University of Florida Molecular force field helps cancer cells defend against attack UF scientists find weakness in cancer's armor Much as the famed starship...
Preventive treatment helps avoid Hepatitis B relapse during chemotherapy A new study on treating hepatitis B patients who have cancer with an antiviral drug at...
Dual Stimulation Boosts Anti-Tumor Responses of Natural Killer Cell By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jan 24 - Natural killer cells dually stimulated...
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors and the Promise of Epigenetic (and more) Treatments for Cancer Posted 01/23/2006 Saverio Minucci; Pier Giuseppe Pelicci Abstract...
Correction to Calin et al., N Engl J Med 353 (17) 1793-1801 October 27, 2005. Previous Volume 354:524-525 February 2, 2006 Number 5 MicroRNA in Chronic...
Cancer Res. 2006 Feb 1;66(3):1799-1808. The Anti-Human Leukocyte Antigen-DR Monoclonal Antibody 1D09C3 Activates the Mitochondrial Cell Death Pathway and...
CLINICAL TRIALS AND OBSERVATIONS A phase 1 trial of donor lymphocyte infusions expanded and activated ex vivo via CD3/CD28 costimulation David L. Porter, Bruce...
TRANSPLANTATION Results of alemtuzumab-based reduced-intensity allogeneic transplantation for chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a British Society of Blood and...
[This is from the lab that produced the article posted here (6746) from ASH on the 'shaving' of CD20 from CLL cells. The mechanism proposed is interesting, as...
B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, a Clonal Disease of B Lymphocytes with Receptors that Vary in Specificity for (Auto) antigens NICHOLAS CHIORAZZIa,b,c,...
CD154 Gene Therapy for Human B-Cell Malignancies DAVORKA MESSMER and THOMAS J. KIPPS Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, ...
Potential Contribution of VH Gene Replacement in Immunity and Disease YANWEN LIUa,b, RUN FANa,c, SONG ZHOUd, ZHIHONG YUa,b and ZHIXIN ZHANGa,b,c aDivision of...
[This carcinogen is even found in blood samples from polar bears...] BALTIMORE - A suspected carcinogen used to make Teflon was found in nearly all the...
[CXCR4 is often overexpressed in CLL cells as well. See message 6030 for a related post.] Chemokine Therapeutics Receives Approval From Regulatory Authorities...
www.avalonrx.com/science/AVN944.html Avalon Pharmaceuticals Completes First Dosing Cycle On First Patient And Initiates Second Cohort Of AVN944 Phase I...
[Interesting paper. The fact that some CLL patients seem to have common receptor patterns is of interest. This paper may shed some light on the issue.] Ann N...
[Dr. Kipps and others have been long interested in this type of therapy. It has been the subject of on-going clinical trials, though I don't see the trial on...
Research: Veggies May Protect Against Cancer Washington, D.C. -- Need another reason to eat your vegetables? New research shows that some of them contain...
I am somewhat surprised this kind of research in clinical trials is still going on. The results so far have been less than stellar. However, the following...
American Cancer Society has the latest estimates for 2006 Cancer incidence in the US, including that for CLL The society estimates that 10,020 people will be...
Clin Cancer Res. 2006 Feb 1;12(3):726-734. ZAP-70 Expression in Normal Pro/Pre B Cells, Mature B Cells, and in B- Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Crespo M,...
I don't have the number of CLL patients per 100,000 Americans, but the American Cancer Society has just put out 2006 estimates, and about 10,020 people are...
When Good DNA Goes Bad "Backward" DNA leads to DNA breaks associated with leukemia, study finds M. D. Anderson News Release 02/10/06 When otherwise normal DNA...
Malignancy and autoimmunity. Current Opinion in Rheumatology. 18(2):129-134, March 2006. Bernatsky, Sasha a; Ramsey-Goldman, Rosalind b; Clarke, Ann a,c ...
Immunomodulatory Drugs for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Show Promise of Meaningful Clinical Activity Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common form...
[Another article states that the drug is or will be tested in cancer patients as well as CRF patients. (Chronic renal failure) New Drug Speeds Red Blood Cell...
A few coupons for prescription medicines. Don't see any CLL drugs here (what, you mean no 50% off Rituxan?), but may be of interest to some. The list of the...