Industry News
Colonoscopy Still Recommended For Prevention Of Colon Cancers
Oct 23, 2011
Eventually, colon cancers bleed and so tests for blood in stool seem an inexpensive and noninvasive alternative to traditional colonoscopies. In fact, a recent article in the journal Cancer Prevention Research showed that fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) is an accurate predictor of colorectal cancer and can provide a low-cost screening alternative for medically underserved populations... Read More
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology
Oct 23, 2011
Human Norovirus In Groundwater Remains Infective After Two Months Researchers from Emory University have discovered that norovirus in groundwater can remain infectious for at least 61 days. The research is published in the October Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Human norovirus is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis... Read More
Lung Cancer Vaccine Boosts Progression Free Survival
Oct 22, 2011
An experimental vaccine, called TG4010, given together with chemotherapy resulted in significantly more progression free survival in patients with advanced lung cancer compared to those on chemotherapy alone, researchers from the Université de Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France, reported in the journal The Lancet Oncology... Read More
Research Involving Thyroid Hormone Lays Foundation For More Targeted Drug Development
Oct 22, 2011
Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists advances a strategy for taming the side effects and enhancing the therapeutic benefits of steroids and other medications that work by disrupting the activity of certain hormones. The approach relies on a small molecule developed at St. Jude... Read More
Signalling Protein VEGF Helps Renew Stem Cells In Common Skin Cancer
Oct 21, 2011
New research from Belgium, published in Nature this week, reveals that VEGF, a signalling protein that is known to regulate the formation of new blood vessels, has a dual role in helping cancer cells grow and form tumors in skin squamous cell carcinoma, a common cancer in humans... Read More
Huge Economic Burden Of Melanoma In The USA
Oct 21, 2011
According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year between 2004 to 2006, over 45,000 cases of melanoma were reported in 45 states and the District of Columbia. In the U.S. skin cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer... Read More
Proposed Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
Oct 21, 2011
The American Cancer Society (ACS), the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) have proposed new guidelines for the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer... Read More
Regulating Skin Cancer Stem Cells: New Role For Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Oct 20, 2011
Skin squamous cell carcinomas are amongst the most frequent cancers in humans. Recent studies suggest that skin squamous cell carcinoma, like many other human cancers, contain particular cancer cells, known as cancer stem cells, that present increased self-renewal potential that sustain tumor growth. Little is known about the mechanisms that regulate cancer stem cell functions... Read More
The Efficacy Of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Vaccine Demonstrated On Dogs
Oct 20, 2011
An experimental vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is the first veterinary cancer vaccine of its kind that shows an increase in survival time for dogs with spontaneous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma... Read More
Bowel Cancer Patients Need Erectile Dysfunction Advice
Oct 19, 2011
A study published on bmj.com shows that male bowel cancer patients have a high probability of suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) after their treatment yet in spite of this, the majority of patients does not receive sufficient information about the condition... Read More
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