Soon-Shiong offers up a list of scientists who he says are excited by his theory of metastasis.
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In May 2004, just a week before her wedding, she had developed a melanoma metastasis in her left lung.
"These findings provide the first proof in man that aspirin prevents distant cancer metastasis, " the second study's authors concluded.
Blocking similar genes in human tumours, Dr Detmar said, could help prevent or at least reduce the likelihood of metastasis.
Aspirin reduced death due to cancer in patients who developed adenocarcinoma (especially those without metastasis at diagnosis, by around half).
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Other antiplatelet drugs might therefore have a similar effect on risk of metastasis and combining different drugs might increase benefit.
FORBES: Meta-Analysis Adds New Evidence For Cancer Benefits Of Daily Aspirin
Dr DePinho refers to it, jokingly, as metastasis, since a clone of his primary creation will be taking root elsewhere in the country.
It has been a very long and tough road for me suffering nine metastasis, ten major surgeries and losing a few major organs.
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Cannabinoids may cause antitumor effects by various mechanisms, including induction of cell death, inhibition of cell growth, and inhibition of tumor angiogenesis and metastasis.
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It is consistent with Gompertz's growth curves and ties together two essential features of cancer that researchers had long considered separate--cell growth and metastasis.
By studying whether Abraxane works in pancreatic cancer, where many cells are churning out Sparc, he will be able to help solve the mystery of metastasis.
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Moreover, there were significant differences between mutations in the original tumor and the site of metastasis, suggesting the need for additional biopsies as a patient's cancer progresses.
Magic bullets for understanding metastasis "have been proposed again and again, and nothing has ever held up, " says Richard Klausner, former head of the National Cancer Institute and now a principal at the Column Group, a venture capital firm.
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The authors did this comparison because while randomised trials of aspirin could clearly establish the risk of colorectal cancer, several other solid cancers, and of metastasis, these trials lacked the statistical power to establish effects on less common cancers and on cancers in women.
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They found that, with a mean follow-up of 6.5 years, allocation to aspirin reduced risk of cancer with distant metastasis by 36%, risk of adencarcioma (common solid cancers including colon, lung, and prostate cancers) by 46%, and of other solid cancers (eg bladder, kidney) by 18%.
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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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