Business/Technology Editors & Health/Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BW HealthWire)--May 29, 2002 Acusphere, Inc. announced today that it has begun Phase I clinical trials of AI-850(TM), a unique formulation of paclitaxel, the active compound in t...

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANPI ANPI - Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (Italian: National Association of Partisans); TSE:ANP), Vancouver, British Columbia, has announced encouraging results from its Phase 1 clinical study using Micellar Pacli...

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX: ONC ONC - Office National de la Chasse (France)ONC - One Number Census (UK)ONC - Open Network Computing (Distributed Applications Architecture)ONC - Operational Navigation ChartONC - Ordinary National Certificate (UK)ONC -...

Scouting for chemical clues to the puzzle of why eastern filbert filbert: see hazel. blight blight, general term for any sudden and severe plant disease or for the agent that causes it. The term is now applied chiefly to diseases caused by bacteria (e....

Business EditorsVANCOUVER, B.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2000Angiotech (Nasdaq:ANPI ANPI - Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (Italian: National Association of Partisans)) (TSE:ANP.)The third quarter of fiscal 2000 saw the Company break new ground through t...

Second Global Regulatory Filing for ABRAXANE in the Past Four Months LOS ANGELES -- Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABBI ABBI - Advanced Breast Biopsy Instrumentation), an integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the Therapeutic Goods Admi...

Effects of gamma-linolenic acid and oleic acid on paclitaxel cytotoxicity in human breast cancer cells. Menendez JA, del Mar Barbacid M, Montero S, et al. Eur J Cancer 2001;37:402-413. ...

Shin HJ. Kim YS> Kwak Y.S. et al. Planta Med 2004:70:1033-1038. ...

CHICAGO, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- GlaxoSmithKline and Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. today announced positive Phase II clinical data for elesclomol (formerly STA-4783), an investigational agent currently in development for metastatic melanoma. A retrospective analysis s...

The chemotherapy drug paclitaxel, when given to mice, shows signs of impeding the skin disease scleroderma, researchers report. By slowing skin thickening, paclitaxel might offer a treatment for a disease that has defied cure. ...

Bioxel Pharma Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BIP), a leading manufacturer and supplier of taxane active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and developer of targeted oncology drugs, announced today that it is expanding its paclitaxel API listings to ten additional countries; bringi...

A pilot study on the effect of acetyl-L-carnitine in paclitaxel- and cisplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy. ...

WALTHAM, Mass. -- CA4P in Combination with Carboplatin and Paclitaxel to be Evaluated for the Treatment of Platinum-Resistant, Advanced Ovarian Cancer ...

Looking for a way to deliver a chemotherapy drug to cancer patients more safely and effectively, a team of chemists has attached dozens of paelitaxel (Taxol) molecules to tiny gold particles that could carry the drug directly to a tumor in the body. ...

Protherics PLC Protherics initiates OncoGel(TM) phase 1/2 brain cancer study ...

Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer - How Does it Work? There are three main treatments for ovarian cancer, once a diagnosis is made. These are surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. In some cases it will be recommended to have two or even all three of these t...

Copyright © 2008 Radoslaw Pilarski EtiologyAbove all, occupational exposure to chemical compounds (among others from the group of aromatic amines) is considered to be the factor leading to falling ill with cancer of the urinary bladder. Smoking tobacco is also...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women who do not smoke. It is malignant neoplasm of the breast.It is estimated that one women in nine will develop breast cancer in her lifetime and will have 3.5% chance dying from it. How can we Diagnose breast cancer? Abo...