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WALTHAM, Mass.----ImmunoGen, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company that develops targeted anticancer therapeutics using its Tumor-Activated Prodrug technology, today announced that the posters listed below, which have ImmunoGen authors, will be presented at the 20th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on "Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics" to be held October 21-24, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland.
HARTFORD, Conn.----With so much information in the news these days about genetic testing for cancer, how do you know if you should get tested? Or what kind of test to get, or whether it's covered by your insurance?
Awareness of the BRCA gene test has grown steadily since the mid-1990s.
A paper in this issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine discusses how thickening of the palms can in some cases be an indication of underlying malignancy - in particular, ovarian tumours. This palmar fasciitis or fibrosis - where the tissue on the palms feels hard, almost wooden - sometimes occurs in conjunction with polyarthritis (where multiple joints become arthritic).
Most women obsess more about their breasts than any other body part. We obsess about their size, shape and firmness. We also obsess whether breast pains or lumps are from monthly hormones or something more ominous such as breast cancer.
In 2000, a few months after beating breast cancer, Flo Wrighting decided to host a tea in her home, using the event as a platform to raise awareness of the disease amongst her friends.
Jessica Barton and Sue Haley believe in the importance of a mother's milk. The two new mothers fed their babies Saturday along with seven [...]
Gone are the days when Americans were kept in the dark about the health of their presidents.
ALL MY CHILDREN JR didn't believe Annie's story that someone was stalking her. Zach overheard Annie's counseling session in which she admitted to killing [...]
Ikonisys, a leading provider of next-generation, cell-based diagnostic solutions, today announced positive results from a clinical study conducted by a research group at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University, a laboratory supported by Cancer Research U.K. (CRUK), the country's leading cancer charity. The study validates the company's CellOptics(R) platform and ...
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