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Mechanism Revealed For Melanoma Drug Resistance

Mar 08, 2012

Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it. Now, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how an advanced form of melanoma gets around an inhibitor, Zelboraf, which targets the mutated BRAF gene... Read More

Reducing Colorectal Cancer Disparities In Alaska Native Population: March GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Mar 08, 2012

In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has published a special issue for March on colorectal cancer. The issue includes a study describing innovative efforts to increase colorectal cancer screening rates in the Alaska Native population, who experience twice the incidence and death rates from colorectal cancer as does the U.S. white population... Read More

A Mechanism Explaining How Tumor Cells Spread To Nearby Organs And Structures, Initiating Metastasis

Mar 08, 2012

Metastasis is responsible for 90% of deaths in patients with cancer. Understanding the mechanisms responsible for this process is one of the top goals of cancer research. The metastatic process involves a series of steps chained where the primary tumour invades surrounding tissues and ends spreading throughout the body... Read More

Early Changes Leading To Breast Tumors Revealed By Spectroscopic Imaging

Mar 08, 2012

Purdue University researchers have created a new imaging technology that reveals subtle changes in breast tissue, representing a potential tool to determine a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and to study ways of preventing the disease... Read More

Blocking Receptor Protein Prevents The Development Of Breast Cancer Metastases In Mice

Mar 08, 2012

In particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer, cancer cells can settle in other organs and form metastases there. Once such metastases form, complete recovery is rare. Consequently, it is enormously important to prevent the metastasisation of the breast cancer cells. The success, however, achieved by using existing forms of therapy is limited... Read More

A Mechanism Explaining How Tumor Cells Spread To Nearby Organs And Structures, Initiating Metastasis

Mar 08, 2012

Possible Genetic Keys To Surviving Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Mar 08, 2012

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom have used two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) - one from the U.S. and one from the U.K. - to detect a novel set of genes found to be associated with epithelial ovarian cancer patient survival... Read More