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Small Molecules Found To Play Complex Roles In Cancer Metastasis
Aug 09, 2011
While they may be small in size, a family of tiny molecules called microRNAs could potentially play a large role in the process of cancer metastasis, or the spread of cancer from one area of the body to another... Read More
Those Who Smoke As Soon As They Wake Up Have Much Higher Cancer Risk
Aug 08, 2011
If you are a smoker who lights up within 30 minutes of waking up in the morning, your risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers is considerably higher than that of smokers who wait more than one hour, researchers from Pennn State College of Medicine in Hershey reported in the journal Cancer... Read More
High Risk Ovarian Cancer Gene Found In Landmark Study
Aug 08, 2011
Women with a faulty copy of a DNA repair gene called RAD51D have a 1 in 11 risk of developing ovarian cancer compared to 1 in 70 in the general population, according to a landmark Cancer Research UK-funded study led by Professor Nazneen Rahman at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) published in the 7 August online issue of Nature Genetics... Read More
Loss Of A Gene Regulator Is Crucial For A Rare Type Of Skin Cancer
Aug 08, 2011
Malignant Sezary syndrome is characterized by the reproduction of a special type of white blood cell in the skin of male and female patients. In contrast to most other skin lymphomas, patients with Sezary syndrome manifest not only skin contamination but also contamination of blood and lymph nodes by degenerate T cells even at the onset of the disease... Read More
Improved Polyp Detection Using Retroflexion Technique During Colonoscopy In The Right Side Of The Colon
Aug 08, 2011
A new study from researchers in Indiana reports that use of a retroflexion technique in the right side of the colon during colonoscopy is safe and results in the detection of additional adenomatous (precancerous) polyps in approximately four percent of patients. This result is comparable to that expected from a second colonoscopy in the forward view... Read More
More Successful Transplants Following Out Of Body Experience For Stem Cells
Aug 07, 2011
New research finds that growing blood stem cells in the laboratory for about a week may help to overcome one of the most difficult roadblocks to successful transplantation, immune rejection. The study, published by Cell Press in the August issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, may lead to more promising therapeutic strategies for transplanting blood stem cells... Read More
Why Some Patients Do Not Respond To Standard Lymphoma Therapy Discovered
Aug 06, 2011
University of Southampton (England) researchers uncovered clues as to why several patients do not react to the standard drug for the blood cancer lymphoma, increasing optimism that additional effective treatments can be designed... Read More
QIAGEN Completes Second U.S.Submission For Companion Diagnostic To Guide Treatment Decisions In Colorectal Cancer
Aug 06, 2011
Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) announced it has completed its second U.S. submission of the therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit for use as a companion diagnostic paired with Erbitux® (cetuximab), a leading drug for treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Erbitux is marketed in the United States by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Eli Lilly and Company... Read More
Unresectable Colon Cancer Fuels US Markets For Colonic, Pyloric And Prostatic Stents
Aug 06, 2011
Global Information, Inc. presents a new market research report, "US Markets for Nonvascular Stents 2011" by Millennium Research Group. A key driver of the growth in colonic and duodenal/pyloric stents will be in the treatment of unresectable colon cancer, which is increasing in incidence and cannot be treated with surgery... Read More
Dietary-Intervention Study For Prostate Cancer Accruing Patients
Aug 06, 2011
Two researchers from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have opened a clinical trial that will assess the impact of dietary change to control prostate cancer... Read More
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