September 19, 2020 12:06 am Published by admin Hello my CS brothers and sisters! I wanted to tell you a story about my journey which might help some of you. Here are some details: –diagnosed in Feb 2017, Grade 1 pelvic CS, spread widely on and around the acetabulum. Offered a hemipelvectomy but refused. –May 2017 started proton radiation at what is now [...]
September 10, 2020 4:51 pm Published by admin On Tuesday, November 17, 2020 from 7:30pm -8:30pm, the Chondrosarcoma CS Foundation, Inc. will host a virtual dialogue using the zoom platform to reach out to sarcoma experts, and oncologists as well as patients diagnosed with Chondrosarcoma and their family members. The forum is entitled: Straight Talk About Chondrosarcoma. This event will provide an opportunity [...]
September 8, 2020 7:07 pm Published by admin Phase 1 Study of INBRX-109 in Subjects With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors Including Sarcomas https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03715933?term=DR5+INBRX109&rank=1 Go to Arm Intervention/treatment Experimental: Dose Escalation INBRX-109 will be escalated (3+3 design) in subjects with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors including sarcomas. Drug: INBRX-109 – multivalent DR5 agonist antibody The active ingredient of INBRX-109 is a [...]
September 5, 2020 12:52 am Published by admin Hello my CS brothers and sisters! I wanted to tell you a story about my journey which might help some of you. Here are some details: –diagnosed in Feb 2017, Grade 1 pelvic CS, spread widely on and around the acetabulum. Offered a hemipelvectomy but refused. –May 2017 started proton radiation at what is now [...]
September 3, 2020 6:30 pm Published by admin A CS Warrior on the Facebook Chondrosarcoma Support Group entered a new Phase 2 clinical trial yesterday specifically for unresectable and metastatic conventional CS that combines a histone deacetylase inhibitor Belinostat (FDA approved for a type of lymphoma) with an experimental DNA hypomethylating agent Guadecitabine (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT04340843). The study is currently recruiting at Columbia Medical Center [...]
September 2, 2020 1:17 am Published by admin In September, we honor the gold ribbon in recognition of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! ✨ Did you know cancer is the second leading cause of death in children under the age of 15? In 2020, approximately 11,000 children ages 1-14 will be diagnosed with cancer. Medical and technological advances, however, now provide that about 85% [...]
September 2, 2020 1:04 am Published by admin Testing the Combination of Belinostat and SGI-110 (Guadecitabine) for the Treatment of Unresectable and Metastatic Conventional Chondrosarcoma clinicaltrials.gov Brief Summary: This phase II trial studies how well belinostat and SGI-110 (guadecitabine) work in treating patients with conventional chondrosarcoma that cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) and has spread to other places in the body (metastatic). [...]
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August 29, 2020 12:52 am Published by admin Schwartz Hunts for Predictive Biomarkers in Soft Tissue Sarcoma Gary K. Schwartz, MD, highlights research that is being done with regard to genomic signatures in sarcoma, challenges faced with immunotherapy, and where the field is headed. Gary K. Schwartz, MD Although several research efforts have been dedicated to evaluating the use of immunotherapy in patients [...]
August 16, 2020 3:34 am Published by admin Targeting the Multidrug Transporter Ptch1 Potentiates Chemotherapy Efficiency Abstract One of the crucial challenges in the clinical management of cancer is resistance to chemotherapeutics. Multidrug resistance (MDR) has been intensively studied, and one of the most prominent mechanisms underlying MDR is overexpression of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. Despite research efforts to develop compounds [...]
