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UV Camera Reveals Cancer-Causing Skin Damage
May 11, 2012
With high UV levels continuing in Queensland this autumn, young people are at risk of suffering the worst skin damage they will receive during their lifetime, research from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has found... Read More
Hysterectomies May Be Avoided For Cervical Cancer Patients Using 3-D Image Guided Brachytherapy
May 11, 2012
Delivering radiotherapy directly to cancer of the cervix using 3-D imaging techniques is effective at controlling the return and spread of the disease and, in most cases, avoids the need for hysterectomies, according to research presented at the World Congress of Brachytherapy [1 & 2]... Read More
Radiotherapy Alone Better For HPV-Positive Throat Cancer Patients Than HPV-Negative Patients
May 11, 2012
New findings from a large Danish database of cancer patients suggest that, even though the human papilloma virus (HPV) can trigger throat cancer, patients who are HPV-positive and are light smokers, or don't smoke at all, have a good response to treatment using radiotherapy alone, without the addition of chemotherapy with its consequent toxic side-effects... Read More
Identifying A Molecular-Based Treatment For A Viral Skin Cancer
May 11, 2012
Four years after they discovered the viral roots of a rare skin cancer, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and the School of Medicine have now identified a molecule activated by this virus that, in animal studies, could be targeted to selectively kill the tumor cells. The treatment will soon be tested in patients... Read More
Identifying A Molecular-Based Treatment For A Viral Skin Cancer
May 11, 2012
Four years after they discovered the viral roots of a rare skin cancer, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and the School of Medicine have now identified a molecule activated by this virus that, in animal studies, could be targeted to selectively kill the tumor cells. The treatment will soon be tested in patients... Read More
Whole-Genome Sequencing Of 25 Melanoma Tumors Confirms Role Of Sun Damage While Revealing New Genetic Alterations
May 11, 2012
Melanoma - the deadliest and most aggressive form of skin cancer - has long been linked to time spent in the sun. Now a team led by scientists from the Broad Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has sequenced the whole genomes of 25 metastatic melanoma tumors, confirming the role of chronic sun exposure and revealing new genetic changes important in tumor formation... Read More
Study Is First To Show Feasibility And Efficacy Of A New Use For Autologous Stem Cell Transplant - Protection From Toxic Side Effects Of Chemotherapy
May 11, 2012
For the first time, scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have transplanted brain cancer patients' own gene-modified blood stem cells in order to protect their bone marrow against the toxic side effects of chemotherapy... Read More
Salivary Gland Damage In Head And Neck Cancer May Be Avoided By Stem Cell Sparing Radiotherapy
May 11, 2012
Researchers believe they may have found a way to avoid damaging salivary glands during radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer - a discovery that could improve the quality of life of 500,000 patients a year worldwide with the disease... Read More
Exhaustion Renders Immune Cells Less Effective In Cancer Treatment
May 11, 2012
Rather than stimulating immune cells to more effectively battle cancerous tumors, treatment with the protein interleukin-12 (IL-12) has the opposite effect, driving these intracellular fighters to exhaustion, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The findings appear in the Journal of Clinical Investigation... Read More
Soaking Soybeans In Warm Water Naturally Releases Key Cancer-Fighting Substance
May 11, 2012
Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Hari B... Read More
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