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New Findings For Glioblastoma Presented At AACR
Apr 09, 2012
Physician-scientists from University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center's Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented new research findings in 24 presentations at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Chicago, Illinois... Read More
Stem Cells Turned Cancerous By Arsenic, Spurring Tumor Growth
Apr 09, 2012
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered how exposure to arsenic can turn normal stem cells into cancer stem cells and spur tumor growth. Inorganic arsenic, which affects the drinking water of millions of people worldwide, has been previously shown to be a human carcinogen. A growing body of evidence suggests that cancer is a stem-cell based disease... Read More
Racial Differences In Breast Cancer Risk Influenced By Vitamin D
Apr 09, 2012
American women of African ancestry are more likely than European Americans to have estrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancer. There continues to be discussion about the role of low levels of vitamin D in the development of breast cancer for these women... Read More
Multiple Faces Of Deadly Breast Cancer Revealed
Apr 09, 2012
An international team of scientists, including four at Simon Fraser University, has made a discovery that will change the way the most deadly form of breast cancer is treated. The journal Nature has just published the team's findings online in the paper The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple negative breast cancers... Read More
New Cell And Animal Model Of Inflammatory Breast Cancer Developed By Researchers
Apr 09, 2012
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very aggressive, often misunderstood type of cancer that is diagnosed more frequently in younger women compared with other types of breast cancer. The five-year survival rate is between 25 and 50 percent - significantly lower than the survival rate for other types of breast cancer... Read More
Nanostars Deliver Cancer Drugs Direct To Nucleus
Apr 08, 2012
Scientists at Northwestern University in the US have developed a simple, specialized, star-shaped gold nanoparticle that can deliver drugs directly to the nucleus of a cancer cell. They write about their work in a paper published recently in the journal ACS Nano. Senior author Dr Teri W... Read More
Embarrassment, Social Stigma May Discourage Obese White Women From Seeking Colon Cancer Screening
Apr 08, 2012
A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that obese white women may be less likely than normal-weight counterparts and African-Americans of any weight or gender to seek potentially lifesaving colon cancer screening tests... Read More
First Targeted Nanomedicine To Enter Human Clinical Studies
Apr 08, 2012
A team of scientists, engineers and physicians from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Harvard Medical School (HMS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), BIND Biosciences, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Wayne State University Karmanos Cancer Institute, and Weill Cornell Medical College have found promising effects... Read More
Nanostars Deliver Cancer Drugs Direct To Nucleus
Apr 07, 2012
Scientists at Northwestern University in the US have developed a simple, specialized, star-shaped gold nanoparticle that can deliver drugs directly to the nucleus of a cancer cell. They write about their work in a paper published recently in the journal ACS Nano. Senior author Dr Teri W... Read More
Trials Show Promise Of Human Virus To Treat Head And Neck Cancer Patients
Apr 07, 2012
A naturally-occurring harmless human virus may be able to boost the effects of two standard chemotherapy drugs in some cancer patients, according to early stage trial data published in Clinical Cancer Research... Read More
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