Data presented at the 10th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (WCGC) in Barcelona confirm that Avastin (bevacizumab) significantly improves survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer regardless of whether they have mutation in a gene known as K-Ras.

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MAPUTO (Reuters) Jun 13 - Mozambique has approved the construction of a $23 million pharmaceutical plant that will manufacture drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, the African nation’s deputy health minister said on Friday.

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Peruvian doctors are to perform clinical tests to verify the efficacy of the therapeutic vaccine launched in Cuba to prolong a lung cancer patients’ life, said today the director of Peru’s National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN), Carlos Vallejos.

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PHILADELPHIA – People who have never smoked but whose cells cannot efficiently repair environmental insults to DNA are at higher risk of developing lung cancer than those with effective genomic repair capability, according to researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

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NEW YORK (June 26, 2008) - The Mesothelioma Center within the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center is now recruiting patients for a clinical research study of a new targeted radiation and chemotherapy protocol for pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung’s lining that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos.

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The Mesothelioma Center within the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center is now recruiting patients for a clinical research study of a new targeted radiation and chemotherapy protocol for pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung’s lining that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos.

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) Jun 13 - A South African court on Friday issued an order banning unauthorised clinical trials of vitamin therapies for AIDS conducted by a team including a former adviser to President Thabo Mbeki.

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European drug regulators said today that cancer patients with a “reasonably long life-expectancy” should get blood transfusions rather than take anemia drugs. A statement from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA).

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UroToday.com - In the online version of European Urology, Dr. Michelle Ramirez and colleagues from UC Davis discuss present applications of PSA doubling time (PSADT). Where PSADT is most applicable in managing patients with prostate cancer is emphasized.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) Jun 19 - Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on Wednesday urged the U.S. Senate to pass a bill that would more than triple spending to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and other parts of the world.

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