In one early trial on 64 cancer patients, 16 had advanced lung cancer--and tumors shriveled dramatically in 4 of them.
The result of the focus on testing cancer drugs on all patients is painful trial and error.
Misono led a similar study on suicide among cancer patients in 2008 but was not involved in the current research.
"Among clinicians there continues to be a reticence, " said Kathryn Schmitz, a University of Pennsylvania researcher on exercise in cancer patients.
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But Herceptin, invented at Genentech (now part of Roche), might never have made it to market if it had been tested on all breast cancer patients.
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So AstraZeneca followed the time-tested approach for cancer drugs: It had initially tested Iressa on terminally ill patients with various cancer types, hoping for hints as to which tumors might be most vulnerable.
He predicts that very soon all patients with colon cancer will be tested early on for kras status in the same way the breast cancer patients are tested to see their estrogen receptor status.
"Of around 800 prostate cancer patients on the hospital's database about 10% are black, nearly 3 times their rate in the population, " he said.
Among others, in 1995 it funded a young Johns Hopkins researcher to test a new concept for a prostate cancer vaccine on 20 patients.
He and his colleagues have been working on understanding why patients in that age group don't show improvement in cancer-care rates on par with young kids or older adult patients.
Results from a 9, 366-patient trial showed that those on Arimidex had a 17% reduction in the risk of breast cancer recurrence compared with patients on Nolvadex.
In SEAS, there were 102 cases of cancer for patients on Vytorin, compared with 67 on placebo.
The studies were carried out by researchers at St Thomas' Hospital in London who studied 87 papers on 100, 000 breast cancer patients from around the world.
The researchers also found that aspirin reduced the risk of adenocarcinoma with metastasis at initial diagnosis by almost a third (31%), and risk of metastasis on subsequent follow-up in patients without metastasis initially (by 55%), particularly in patients with colorectal cancer(by 74%), and in patients who remained on trial treatment up to or after diagnosis (by 69%).
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All those treated on the NHS will have been cancer patients undergoing reconstructive surgery.
Could this be because he is currently running his own clinical trial on acupuncture for the treatment of cancer patients?
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Other questions focused on NICE and treatment for patients with cancer and Alzheimer's disease, farming regulations, and Brook House Immigration Removal Centre.
The Health Select Committee says the lack of clarity on the future of the scheme puts cancer patients and doctors in the dark.
Researchers may have to do many small trials of combinations of immune-boosting drugs until they find which combos work best on which patients, says Dana Farber Cancer Institute's Glenn Dranoff.
The first data on Iressa were promising: It seemed to help patients with non-small cell lung cancer when it was given on its own.
Most of the data we have on the effects of lung resection are from cancer patients, and Francis, having been young and otherwise healthy, probably did better than older, sicker patients.
And one recent survey showed that 10 percent of all cancer patients report hitting a cap on their benefits, leaving them scrambling to find alternative insurance to figure out how to pay out of pocket for the rest of their lifetime.
The outcome prompteed an independent data monitoring committee recommended patients who are on placebo should be offered Zytiga, which was approved to treat advanced prostate cancer patients who did not benefit from chemo.
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Tarceva has already produced promising results in a trial on patients with non-small cell lung cancer who had already been heavily treated with chemotherapy.
Following the final item during plenary the first minister raised a point of order, calling on Mr Davies to apologise for comments made regarding cancer patients.
In July, researchers hastily released a study, called SEAS, in which patients on Vytorin developed and died of cancer more often than those in a placebo group.
"Any suggestion, inference, or innuendo that implies that IMP's treatment of patients with prostate cancer is based on anything other than the best interests and personal choice of each, individual patient is blatantly false, " he wrote.
Of 71 Lib Dem peers present in the Lords on Wednesday, five voted against the government to exempt cancer patients from being means-tested for employment and support allowance - and 24 abstained.
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