New drug combination boosts survival in advanced stomach and esophageal cancers
Patients whose metastatic stomach or esophageal cancers were driven by a mutatedHER2 gene had markedly improved response rates and survival when bevacizumab... Read More
Breath test ‘could give clues to stomach cancer risk’
A simple breath test could help predict whether people with gut problems are at high risk of developing stomach cancer, an early... Read More
Parsing The Latest Evidence That Aspirin And Coffee Keep Cancer Away
Anyone looking for an excuse to get through the morning staff meeting by popping an aspirin and downing a lot of coffee... Read More
Scientists have found that most gastric tumors harbor genetic alterations that may respond to targeted therapies
Background. Gastric cancer (GC) is a major global cancer burden and the second most common cause of global cancer-related deaths. The addition... Read More
Oncolytics Biotech is seeking orphan-drug status for a virus-based treatment for gastric cancer
Brad Thompson, CEO of Oncolytics Biotech, was thrilled to see CBS’ 60 Minutes bring attention to virus-based cancer treatments a couple weeks... Read More
GI Specialist Discusses Hurdles in Targeting Gastric
Alok A. Khorana, MD, specializes in predictive factors in gastrointestinal oncology and in cancer-associated thrombosis at the Cleveland Clinic, which he joined... Read More
Genetic signatures of gastric cancer cell lines may point to the best treatments for particular patients
Cell lines recapitulate cancer heterogeneity without the presence of interfering tissue found in primary tumor. Their heterogeneous characteristics are reflected in their... Read More
Recently published report of genomic research supported by Gastric Cancer Foundation
Metastatic tumor evolution and organoid modeling implicate TGFBR2 as a cancer driver in diffuse gastric cancer.
Columbia U scientists discover Botox suppresses the growth of gastric cancer
Researchers have found a novel approach to treating gastric cancer – using Botox. Normally used commercially for cosmetic and medical procedures, a... Read More
New view of stomach cancer could hasten better therapies
In a massive effort to catalog the molecular causes of stomach cancer, scientists, including researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, have identified four... Read More