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New Drug Reverses Even ‘Untreatable’ Cancers – London Telegraph
Reovirus, which lives in human respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts without causing any symptoms, can help magnify the effects of radiotherapy in treating even the most advanced cancers, laboratory tests have shown.
Tumours shrank or stopped growing in every patient who underwent radiotherapy coupled with a new drug, Reolysin, which contains particles of reovirus.
One patient had a large tumour mass in a salivary gland which was reduced in size enough to be surgically removed after undergoing the treatment. Another who was close to death with a serious form of spreading skin cancer was still alive 17 months later.
A total of 23 patients with a range of solid tumours including lung, bowel, ovarian and skin cancers took part in the clinical trial. All had stopped responding to traditional therapies but were able to get some pain relief from radiation treatment.
The patients were given between two and six injections of Reolysin in escalating doses, combined with low or high dose radiotherapy.
The primary aim was to test whether the treatment was safe, but researchers also measured tumour responses for 14 patients. Tumours either shrank or stopped growing in every case, the scientists reported in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
The side effects of the treatment were mild and typical of patients receiving radiotherapy alone.
Dr Kevin Harrington, the study leader from the Institute of Cancer Research in London, said: “The absence of any significant side effects in this study is extremely reassuring for future trials in patients receiving radiotherapy with the aim of curing their cancer.”
The next step will be to investigate the effects of the treatment in patients with newly-diagnosed cancers that would normally be treated with radiotherapy alone, he said.
Dr Brad Thompson, president and chief executive of Oncolytics Biotech Inc, the Canadian manufacturers of Reolysin, said: “We believe that this study clearly demonstrates that the combination of low dose radiation and Reolysin is well tolerated and that the very high response rate warrants further investigation.”
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Liar Pol’s Polls Viet-Conked – New York Post
US Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal’s double-digit lead in the polls plummeted yesterday, as another instance of him falsely claiming he had served in Vietnam surfaced.
Democrat Blumenthal – who had easily been the front-runner to replace retiring Sen. Chris Dodd – has dropped to a 3-percentage-point lead over Republican challenger Linda McMahon, according to a Rasmussen poll.
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Initial Jobless Claims Jump By 25,000 – MarketWatch
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits shot up 25,000 in the latest week, indicating continued weakness in the U.S. job market, government data showed.
Initial jobless claims rose to 471,000 in the week ended May 15, the highest level in a month, the Labor Department reported Thursday. “This is horrible,” chief U.S. economist Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics said.
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Paintings Worth Euro-500M Stolen From Paris Museum – Forbes
A lone thief stole five paintings worth a total of half a billion euros, including works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist Thursday from a Paris modern art museum.
The paintings were reported missing early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower, according to Paris police.
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Top Obama Adviser Says White House Will Reach Out To “Moderate” Elements Of Hezbollah – First Things
Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan told an audience yesterday that the Obama Adminstration wants to reach out to the “moderate” elements of the Hezbolllah terror group.
Hezbollah is funded by Iran and its goal is to destroy Israel. That about tells you right there what the Obama Administration thinks of Israel. These people are crazy and dangerous.
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From Banning Books To Banning Blogs – Reason
The Obama administration has announced plans to regulate the Internet through the Federal Communications Commission, extending its authority over broadband providers to police web traffic, enforcing “net neutrality.”
Last week, a congressional hearing exposed an effort to give another agency the Federal Election Commission-unprecedented power to regulate political speech online.
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NJ Mom Recognizes Census Worker As Sex Offender – NBC-Philadelphia
A man with a U.S. census badge knocked on Amy Schmalbach’s door on May 4. Thinking that answering the door to a government worker was a safe bet, she did. And then she wondered why he looked so familiar.
As soon as the man left, Schmalbach realized where she had seen him before: on the state’s sex-offender registry. She had given names and birthdates of her family to the man who called himself “Jamie.”
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Thousands Protest In New General Strike In Greece – AFP
About 17,000 people demonstrated in the capital and around 5,000 more marched in Thessaloniki, calling on the Socialist government to take back a controversial pension reform and pay cuts.
The demonstrations called by Greece’s main unions and the communist workers’ syndicate shut down the centre of Athens for the second time this month in a movement against tough fiscal measures imposed to clinch a vital EU-IMF loan.
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