Cold helps cancer grow faster: Study

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Research by the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in the US finds that mice living in a relatively cold environment of 22°C had cancers that grew more quickly and aggressively than mice living at 30°C

A study by Dr Elizabeth Repasky and colleagues at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in the US found that cold changes the way cancer cells grow and spread in mice. The research has been published in a paper in the Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Genomics Could Blow Up the Clinical Trial

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Genomic technology could accelerate patient trials of new cancer drugs that are targeted to a tumor’s individual molecular profile.

 By Susan Young on November 12, 2013

A novel kind of clinical trial is set to test several new lung cancer drugs based on the molecular profiles of each participating patient’s tumor.

If successful, the trial could help bring cancer-genome-targeted medicines to patients more quickly than has been possible to date. Trials often only test one new drug at a time, and in cases when researchers do use genomic profiling to match a patient to a new treatment, they may struggle to find suitable candidates.

One of the great promises of genomic medicine is that doctors will be able to tailor treatments to an individual patient’s disease. In the case of cancer, patients could be given an effective drug from the get-go based on a tumor’s particular molecular disruptions instead of going through a trial-and-error process to find a drug that works.

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