But Iressa patients without the mutations had twice the risk of cancer progression.
She has found that her model is accurate in predicting cancer progression in 350 patients, including 30 still undergoing treatment.
The finding that pseudogenes are often deregulated during cancer progression warrants further investigation into the true extent of pseudogene function.
Meanwhile, Todd Golub at MIT and Harvard's Broad Institute has found a group of five genes involved in prostate cancer progression.
Because medical devices are regulated more loosely than drugs, the ablation devices were approved without anyone's having to affirm that they slowed cancer progression or increased survival above and beyond standard treatments.
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The FDA says the drugs clearly shorten survival and speed the progression of cancer.
The drug combo did decrease the progression of cancer by 15% to 8.9 months and had a 21% improvement in the response rate of patients.
The absence of change over time supports benign disease, while progression suggests a cancer.
Novartis said that PTK-787 met one pre-planned analysis showing it delayed progression of colon cancer, but failed another.
The FDA approved the drug based on company studies showing Kadcyla delayed the progression of breast cancer by several months.
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In another study at the meeting, researchers reported RAD001 delays progression of kidney cancer by about two months in tough cases that had failed with other treatments.
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Roche's Avastin failed to lengthen ovarian cancer patients' lives but stalled progression of the disease for a few months, newly reported studies said.
It can be used also to monitor resistance to antibiotics and follow the progression of treatment of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation.
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Afinitor delayed disease progression in patients with kidney cancer by a modest three months in a 416-patient trial led by Robert Motzer, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
The drug works by inhibiting an enzyme called the proteasome, stopping the normal progression of cell division and causing cancer cells to self-destruct.
We also found that the same program of comprehensive lifestyle changes can reverse type 2 diabetes and may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.
"Kadcyla delivers the drug to the cancer site to shrink the tumor, slow disease progression and prolong survival, " said Dr. Richard Pazdur, director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a statement.
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Harper says that Amgen is aware of the mediocre results for IGF1 drugs elsewhere, but decided to go ahead in pancreatic cancer because of strong results it got in second stage trials, where its drug delayed the progression of the disease by about four months.
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Something similar happened with breast cancer: Avastin won the Food and Drug Administration's approval after studies suggested it delayed disease progression.
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