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Scientists find surprising new way to kill cancer cells
Mar 25, 2014
Northwestern Medicine scientists have demonstrated that cancer cells - and not normal cells - can be killed by eliminating either the FAS receptor, also known as CD95, or its binding component, CD95 ligand. Read More
Researchers find source of earliest blood cells during development
Mar 25, 2014
Hematopoietic stem cells are now routinely used to treat patients with cancers and other disorders of the blood and immune systems, but researchers knew little about the progenitor cells that give rise to them during embryonic development. Read More
Uterine cancer risks decrease by 81% with bariatric surgery
Mar 24, 2014
Bariatric surgery, or weight-loss surgery, is normally used as a last resort when all other efforts have failed for obese patients who need to lose weight for their health. And now, researchers have found that the weight loss following such surgery significantly reduces the risk of endometrial (uterine) cancer in women. Read More
Study published on the relationship between imaging and OVA1® in assessing risk of ovarian cancer
Mar 24, 2014
A new study of OVA1® clinical performance, titled "The Effect of Ovarian Imaging on the Clinical Interpretation of a Multivariate Index Assay," has been released as an online advance publication of The American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Read More
Leukaemia caused by chromosome catastrophe
Mar 24, 2014
Researchers have found that people born with a rare abnormality of their chromosomes have a 2,700-fold increased risk of a rare childhood leukaemia. In this abnormality, two specific chromosomes are fused together but become prone to catastrophic shattering.Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, or ALL, is the most common childhood cancer. Read More
Harms outweigh benefits for women aged 70 and over in national breast cancer screening programmes
Mar 24, 2014
Extending national breast cancer screening programmes to women over the age of 70 does not result in a decrease in the numbers of cancers detected at advanced stages, according to new research from The Netherlands. Read More
Lymphoma development and progression may be promoted by inhibition of CDK4
Mar 24, 2014
Anticancer agents that target a cell-cycle regulatory protein to inhibit tumor growth might actually promote the development and progression of certain B-cell lymphomas, according to a new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James). Read More
About 6 percent of colorectal cancers are missed by colonoscopy
Mar 24, 2014
About 6 percent of colorectal cancers are diagnosed within three to five years after the patient receives a clean colonoscopy report, according to a population-based study by researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah. Read More
Preclinical study suggests HPV eradicated by AHCC supplement
Mar 24, 2014
Treating cervical cancer cells with AHCC led to the eradication of HPV, human papillomavirus, as well as a decrease in the rate of tumor growth in-vitro and in-vivo, in research presented at the Society of Gynecological Oncology 45th Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer in Tampa, Florida. The study was led by Dr. Judith A. Smith, Pharm.D. Read More
Major mechanism identified that drives kidney cancer progression
Mar 24, 2014
The shortage of oxygen, or hypoxia, created when rapidly multiplying kidney cancer cells outgrow their local blood supply can accelerate tumor growth by causing a nuclear protein called SPOP - which normally suppresses tumor growth - to move out of the nucleus to the cytoplasm, where it has the opposite effect, promoting rapid proliferation. Read More
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