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Bespoke cancer therapy raises vital question of cost (Times Online)
The great aim of modern cancer treatment is not necessarily to cure patients of their tumours but to allow people to die with their cancers and not because of them.

A full day of active fun for a worthy cause (The Intelligencer)
A 24-hour soccer tournament is set for Aug. 2 and 3 to honor Sarah Parvin, a Quakertown soccer player who died of ovarian cancer at age 12. Proceeds will benefit cancer-fighting organizations.

Using Magnetic Nanoparticles To Combat Cancer (PhotonicsOnline)
Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a potential new treatment against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body

Using Magenetic Nanoparticles To Combat Cancer (Science Daily)
Scientists have developed a potential new treatment against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body. The treatment has been tested in the laboratory and will now be looked at in survival studies.

Halozyme Therapeutics Announces Positive Findings With Pegylated Enzyme in Prostate Cancer Models (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products targeting the extracellular matrix, today announced the presentation of positive pre-clinical animal efficacy data for its pegylated-rHuPH20 enzyme at the American Association for Cancer Research Translational Cancer Medicine meeting in Monterey, CA.

QVC gives 2-hour price break for good cause (Courier-Post)
Grab designer brands for a fraction of the cost while supporting ovarian cancer research during a two-hour event Saturday.

TG2 Identified As Potential Therapeutic Target In Chemo-Resistant Ovarian Cancer (Medical News Today)
M. D. Anderson team silences protein with siRNA, implicates TG2 in fourth cancer Scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found overexpression of tissue type transglutaminase (TG2) in ovarian cancer is associated with increased tumor cell growth and adhesion, resistance to chemotherapy and lower overall survival rates.

ITTY BITTY BITS: Halle to raise ovarian cancer awareness; Lil Wayne No. 1 again; BET's 'Black Panther'; Chris Brown & ... (Eurweb)
*Actress and new mom Halle Berry will be seen in a series of public service announcements to raise awareness of ovarian cancer, reports USA Today.

Analgesic drugs don't reduce ovarian cancer risk (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The regular use of over-the-counter analgesic drugs, such as aspirin and ibuprofen, does not appear to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, according to findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

MediGene exercises DKFZ option for anti-L1 antibody for cancer (PharmaBiz)
MediGene AG announced that, according to plan, an option, granted two years ago by the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum = DKFZ) in Heidelberg for the development and commercialization of an antibody for the treatment of different types of cancer, including ovarian cancer, will now be exercised by MediGene.

 

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