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Glycoprofiling provides new sugar-test to reduce false-positive cancer diagnoses
Mar 12, 2014
The world's most widespread test for ovarian cancer reports false-positives in 94 of 100 diagnosed cases. Now, chemists at the University of Copenhagen working with clinical researchers at University College London have developed a method able to halve the number of false-positives. Read More
Increased risk of cancer later in life for young skin cancer survivors
Mar 12, 2014
Young people who have been diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) related to sun exposure, under the age of 25, face a higher risk of developing melanoma and other cancers later in life, a UK study has shown. Read More
Why knowing about the negative health impacts of tobacco does not prevent smokers from lighting up
Mar 12, 2014
What if the use of a product influenced your perception of it, making you even more susceptible to its positive aspects and altering your understanding of its drawbacks? This is precisely what happens with cigarettes in chronic smokers, according to a recent study by the Institut universitaire en sante mentale de Montreal and Universite de Montreal. Read More
Some chemotherapy drugs induce hyper proliferation in stem cells that could lead to tumor recurrence
Mar 12, 2014
Using a new approach to systematically test chemotherapy drugs in an unusual animal model, a research team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst molecular biologist Michele Markstein, with Norbert Perrimon at Harvard Medical School, report that several have a serious side effect: Inducing hyper proliferation in stem cells that could lead to tumor recurrence. Read More
Personalized treatment prolongs the life of lung cancer patients
Mar 11, 2014
The National Cancer Institute (INCan) has progressed from a rate of nine months of survival to 30 with personalized treatments for patients diagnosed with lung cancer in metastatic stage, i.e., when the disease has spread to different parts of the body. Read More
New approach needed to prostate cancer screening
Mar 11, 2014
The UK needs to invest in testing for those men most at risk of prostate cancer rather than follow a cast-the-net-wide approach targeting the whole population, a leading scientist from The University of Manchester - part of Manchester Cancer Research Centre - has argued at an international conference. Read More
Stem cell study opens door to undiscovered world of biology
Mar 11, 2014
For the first time, researchers have shown that an essential biological process known as protein synthesis can be studied in adult stem cells - something scientists have long struggled to accomplish. Read More
New technique helps scientists map the interactions between proteins at the heart of metastasis, many diseases
Mar 11, 2014
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have devised a new biochemical technique that will allow them and other scientists to delve much deeper than ever before into the specific cellular circuitry that keeps us healthy or causes disease. Read More
Cells appearing normal may actually be harbingers of lung cancer
Mar 11, 2014
Seemingly healthy cells may in fact hide clues that lung cancer will later develop, according to a study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The research is published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Read More
Risk for ovarian cancer increased by being overweight or obese
Mar 11, 2014
Body weight is not a factor that has been widely associated with the the risk of developing ovarian cancer. But new research suggests that women who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop the disease, compared with women of a healthy weight. Read More
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