, and robotics is to understand how limbs are ...

Achaogen provides data to SPARK, Pew’s platform for antibiotic discovery research

WASHINGTON--Biopharmaceutical company Achaogen and The Pew Charitable Trusts announced a groundbreaking agreement today to share data from Achaogen's discontinued LpxC ...

Electron microscope provided look inside the organic chemical reaction

Credit: Ananikov V. P Scientists from Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow managed to ...

Insilico Medicine to present its latest results in generative chemistry AI Applications Summit

Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Monday, October 22, 2018, Boston - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery ...

Salk scientists advance ultrasound technology for neurological therapy

LA JOLLA--(October 22, 2018) The emerging technology of sonogenetics--a technique where cells are controlled by sound--offers the potential to one ...

First immunotherapy success for triple-negative breast cancer

October 20, 2018

There is new hope for people with an aggressive type of breast cancer, as an immunotherapy trial shows for the ...

Medical imaging technologies and methods for health care

The fast-moving advancement in medical imaging technology has revolutionized health care science. When information technology is integrated with imaging technology, ...

Women may experience more side effects than men during gastric cancer chemotherapy

ESMO 2018 abstract 619PD_PR - Influence of sex on chemotherapy efficacy and toxicity in oesophagogastric (OG cancer): a pooled analysis ...

Women more prone to selected oesophagogastric cancer chemotherapy side-effects

Munich, Germany, 19 October 2018 - Men and women may need to be treated differently - at least when it ...

How do pelvic floor muscle exercises reduce overactive bladder symptoms?

October 19, 2018 - Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common form of urinary incontinence that is widely treated with pelvic ...

New drug could sustain oxygen-starved hearts

Running low on oxygen is a major danger for any of your body's tissues, but the heart is particularly sensitive ...

Social vulnerability and medical skepticism top factors limiting adherence to screening