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Fitch Downgrades 8 Classes From Duke Funding XIII, Ltd.
MarketWatch -
Duke Funding XIII is a hybrid structured finance (SF) collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that closed on June 27, 2007 and is managed by Duke Funding ...
Duke Energy Reports Second-Quarter 2008 Results
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 11 minutes ago
Year-to-date segment EBIT from continuing operations for Commercial Power was $381 million, compared to $77 million in 2007. Duke Energy International (DEI) ...DUK - OTC:ELGT - CVE:CRC

Durham Herald Sun
First day of football excites Duke
Burlington Times News, NC - Aug 3, 2008
He inherits a Duke team that won one game in 2007 and hasn't notched more than two victories in a season since 2003. The tools for a turnaround may already ...
Lewis works hard to learn system News & Observer
Cutcliffe hopes for fast September start News & Observer
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Blumenherst rested, relaxed and ready to roll
The Register-Guard, OR -
Blumenherst, the three-time college player of the year and three-time ACC champion from Duke, is well-rested physically and mentally and eager to start ...
Rowan County approves Duke Energy incentives
Salisbury Post, NC -
Although the investment topped out under $400 million, the county rebated $7.8 million of $9.5 million taxes paid between 2003 and 2007 on the facility ...
Jamaica's Usain Bolt Vs. US's Tyson Gay Men's 100 Meters
Hartford Courant, United States -
The American hurdlers could also be a factor in an event that the United States traditionally rules, but Robles and Xiang look most likely to duke it out ...
Coaches look to avoid 'de-commitment' by recruits
Durham Herald Sun, NC -
By JACK DALY : The Herald-Sun DURHAM -- With its recent spate of verbal commitments, Duke has 21 high school players who have promised to scrawl their ...

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Grace Mashore: Happy Camper
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My dad went to Duke so I was always told Stanford was if not better, the equivalent?I?ve already realized better?but sort of the Duke of the West Coast, ...
Duke Realty Leases, Builds
GlobeSt. com, NY -
?We?ve had absorption of almost three million sf already this year, that compares to 800000 sf throughout all of 2007,? he says.DRE
Bulk projects signal a healthy market
Indianapolis Star, United States - Aug 3, 2008
... compared with 800000 square feet in all of 2007, Hirschman said. Even so, Duke-Browning's joint venture announced Friday to build the 533520-square-foot ...
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Reference Prices and Deception in Newspaper Advertising -
J Liefeld, LA Heslop - Journal of Consumer Research, 1985 - UChicago Press
... Duke researcher Gavan Fitzsimons talks with NPR's Susan Stamberg about his study ...
Linked to Self-Esteem" November 29, 2007 Growing Up ... More In the News features. ...

Proposed Modifications to the Duke Criteria for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis -
JS Li, DJ Sexton, N Mick, R Nettles, VG Fowler, Jr … - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000 - UChicago Press
... Hygiene Inconsistent at Petting Zoos" June 19, 2007 Observation of ... More In the News
features. ... Proposed Modifications to the Duke Criteria for the Diagnosis of ...

Does willingness to pay for green energy differ by source? -
AM Borchers, JM Duke, GR Parsons - Energy Policy, 2007 - Elsevier
... Available online 22 January 2007. ... implement a complex choice for a hypothetical good
(eg, Duke and Ilvento ... salient at the time because the local news media were ...

Efficacy of communication skills training for giving bad news and discussing transitions to … -
AL Back, RM Arnold, WF Baile, KA Fryer-Edwards, SC … - Arch Intern Med, 2007 - npcrc.org
... School Of Medicine, on March 12, 2007 www.archinternmed ... for the codes used in the
bad news encounter ranged ... of the University of Washington and Duke Uni- versity ...

News track -
C Staff - Emergency, 2007 - portal.acm.org
... of the ACM. Volume 50, Number 3 (2007), Pages 9 ... a new report by researchers from
Duke University and UC ... The San Jose Mercury News reports "America's New Immigrant ...

[CITATION] Improving the Health of the Community: Duke's Experience with Community Engagement.
JL Michener, MPA Susan Yaggy, MBA Michelle Lyn, S … - ACADEMIC MEDICINE, 2008
... Duke ranks seventh among best US hospitals. Available at: (http://www.dukemednews.
duke.edu/news/article.php?id=10079 ). Accessed December 17, 2007. ...

[PDF] Why THE Senate Higher Education Bill Is Good News For Low-Income Adults?And How TO Make It Even … -
J Strawn, AE Duke - Higher Education, 2005 - clasp.org
... ETTER By Julie Strawn and Amy-Ellen Duke September 8, 2005 The ... round. ? Increases
the maximum Pell Grant to $5,100 for 2006-2007. The ...

… Comment on House about Duke Vaccine Trial Provokes Public Response Bigger than CBS Evening News' …
A Holtz - Oncology Times, 2007 - oncology-times.com
... Oncology Times:Volume 29(10)25 May 2007p 60-61. Quick Comment on House about Duke
Vaccine Trial Provokes Public Response Bigger than CBS Evening News' Mention. ...

SMOKING ARTICLE FILTER
P WHITE, M DUKE, W LEWIS - WO Patent WO/2007/104,908, 2007 - wipo.int
... Chapter 2 Demand Filed: 10.06.2007. ... DUKE, Martin, Graham [GB/GB]; c/o British American
Tobacco, R & D Centre, Regents Park Road, Southampton SO15 8TL (GB) (US ...
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AN ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM
MD DUKE - WO Patent WO/2007/120,060, 2007 - wipo.int
... Chapter 2 Demand Filed: 13.11.2007. Int. Class.: E04D 13/18 (2006.01). ... DUKE, Michael
David [GB/NZ]; 10 Ashbury Avenue, Silverdale, Hamilton 3216 (NZ) (US Only). ...
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Two-Drug Combo Tough on Kidney Cancer

Early trial shows promise for interferon, sorafenib together

 

(SOURCE: Duke University, news release, July 30, 2007)

TUESDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- Kidney cancer might have met its match in a new combination of cancer drugs, a new study shows.

Used together, interferon alpha, a drug that boosts the body's ability to fight off tumors and infections, and sorafenib, a drug that cuts off a tumor's blood supply, led to significant tumor shrinkage in 33 percent of patients in a U.S. pilot study.

"We found that by combining a drug that enlists the immune system's help in combating cancer with one that cuts off a tumor's blood supply, we could substantially increase patients' response rates to treatment," lead investigator Dr. Jared Gollob, of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center in Durham, N.C., said in a prepared statement.

Used alone, each drug is only successful in fighting 5 percent to 10 percent of tumors. But the new study finds that the combination works much better. Sorafenib is sold under the brand name Nexavar.

The drugs had an additional benefit, the researchers said, in that the combo therapy doubled the time before tumors began to grow again. According to Gollob, most tumors begin growing again after about five or six months when treated by either drug alone.

Reporting in the Aug. 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Gollob and his research team gave 40 study patients sorafenib in pill form twice daily and interferon alpha injections three time a week for eight weeks. If the patient's tumor had not grown or had shrunk after eight weeks, they repeated the cycle after a two-week break until the tumors disappeared or the cancer got worse. The researchers monitored the tumors using computerized-tomography (CT) scans.

The approach completely destroyed tumors in two of the 40 patients.

Researchers plan to begin a multi-site clinical trial that will analyze the impact of giving patients increasing doses of sorafenib alone after their tumors have shrunk as much as possible on the combination treatment.

According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, about 51,000 people suffer from kidney cancer every year, and almost 13,000 will die from the disease. The majority of patients are men over the age of 45. The cancer is especially deadly, because it very rarely causes symptoms until it has reached an advanced stage. By the time kidney cancer rates stage IV status, it has spread to other organs such as lungs, liver and bones. People are given six months to two years to live once they reach stage IV, and only about 10 percent are alive five years after diagnosis.

The Duke team noted that one of the biggest challenges facing doctors and patients with kidney cancer is the cancer's resistance to chemotherapy, radiation and other common cancer-fighting tools.

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To learn more about kidney cancer visit the U.S. National Cancer Institute
 
 
 
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