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Physician Interpretation Time Dramatically Reduced By Automated Breast Ultrasound
May 05, 2012
Automated breast ultrasound takes an average three minutes of physician time, allowing for quick and more complete breast cancer screening of asymptomatic women with dense breast tissue, a new study shows. Mammography misses more than one-third of cancers in women with dense breasts, said Rachel Brem, MD, lead author of the study... Read More
Why The Immune System Fails To Kill Breast Tumors In Mice
May 05, 2012
A pioneering approach to imaging breast cancer in mice has revealed new clues about why the human immune system often fails to attack tumors and keep cancer in check. This observation, by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), may help to reveal new approaches to cancer immunotherapy... Read More
JAM-A Protein Keeps Blood Clots In Check
May 05, 2012
Cut your toe, and platelets -- those disc-shaped cells circulating in your blood -- rush to the scene, clumping together to plug the leak. But when an unwanted clot forms in an artery, and an overaccumulation of platelets blocks blood flow, a heart attack or stroke occurs, too often with fatal results... Read More
JAM-A Protein Keeps Blood Clots In Check
May 05, 2012
Cut your toe, and platelets -- those disc-shaped cells circulating in your blood -- rush to the scene, clumping together to plug the leak. But when an unwanted clot forms in an artery, and an overaccumulation of platelets blocks blood flow, a heart attack or stroke occurs, too often with fatal results... Read More
Advanced Radiotherapy Linked To Improved Survival Rates Among Elderly Lung Cancer Patients
May 04, 2012
The latest issue of the journal Annals of Oncology reports that a major new study by one of the country's leading cancer centers, the VU University Medical Center (VUMC) in Amsterdam has revealed that widespread use of advanced radiotherapy techniques in the Netherlands has resulted in improved survival rates amongst elderly lung cancer patients... Read More
Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks?
May 04, 2012
Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale to create materials with remarkably varied and new properties, is a rapidly expanding area of research with huge potential in many sectors, ranging from healthcare to construction and electronics... Read More
Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Has Potential To Revive Abandoned Cancer Drug Wortmannin
May 04, 2012
Current nanomedicine research has focused on the delivery of established and novel therapeutics. But a UNC team is taking a different approach. They developed nanoparticle carriers to successfully deliver therapeutic doses of a cancer drug that had previously failed clinical development due to pharmacologic challenges... Read More
Growth Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Halted By Combining Two MTOR Inhibitors
May 04, 2012
The combination of two inhibitors of protein mTOR stops the growth of primary liver cancer and destroys tumour cells, according to a study by researchers of the Group of Metabolism and Cancer at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). The study results are been published on the online edition of the journal Science Translational Medicine... Read More
Decade-Long Study Of HIV Patients Finds Gene Therapy Safe, Lasting
May 04, 2012
HIV patients treated with genetically modified T cells remain healthy up to 11 years after initial therapy, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the new issue of Science Translational Medicine... Read More
Decade-Long Study Of HIV Patients Finds Gene Therapy Safe, Lasting
May 04, 2012
HIV patients treated with genetically modified T cells remain healthy up to 11 years after initial therapy, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the new issue of Science Translational Medicine... Read More
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