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Epeius Biotechnologies Awarded US Patent for Targeted Injectable ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),...in three separate US Phase I/II Trials for recurrent or metastatic cancers of the breast or pancreas and for bone and soft tissue sarcoma respectively.

Pharmamar Initiates A Phase II Study Of Yondelis® In Children With ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma among children 0-14 years, representing nearly 50% of soft tissue sarcomas for this age range with

The depth of soft-tissue masses is unrelated to likelihood of ...  -  Mar 18, 2008
Medicexchange,The NICE guidelines for referral of suspected cancer, released in 2005, advised that referral for suspicion of soft tissue sarcoma should be made if a

One type of cancer is double NJ rate  -  Mar 12, 2008
Asbury Park Press,Incidences of soft tissue sarcoma — defined by the National Cancer Institute as "a cancer that begins in the muscle, fat, fibrous tissue, blood vessels,

Dedicated to public service  -  Mar 24, 2008
Hamilton Spectator,Pavelka battled a number of cancerous tumours from soft tissue sarcoma for nearly three years before he died last Monday. He is survived by his wife Gayle,

Combined Chemotherapy and Radiation for Sarcomas Effective But ...  -  Mar 19, 2008
DG NewsThe trial analysed 64 patients with high-grade soft-tissue sarcoma (8 cm in diameter) of the extremities and body wall. Patients were treated with 3 cycles

Research uncovers differences in cancer treatment between whites ...  -  Feb 26, 2008
The California Aggie Online,..."Blacks were 39 percent more likely to die from their soft-tissue sarcoma than whites," said Steve Martinez, surgical oncologist for the UC Davis Cancer

Sentinel Node Number Predicts 5-Year Melanoma Survival in Database ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
DG News...positive," said investigator Alessandro Testori, MD, Director, Melanoma and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Division, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.

Young Cancer Survivor's Father Helps Others  -  Mar 3, 2008
CancerWiseWith these results in hand, the family traveled to MD Anderson in Houston where Richie was diagnosed with stage 3 spindle cell soft tissue sarcoma.

Vietnam vet fighting leukemia and the VA  -  Mar 17, 2008
Coos Bay World,Type-2 diabetes, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, soft tissue sarcoma, Hodgkinâ€™s disease, multiple myeloma, prostate cancer and respiratory cancers.

Keynote Lecture On Hyperthermia Therapy Receives Standing Ovation ...  -  Mar 3, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),...to the recent milestone in the field of hyperthermic oncology achieved by the EORTC/ESHO soft tissue sarcoma trial under the leadership of Dr. Issels.

An urgent appeal for lifesaving funds  -  Mar 14, 2008
Jewish Herald-Voice,In April 2006, a large tumor had been detected on Haimovich’s left thigh and diagnosed as a soft tissue sarcoma. Several attempts to save the leg were made

GenVec Reports Fourth Quarter and 2007 Year-End Financial Results  -  Mar 13, 2008
Business Wire (press release),...with the issuance of a US patent covering a method of using TNFerade in combination with radiation to treat solid tumor or soft tissue sarcoma.

Zeltia revenues rise but Neuropharma listing postponed  -  Mar 7, 2008
Pharma Times (subscription),...was launched in the UK and Germany and is being rolled out in other European countries for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma, is meeting forecasts.

Marching forward in the 'Death Valley'  -  Mar 6, 2008
Merinews,Leukemia, lymphoma, anemia, soft tissue sarcoma and cancers of the breast, brain, prostate, testis and ovaries are directly related with the impact of

White Plains hangs tough, but AU signee Sullivan, RC Hatch pull away  -  Feb 25, 2008
Anniston Star (subscription),Munroe died this past Wednesday from complications associated with soft-tissue sarcoma, a form of cancer. "I was really proud of our effort," Randall said.

Faith Christian, White Plains must each face powerhouse team today  -  Feb 24, 2008
Anniston Star (subscription),...who died this past Wednesday from complications associated with soft-tissue sarcoma, a form of cancer, will have been draining for his players.

Delayed Diagnosis of Synovial Sarcoma of the Foot  -  Feb 15, 2008
Ortho SuperSite,This article presents a case of a delayed diagnosis of a soft tissue sarcoma and highlights possible pitfalls and causes for such delays in hope of

Disparities Among Patients With Extremity Soft-tissue Sarcomas  -  Jan 23, 2008
Science Daily (press release)..."And we need to focus our efforts toward improving extremity soft-tissue sarcoma treatment and outcomes for all patients, especially for those most at risk.

Soft-Tissue Sarcoma Outcomes Vary Widely by Race, Ethnicity  -  Jan 25, 2008
Cancerpage.com,NEW YORK JAN 24, 2008 (Reuters Health) - The treatment and survival of adults with soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremities varies widely by race and

Racial Disparities Seen in Sarcoma Treatment and Outcomes  -  Jan 22, 2008
MedPage Today,22 -- Outcomes and treatment for patients with extremity soft-tissue sarcoma vary significantly by race and ethnicity, investigators here found.

Blacks More Likely to Die of a Sarcoma, Hispanics to Lose Limbs  -  Jan 22, 2008
BloombergThe cancer, called extremity soft-tissue sarcoma, was linked to ``significant racial and ethnic disparities'' among patients that included the size of their

Marine-based cancer drug rolls out in UK  -  Jan 31, 2008
Pharma Times (subscription),...“This is good news for soft tissue sarcoma patients in the UK since we have few effective drugs for the 50%, or so, of patients who develop distant

PET Outdoes CT for Predicting Sarcoma Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy  -  Feb 1, 2008
MedPage Today,...evaluating response to neoadjuvant therapy, Dr. Eilber and colleagues studied 42 patients with resectable biopsy-proven high-grade soft-tissue sarcoma.

Study Results Using the BSD-2000 Presented at International ...  -  Feb 13, 2008
FOXBusinessThe particular focus of this presentation was reducing the risk of early disease progression, as that is a major objective in treating soft-tissue sarcoma

Regional Hyperthermia Added to Chemotherapy Reduces Risk of Early ...  -  Feb 11, 2008
DG News...with high-grade soft-tissue sarcoma (STS), according to findings reported here at the 19th International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment (ICACT).

Threshold Provides Update on Glufosfamide Program  -  Jan 22, 2008
FDA news (subscription),Threshold Pharmaceuticals has completed two Phase II trials with glufosfamide — one in soft tissue sarcoma patients and one in patients with

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Proceeds to Full Enrolment in US Phase II ...  -  Jan 31, 2008
PharmaLive.com (press release),Eligible patients must have a bone or soft tissue sarcoma metastatic to the lung deemed by their physician to be unresponsive to or untreatable by standard

Central cares  -  Feb 17, 2008
Munster Times,27, about a year after being diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma. Students and staff members at Central Elementary School, where Johnson was a teacher's

Clairton VFD hosting benefit Saturday  -  Feb 8, 2008
McKeesport Daily News,The National Cancer Institute classifies the soft tissue sarcoma as rare. It occurs most often in young adults. To read this and all the stories in today's

7-Year-Old Girl Fights Against Cancer  -  Feb 14, 2008
KMBC.com,..."It was a soft-tissue sarcoma, a very serious, very rare type of cancerous tumor," Cheryl Clevenger told KMBC's Dan Weinbaum. The cancer is in Lily's jaw

New drug - Yondelis  -  Jan 28, 2008
Healthcare RepublicA new option is now available for patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma. Yondelis (trabectedin) is indicated after failure of anthracyclines and

BSD-2000/3D/MR System Given ‘Grand Opening’ at Erlangen University ...  -  Jan 23, 2008
Business Wire (press release),Advanced cervical cancer, locally recurring rectal cancer, recurrent breast cancer, bladder cancer, soft tissue sarcoma and malignant melanoma are all

Child cancer may up maternal risk  -  Jan 22, 2008
Irish Health,Previous research has found a high risk of breast cancer in women whose children have soft tissue sarcoma. However the link between breast cancer and other

NDP calls for better Agent Orange compensation  -  Jan 25, 2008
CBC New Brunswick,The inquiry found the base-area rates of soft tissue sarcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the two illnesses most often linked to herbicides, were virtually

Threshold announces mixed results from glufosfamide program  -  Jan 22, 2008
Pharmaceutical Business ReviewBy Staff Writer The soft tissue sarcoma trial was completed and provided evidence of clinical activity. The initial analysis of the results supports

Synovial Sarcoma: Clinicopathologic Features, Treatment, and Prognosis  -  Dec 17, 2007
Ortho SuperSite,Adjuvant chemotherapy for soft tissue sarcoma is controversial and is not a standard option for adult soft tissue sarcoma. 16,25,33 However, recent reports

Zeltia completes administration to launch Yondelis for STS ...  -  Dec 27, 2007
Forbes,SA unit has completed all the administration required to launch its Yondelis drug in Spain for use in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma (STS).

Genmab A/S - R1507 Antibody to Enter Phase II Study to Treat Sarcoma  -  Dec 20, 2007
FOX NewsOf these approximately 8000 are cases of soft tissue sarcoma and 2000 are sarcoma of the bone. Genmab is a leading international biotechnology company

Innovex to Promote PharmaMar's Yondelis(R) Cancer Treatment  -  Dec 3, 2007
Earthtimes,19 by PharmaMar in the United Kingdom and Germany, following its approval by the European Medicines Agency for use in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma.

Court ruling impacts 'Agent Orange' vets  -  Dec 24, 2007
Alexandria Echo Press,The 11 diseases presumed to be service connected for such veterans are chloracne, porphyria cutanea tarda, soft-tissue sarcoma (other than osteosarcoma,

Bubba's chemo: Local oncologist’s dog gets human treatment for cancer  -  Dec 20, 2007
McKinney Courier Gazette,Vets found out Bubba had soft tissue sarcoma. They recommended to Birenbaum that Bubba have his entire back leg and hip amputated.

CuraGen and TopoTarget Announce Initiation of an NCI-sponsored ...  -  Dec 19, 2007
CNNMoney.comAML, mesothelioma, soft tissue sarcoma, MDS, and liver, colorectal, and ovarian cancers, either alone or in combination with anti- cancer therapies.

Director of pediatric oncology appointed to growing cancer team  -  Dec 11, 2007
Media Newswire (press release),He is a member of the Children's Oncology Group Subcommittee for Soft Tissue Sarcoma and the American Association for Cancer Research.

Families Decry Anti-Nuke Web Site  -  Dec 23, 2007
TheDay,Beacham and Kathleen Graham of Mystic, whose son Chris died of soft tissue sarcoma at age 23 and was also listed on the Web site, say they still have vivid

Zoe was an inspiration to everyone  -  Nov 30, 2007
Scotsman,Soft tissue sarcoma - a form of cancer. The doctors, though, were optimistic she would beat it and Zoe was too. And at first, she did.

Zeltia to list neurological disease unit  -  Dec 14, 2007
Expatica Spain,Zeltia unit Pharmar got the go-ahead from the European authorities earlier this year to begin selling Yondelis for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma,

San Jose police raise money for officer's cancer-stricken wife  -  Dec 4, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,Michelle Perea, wife of San Jose police officer Mike Perea, had been given less than a year to live after being diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma,

Imus returns to airwaves  -  Dec 4, 2007
Louisville Courier-Journal,Two days after Thomas Allen's friends held a benefit concert for him at A Family Adventure, the 14-year-old died of soft tissue sarcoma, a type of cancer.

A Look At The Spanish Press  -  Dec 20, 2007
Rundtownnews.co.uk,It is extremely effective in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma, which is a very aggressive form of cancer affecting muscle, bone and blood vessel tissues

Thomson Scientific Publishes its Third Quarter Issue of The Ones ...  -  Nov 29, 2007
CNNMoney.com...this quarter is Yondelis, developed by PharmaMar for patients who have not responded to previous regimens in their treatment of soft tissue sarcoma.

The end of pesticide-run agriculture key for Kaua‘i  -  Dec 2, 2007
Lihue Garden Island,...that they knew dioxin (in Agent Orange) was a human carcinogen associated with soft-tissue sarcoma, Hodgkin’s disease and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Lilly Showcases Pipeline Opportunities to Wall Street, Sets 2008 ...  -  Dec 6, 2007
CNNMoney.com...molecule being studied for non-small-cell lung cancer and melanoma, with new Phase II studies now initiated for ovarian cancer and soft-tissue sarcoma.

CuraGen and TopoTarget Report Belinostat Results Presented at ASH ...  -  Dec 10, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),AML, mesothelioma, soft tissue sarcoma, myelodysplastic syndrome, and liver, colorectal, and ovarian cancers, either alone or in combination with other

Three Local Men Overcome The Challenges Of Losing Limbs  -  28 Nov 2007
Cape Cod Chronicle,He had been diagnosed with a form of soft tissue sarcoma in the lining of his knee, “so rare that only 20 people in the world, five people in the United

QUMAS to Provide pharmamar With Comprehensive Regulatory Content ...  -  28 Nov 2007
Market Wire (press release)...pharmamar commercializes Yondelis® for the treatment of advanced soft tissue sarcoma, after failure of anthracyclines and ifosfamide, or who are unsuited to

radiation dose tied limb fractures in patients with soft tissue ...  -  Nov 5, 2007
DG News2007 -- researchers reviewing hospital records said limb fractures in patients undergoing radiotherapy for treatment of soft tissue sarcoma can be

venous thromboembolism in patients with primary bone or soft ...  -  Nov 1, 2007
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)...or soft-tissue sarcomas. methods: the medical records of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of primary bone or soft-tissue sarcoma who had presented to

Ex-Threshold execs land severance packages  -  Nov 26, 2007
Bizjournals.com,It also is enrolling patients in a Phase II trials of the drug glufosfamide for soft tissue sarcoma. Last month, Threshold was notified by the NASDAQ market

keryx biopharmaceuticals, inc. announces positive preliminary ...  -  Nov 5, 2007
CNNMoney.com...krx-0401 (perifosine) has been shown to be quite active in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma (asco 2007). responding patients experienced very little

journal of the american podiatric medical association  -  Nov 16, 2007
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association (subscription)...bisogno g, casanova m, et al: childhood leiomyosarcoma: a report from the soft tissue sarcoma italian cooperative group. ann oncol 12: 1163, 2001.

mum walks tall in zoe's place  -  Nov 23, 2007
Scotsman,...five of zoe's friends joined mrs king on the catwalk in tribute to the teenager, who battled with soft tissue sarcoma for three years. teenagers who have

clinical trial investigators update wall street on progress and ...  -  Nov 14, 2007
CNNMoney.com...a phase ii study of brostallicin in relapsed/refractory soft tissue sarcoma met its pre-defined activity and safety hurdles and resulted in a first-line

curagen and topotarget Announce Presentations on Belinostat at the ...  -  Nov 26, 2007
CNNMoney.comAML, mesothelioma, soft tissue sarcoma, MDS, and liver, colorectal, and ovarian cancers, either alone or in combination with anti- cancer therapies.

threshold pharmaceuticals reports third quarter 2007 financial results  -  Nov 7, 2007
CNNMoney.com...the company anticipates completing enrollment and reporting results in the soft tissue sarcoma phase 2 trial as well as analyzing preliminary efficacy

memory of zoe inspires charity fundraising night  -  Nov 5, 2007
Scotsman,17, died just days before her 18th birthday after battling soft tissue sarcoma for three years. the teenager, from uphall in west lothian,

parading hope, spirit  -  Nov 19, 2007
Glens Falls Post-Star,...jacob, is just 7. the two share a special bond: both have dealt with cancer. woll had soft tissue sarcoma and is now a cancer survivor. jacob finished

threshold to cut a quarter of workforce  -  Oct 29, 2007
Bizjournals.com,...is in a phase i clinical trial. the company also is working to enroll patients in a phase ii trial of the drug glufosfamide in soft tissue sarcoma. it

threshold to cut staff, execs leaving silicon valley / san jose ...  -  Oct 29, 2007
Bizjournals.com,...prodrug designed to exploit low oxygen levels in hypoxic tumor regions, and glufosfamide which is designed for soft tissue sarcoma and ovarian cancer.

tucker's team on today show  -  Nov 13, 2007
York Daily Record,...which has now spread well beyond the district. with his courage in the face of his painful, and sometimes fatal, disease, soft tissue sarcoma. to date,

see tucker's team on the today show  -  Nov 12, 2007
York Daily Record,...was suffering from soft tissue sarcoma, a potentially fatal form of cancer. from the first moment, the players took to tucker as passionately as the

keryx biopharma reveals preliminary phase 2 data showing ...  -  Nov 5, 2007
RTT News,...cell differentiation and cell survival. in the prior studies, krx-0401 has been shown to be quite active in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma.

researchers say biologic therapy may kill cancer without hurting ...  -  Oct 30, 2007
San Antonio Express,...when doctors removed a lemon-sized tumor from his arm, that turned out to be soft-tissue sarcoma. this summer, scott's cancer returned in the form of

liquidstockreport.com: featured stock: qed connect, inc ...  -  Nov 1, 2007
Trading Markets (press release),...and is in phase 2 trials for the treatment of ovarian cancer, small cell lung cancer, and soft tissue sarcoma. the company products also include 2dg,

threshold pharmaceuticals announces corporate realignment  -  Oct 29, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),...glufosfamide. this year, the company plans to complete enrollment and report results in the phase 2 trial of glufosfamide in soft tissue sarcoma and analyze

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