Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of IL-4 receptor and IL-13 expression as diagnostic and/or prognostic markers for tumors, such as colon and pancreas tumors.
Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a combination of human interleukin-4 muteins and chemotherapeutic or pro-apoptotic agents for the prevention and/or treatment of cancer disease.
Abstract: Disclosed are methods of minimizing the risk for a patient of developing pneumonitis during radiotherapy for a thorax-associated neoplasm and compositions for use in such methods. A preferred composition comprises a CD95/CD95L inhibitor. Further disclosed is a method of increasing the radiation dose administered to a patient during radiotherapy for a thorax-associated neoplasm.
Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the purification and amplification in the undifferentiated state of tumoral stem cells form solid tumours which are most resistant to conventional therapies, aiming at devising new tumour markers and therapeutic targets both for early diagnosis and for targeted therapeutic strategies.