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Researchers Exploring Keys To Melanoma Progression
Jul 21, 2011
Melanoma is devastating on many fronts: rates are rising dramatically among young people, it is deadly if not caught early, and from a biological standpoint, the disease tends to adapt to even the most modern therapies, known as VEGF inhibitors... Read More
Questioning The Benefit Of PET In Malignant Melanoma
Jul 21, 2011
The relevance of positron emission tomography (PET) alone or in combination with computed tomography (CT) in patients with malignant melanoma cannot be currently assessed due to a lack of meaningful studies. This is the result of a final report published by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) on 20 July 2011... Read More
SBRT For Medically Inoperable Early Stage Lung Cancer A Key Topic For Elekta Presenters At Lung Cancer Conference
Jul 20, 2011
During the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer, leading users of Elekta Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) technology presented their findings on the use of SBRT to treat early stage, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The most common form of lung cancer, NSCLC arises from a number of causes, including active smoking, passive smoking (secondhand smoke), and exposure to other carcinogens... Read More
A Driving Force Behind The Spread Of An Aggressive Type Of Lung Cancer Identified By Cancer Biologists
Jul 20, 2011
A major challenge for cancer biologists is figuring out which among the hundreds of genetic mutations found in a cancer cell are most important for driving the cancer's spread... Read More
Researchers Discover Possible Drug Targets For Common Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Jul 20, 2011
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered a novel interaction between two proteins involved in regulating cell growth that could provide possible new drug targets for treating diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the most common type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma... Read More
Some Cutaneous HPV Types May Be Involved In Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Development
Jul 20, 2011
Non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common form of malignancy in adult Caucasian populations, with more than a million cases recorded each year in the USA alone. Lifestyle risk factors... Read More
Genes Vital To Preventing Childhood Leukemia Identified By Research
Jul 20, 2011
Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have identified genes that may be important for preventing childhood leukemia. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the blood that occurs primarily in young children. It's frequently associated with mutations or chromosomal abnormalities that arise during embryonic or fetal development... Read More
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology
Jul 20, 2011
How Flu Virus Spreads To College Community: Major Implications for Control Many different strains of the H1N1 influenza virus were represented among 57 students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) who were infected during the epidemic in the fall of 2009, according to a paper in the July Journal of Virology... Read More
Study Reveals Cancer Stem Cells Recruit Normal Stem Cells To Fuel Ovarian Cancer
Jul 19, 2011
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a type of normal stem cell fuels ovarian cancer by encouraging cancer stem cells to grow. Cancer stem cells are the small number of cells in a tumor that drive its growth and spread. Traditional cancer treatments do not kill these cells, which is why cancer treatments often fail... Read More
Study Shows That Screening New Colon Cancer Patients For Lynch Syndrome Would Be Cost-Effective
Jul 19, 2011
Screening every new colon cancer patient for a particular familial disorder extends lives at a reasonable cost, say Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. The team hopes the results will encourage more medical centers to adopt widespread screening policies... Read More
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