1. And while current experiments are focusing on tumors on or just beneath the skin, the scientists expect to see it employed to treat tumors deeper in the body. 2. Brain tumors traditionally are treated with surgery and radiation. 3. Cancer therapy is moving swiftly toward greater reliance on oral drugs to treat tumors of the breast, colon, lung, pancreas and prostate. 4. Dr. Moulton works in the laboratory of Dr. Judah Folkman, who has pioneered the exploration of capillary-inhibiting substances like endostatin for treating tumors. 5. For the time being, however, Waddell had to treat the tumors in her abdomen. 6. In an odd way, that experiment led directly to a later attempt to treat brain tumors with ganciclovir, a drug for herpes infections. 7. One is used in treating brain tumors and the other is a painkiller called lonoxiam. 8. Pituitary tumors are treated with surgery or radiation. 9. Tests of a promising anticancer agent known as angiostatin have shown that it enhances the effects of radiation in treating human tumors grafted into mice. 10. Taxol is manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and is used to treat tumors, including advanced ovarian and breast cancer, the company Web site said. |