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Tailored, Web-Based Intervention Helped Women Understand Options For Breast Cancer Prevention
Apr 16, 2012
When women at high risk of breast cancer viewed a customized web-based decision guide about prevention options, they were more likely to make a choice about prevention and to feel comfortable with their choice, a new study finds... Read More
During Breast Cancer Treatment, Exercise Improves Quality Of Life
Apr 16, 2012
Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer might fight off distressing side effects and improve psychological well-being by staying off the couch. According to the University of Miami (UM) study, women who are physically active during treatment have less depression and an enhanced quality of life and report less debilitating fatigue... Read More
Identification Of Key Regulator Of Inflammatory Response Could Impact Treatment Of Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes And Other Diseases
Apr 15, 2012
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a gene that plays a key role in regulating inflammatory response and homeostasis. These findings could help lead to the development of innovative methods to reduce the inflammation associated with cancer, type 2 diabetes and other diseases... Read More
Improved Understanding Of Cancer Progression
Apr 15, 2012
Researchers at the Hospital de Mar Research Institute (IMIM) have discovered that the protein LOXL2 has a function within the cell nucleus thus far unknown. They have also described a new chemical reaction of this protein on histone H3 that would be involved in gene silencing, one of which would be involved in the progression of breast, larynx, lung and skin tumours... Read More
Discovery Of Biomarker Family For Chemo Resistant Breast Cancers
Apr 14, 2012
Biomarkers which could help to predict resistance to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients have been identified by researchers from the University of Hull, UK. The researchers found a family of proteins to be twice as prevalent in clinical samples obtained from breast cancer patients who were resistant to chemotherapy than those who were successfully treated... Read More
Huntington's Disease Reduces Cancer Risk
Apr 13, 2012
A study by Swedish researchers published Online First in The Lancet Oncology suggests that people with Huntington's disease or other diseases known as polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases have a lower risk of developing cancer, due to a common genetic mechanism... Read More
Lung Cancer Among Women Still Rising, UK
Apr 13, 2012
Cases of lung cancer among women in the UK continue to rise, according to new figures released by Cancer Research UK on Friday. The leading charity says the rate of lung cancer among women in the UK has risen from 22.2 in every 100,000 women in 1975, to 39.3 today... Read More
Groundbreaking Study Unveils 'Master Switches' In Colon Cancer
Apr 13, 2012
A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a new mechanism by which colon cancer develops. By focusing on segments of DNA located between genes, or so-called "junk DNA," the team has discovered a set of master switches, i.e., gene enhancer elements, that turn "on and off" key genes whose altered expression is defining for colon cancers... Read More
Discovery Of Unique Activity Essential For Meiosis
Apr 13, 2012
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered a key tool that helps sperm and eggs develop exactly 23 chromosomes each. The work, which could lead to insights into fertility, spontaneous miscarriages, cancer and developmental disorders, is published April 13 in the journal Cell. Healthy humans have 46 chromosomes, 23 from the sperm and 23 from the egg... Read More
For Drug-Resistant Cancers, Kinase Test May Yield Big Gains
Apr 13, 2012
In a paper published in the journal Cell, a team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill unveils the first broad-based test for activation of protein kinases "en masse", enabling measurement of the mechanism behind drug-resistant cancer and rational prediction of successful combination therapies... Read More
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