He founded the charity three years ago to help cancer patients in their final days of life.
These work in dialysis and help cancer patients, but today Amgen is facing an Food and Drug Administration advisory panel because a large clinical trial showed that instead of improving the prognosis of pre-dialysis kidney patients, Aranesp increased stroke.
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While it is far from certain the drugs will help cancer patients, the new concept is generating interest because it would represent a completely new type of therapy that works in a very different way from existing drug classes.
But Avastin failed to help breast cancer patients in a study of 462 women completed last fall.
Oncologists were convinced that super doses of chemo followed by transfusions of bone marrow could help breast cancer patients.
Last year, Avastin failed to help breast cancer patients in a late-stage trial.
Or they could stimulate receptors to help anorexics and cancer patients start shoveling it down.
It might be possible that the technique could help identify patients whose cancer was returning after treatment.
"We need to focus on creating molecular cocktails that can be administered over a long period of time to help patients control cancer, " says Leung.
The cancer society is credited with being the largest and most visible proponent of research funding, prevention and programs to help house and educate cancer patients.
But in one small trial the AstraZeneca drug didn't much help 90% of the cancer patients.
Wyeth's Torisel didn't help small-cell lung cancer patients in a 2007 trial.
Their work might help scientists develop treatments for cancer patients.
Both are cancer patients but opioids are equally needed to help patients with a range of other debilitating conditions such as heart failure, kidney and respiratory illness and neurodegenerative disorders.
In a late-stage clinical trial, Avastin failed to help patients with metastatic breast cancer.
But it turned out to help only a small minority of cancer patients and to sport an array of nasty side effects.
Analysts are expecting a close vote because, although Iressa has disappointed, it does seem to help some of the sickest lung cancer patients.
The drug did seem to help non-small-cell lung cancer patients live slightly longer compared with a control group.
It also has drugs to treat pain in cancer patients and a drug to help control epileptic seizures.
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.
Former cancer patients worked with the design teams to help create the right mood, challenges and visual design for "ReMission's" five games.
The studies include trials aiming to show that can prevent fractures in women with osteoporosis or at risk for it, as well as studies to prove the drug help prevent bone problems in patients with prostate and breast cancer.
Some breast cancer patients already get a specialized gene test to help determine what treatment is right for them.
Natale, the director of the national lung cancer research program for the Salick Health Care subsidiary of AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) and acting medical director at Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center , says a preliminary study may help select which patients will be helped by the drug.
Colleen Doyle, registered dietitian and editor of the cookbook, says the book is full of recipes and eating strategies that patients with all types of cancer can adopt to help deal with the unpleasant side effects of treatment.
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If I try to explain to my elderly male patients why prostate cancer screening doesn't always help, or inform young adults that antibiotics aren't necessary for most sinus infections, it would take much more time than the 15 minutes that I can give for a routine office visit.
The results may help doctors persuade more patients to give monitoring a chance, said a cancer specialist with no role in the research, Dr. Bruce Roth of Washington University in St.
AstraZeneca's shocker Monday: Iressa, which had had an effect in 10% or more of non-small-cell lung cancer patients who had failed chemotherapy, did not seem to help at all when added to patients who were on chemotherapy.
Dietitians help with nutrition, as cancer can change the way the body uses food and patients often lose their appetite from treatment.
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