About Us Activities Casefile Resource ... Chat Transcripts Clippings The following are extracts of recent cancer-related news items from local daily newspapers.
Do you see something you want to know more about? Would you like to be sent the whole article? Please contact us Blood Cancer Patient's Cancer Cells May Help Treat Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma-(ET-05/01/2003)
Another Advancement for Leukemia Drug-(HealthScout News-22/12/2002)
New Stem Cell Technique for Leukemia Treatment (Reuters-28/10/2002)
Caution Recommended in Epoetin Use for Anemia in Hematologic Malignancy (Reuters Health-24/10/2002) ... [Top] Roche launches cancer drug in Japan-(Times of India Online-14/09/2001) Roche Holding AG has launched MabThera, its number two drug by sales, in Japan to treat non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the most common form of blood cancer, the Swiss healthcare group said.
MabThera, which has been granted marketing approval in more than 65 countries, was discovered by IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp and is being developed by Genentech Inc, Roche and Zenyaku Kogyo Co Ltd. Roche has the marketing rights outside the US. [Top] Drug to mop up cancer-causing genes (Times of India Online-04/09/2001) In what could be a significant step in finding cure for cancer, doctors at a private hospital here are putting to test, for the first time in India, a drug to mop up the very genes that cause Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL), a rare form of blood cancer. A team of haemato-oncologists at the Kothari Medical Centre in Kolkata have used the arsenic drug Trisonex with "encouraging results" on a 34-year-old woman, the first recipient of the drug in India, suffering from APL. "Trisenox, chemically arsenic trinide, is simultaneously being tried at the M D Anderson Hospital in USA as a first line drug along with other anti-cancer drugs, eliminating the painful process of chemotherapy so far used to cleanse the body of malignant cells," team leader Dr Asis Mukherjee said. | |
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