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Clinical trial launched to test new treatment technique for bowel cancer

Guildford. Despite major advances in treating advanced bowel cancer, the number of patients who survive beyond five years remains disappointingly...

Scientists identify new drug target for advanced bowel cancer

identify new drug target for advanced bowel cancer... revealed two potential new avenues for combating advanced bowel cancer - either with existing SRC inhibitor treatments or with drugs currently being...

Studies unpick why bowel cancers become resistant to treatment

Hopkins University looked at 28 patients with advanced bowel cancer who had been treated with panitumumab. Twenty-four of the 28 patients in the...

Protein levels could predict if bowel cancer patients will benefit from Avastin

Avastin targets could identify patients with advanced bowel cancer who will benefit from the treatment, according to research published in... is not approved by NICE for patients with advanced bowel cancer because they feel that the benefit to an unknown minority of patients does not...

Breast cancer gene provides vital clue to bowel cancer drug resistance

cancer gene ‘HER2’ in tumour samples from 170 advanced bowel cancer patients treated with either cetuximab or panitumumab. These drugs are part...