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RESTON, Va., June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Clinical Care Options (CCO), a leader in education for healthcare professionals, and several esteemed breast cancer experts will present a poster titled, "Utilization and clinical practice impact of an interactive tool for guiding choice of systemic adjuvant treatment (adj TX) for patients with early breast cancer (EBC): Abstract #6063" at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, Saturday, June 4, 2011. Current...

SEATTLE, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. ("CTI") (NASDAQ: CTICD and MTA: CTIC) today announced that consistent with its previously announced pipeline strategy, CTI has identified a potential acquisition opportunity that is a phase II drug candidate being investigated in the field of cancer immunotherapy. Called antigen presenting cell or APC activators, these protein therapeutics activate macrophages and dendritic cells to present foreign antigens to T-killer cells and...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) today announced updated results from the Phase 2b 003-A1 study of single-agent carfilzomib, a next generation proteasome inhibitor, in patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma. Carfilzomib achieved a clinical benefit rate (CBR) (minimal response or greater) in the study population of 37 percent with a duration of response (DOR) of 8.3 months. The primary endpoint, overall...

WAYNE, N.J. and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) today announced that data evaluating the use of Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets will be presented in a scientific forum at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), June 3-7, in Chicago. "Bayer and Onyx remain committed to researching the potential utility of sorafenib, and the number of abstracts being...

Today's anticancer drugs often work wonders against malignancies, but sometimes tumors become resistant to the effects of such drugs, and treatment fails. Medical researchers would like to find ways of counteracting such resistance, but first they must understand why and how it happens. New findings by Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers identify one protein, Abcc10 (also known as Mrp7), as being intimately involved in resistance to certain drugs used to treat breast, ovarian, lung, and other...

CALGARY, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ: ONCY) ("Oncolytics" or the "Company") today announced its financial results and operational highlights for the quarter ended March 31, 2011. "In order to maximize the future commercial potential for REOLYSIN(®), we continue to expand and advance our clinical program through a combination of our own trials and sponsored initiatives that allow us to cost effectively expand the scope of our...

SEATTLE, May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) announced that data from a study with OPAXIO(TM) (paclitaxel poliglumex or PPX), in patients with newly diagnosed high-grade gliomas, and interim results from a study of tosedostat in elderly patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia ("AML"), will be presented at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, which will be held June 3-7, 2011, in Chicago,...

DALLAS and NEW YORK, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ACCESS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (OTCBB: ACCP), a biopharmaceutical company leveraging its proprietary drug-delivery platforms to develop treatments in areas of oncology, cancer supportive care and diabetes, announced that it has made significant progress with its CobaCyte(TM) tumor-targeting technology. Using a new proprietary CobaCyte paclitaxel nanoparticle formulation, named Cobraxane(TM), the company's scientists have observed significant...

--Hospital Forms First Startup Firm to Develop Treatments for Peripheral Artery Disease-- PHILADELPHIA, May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Building on its extensive laboratory research using magnetically guided nanoparticles to deliver drugs to diseased blood vessels, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has just spun off its first startup company, Vascular Magnetics, Inc. (VMI). By licensing its technology to VMI, a new company formed to develop the lab findings into a commercially...

A motor regulatory protein can block human ovarian tumor growth, leading to eventual cancer cell death and possible new therapies to treat the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.Among U.S. women, an estimated 21,880 new cases and 13,850 deaths occurred in 2010 from epithelial ovarian cancer, one of the most common forms of ovarian cancer and the most lethal gynecologic cancer in women.Previously, Kathleen M. Mulder, Ph.D., professor, biochemistry and molecular...