[net-gold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: SKIN CANCER : MEDICAL: PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACOLOGY: DRUG: Targeted Gene Therapy A Melanoma Miracle? New Skin Cancer Drug Appears to Work When Nothing Else Does
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- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:09:19 -0400 (EDT)
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MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: SKIN CANCER :
MEDICAL: PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACOLOGY: DRUG:
Targeted Gene Therapy A Melanoma Miracle?
New Skin Cancer Drug Appears to Work When Nothing Else Does
Targeted Gene Therapy A Melanoma Miracle?
New Skin Cancer Drug Appears to Work When Nothing Else Does
By COURTNEY HUTCHISON
ABC Medical Unit
Aug. 26, 2010
ABC News
<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/
skin-cancer-breakthrough-targeted-drug-treats-advanced-stage/
story?id=11479918>
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<http://tinyurl.com/2f7c6ee>
Gene targeting drug therapy may offer hope for those with
difficult-to-treat advanced-stage skin cancer according to preliminary
data published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
While skin cancer is highly treatable when caught early, once it spreads
to other parts of the body (metastasizes), current treatments are limited
and are effective in only a fraction of patients. The chance of survival
for patients with metastatic melanoma is usually nine months or less.
The new treatment targets a mutation of the protein BRAF, which causes it
to become overactive and cancer-producing in over half of all melanomas.
Treatment with the drug was able to shrink tumors and slow the progression
of the disease for 81 percent of patients who carry that mutation.
"This type of treatment gets to the root of what caused the cancer," says
lead author Dr. Keith Flaherty, and provides hope for patients who until
now had few, if any effective treatment options. Flaherty is director of
Developmental Therapeutics at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer
Center
Though it is too early to tell what effect this treatment could have on
the life expectancy of such patients, doctors are calling this drug a
potentially life-saving breakthrough.
"This therapy results in dramatic responses for patients -- it's
phenomenal. I've been taking care of patients with advanced melanoma for
25 years and this is one of the most important breakthroughs we've seen,"
says Dr. Lynn Schuchter, professor of medicine at the Abramson Cancer
Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She administered this drug as
part of the drug trials.
How Gene Targeting Works
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