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New Guidelines For Cervical Cancer Screening
Mar 16, 2012
Women ages 21 to 65 should have a Pap smear every three years, according to new guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Based on the evidence, women between the ages of 30 and 65 can safely extend the screening interval to once every five years if they undergo the humanpapillomavirus (HPV) test at the same time as the Pap... Read More
Exposure To Cadmium Increases Risk Of Breast Cancer
Mar 16, 2012
A recent study, published in Cancer Research , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, explains that dietary cadmium, which is a metal found in fertilizers used on farms and is very toxic, can potentially pose a risk of breast cancer. Agneta Akesson, Ph... Read More
New Treatments For Breast Cancer A Possibility
Mar 16, 2012
A new study by University of Kentucky researchers provides insight into developing new treatment strategies for basal-like breast cancer, commonly known as triple negative breast cancer. This cancer is associated with early metastasis and resistance to chemotherapy and occurs at women at a younger age... Read More
Genetic Evolution Of Leukemia Mapped
Mar 16, 2012
The diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood cancer, often causes confusion. While some patients can be treated with repeated blood transfusions, others require chemotherapy, leaving some uncertainty about whether the syndromes actually are cancer. Now, using the latest DNA sequencing technology, scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St... Read More
PSA Screening Reduces Prostate Cancer Mortality, But Not All-Cause Mortality
Mar 15, 2012
Prostatic-specific antigen (PSA) testing appears to considerably reduce mortality from prostate cancer over an 11-year period, but has no significant impact on all-cause mortality, a European study published in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) reported today. Fritz H. Schröder, M.D... Read More
Cancer Care Outcomes Better In Specialized Cancer Centers
Mar 15, 2012
In a review of recent studies, researchers from The Cochrane Library, reveal that specialized cancer centers may help improve survival rates for cancer patients. ,The team discovered that when women with gynecological cancer were treated in specialist centers, they lived longer than those treated in non-specialist cancer centers... Read More
Gene Known To Protect Against Cancer Can Also Promote Tumor Growth
Mar 15, 2012
Can a gene simultaneously protect against cancer and favor its growth? Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre have discovered a gene with this double-edged property and suspect there may be many more that share it. In the words of Oscar Fernandez Capetillo, head of the group responsible for the study, this gene "can be both Dr. Jekyll and Mr... Read More
A New Approach To Faster Anticancer Drug Discovery
Mar 15, 2012
Tracking the genetic pathway of a disease offers a powerful, new approach to drug discovery, according to scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine who used the approach to uncover a potential treatment for prostate cancer, using a drug currently marketed for congestive heart failure... Read More
In Leukemia, Discovery Of Mer Protein In Cancer Cells' Nuclei Offers Another Place To Target This Known Cause Of Cancer
Mar 15, 2012
Since the mid-1990s, doctors have had the protein Mer in their sights - it coats the outside of cancer cells, transmitting signals inside the cells that aid their uncontrolled growth... Read More
Discovery Of New Compound That Rapidly Kills Liver Cancer In Mice
Mar 15, 2012
Scientists have identified a new compound that rapidly kills hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells, the most common form of liver cancer and fifth most common cancer worldwide, while sparing healthy tissue. The compound, Factor Qunolinone Inhibitor 1 (FQI1), works by inhibiting an oncogene originally discovered by a team of researchers led by Devanand Sarkar, M.B.B.S., Ph.D... Read More
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