Cancer Treatment Research

Epidemiological features of Central Nervous System tumors at MAHAK Pediatric Cancer Treatment and Research Center

Background: In this study, we examined the epidemiologic characteristics of childhood brain tumors in patients referred to MAHAK Pediatric Cancer Treatment and Research Center (one of the main national referral centers for childhood malignancies in Iran) for treatment. Materials and Methods: This cohort (simple sampling) study consisted of 198 children less than 15 year old with CNS tumor ref...

LEPTOMENINGEAL METASTASES Cancer Treatment and Research

Advances in Lung Cancer and Treatment Research

With the advances in surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy over the last decades, the treatment strategies of lung cancer has been largely changed. In this review, we summarize recent advances in lung cancer and treatment research. We discuss current clinical management, highlight stage-specific therapy approaches, chemotherapy options for advanced-stage of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) ...

Advances in Prostate Cancer Research and Treatment

1 Radiotherapy Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Firenze, Italy 2 Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University, 00161 Rome, Italy 3 RestorGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 37 Neillian Crescent, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, USA 4Laboratory of Radiobiology and Division of Radiotherapy, Department of Applied, Clin...

Preclinical research in treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is an aggressive type of malignancy and remains a treatment-refractory cancer. Because of the few treatment options, understanding of the molecular mechanisms is necessary, for new drugs be developed against molecular targets. Two of the novel, promising regimens against molecular targets, NVP-BEZ235 and MSK-777, were examined in three preclinical studies performed in ...