DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Most cancer deaths occur from metastatic tumors rather than from the primary tumor alone. Although many of the new drugs in the past decade are directed against tumors , changes in overall cancer survival have only been modest. Most cures of cancer are still… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Bladder cancer kills approximately 13,000 Americans per year. At least half of these deaths are preventable with no improvements in screening because they occur in people who were initially diagnosed with superficial bl adder cancer. The problem is that bladder… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Most patients with solid tumors die of tumor recurrence at the same site or metastasis of the tumor to distal sites. An intermediate step in both recurrence and metastasis is a stage called tumor dormancy, where the cancer cells are suppressed by a normal… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In spite of billions of dollars spent in the War on Cancer, cancer-specific mortality has changed little as a result, and the vast majority of cures are produced surgically, not from chemotherapy. The main problem is that even with early detection; most cancers… More