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New screening tool could speed development of ovarian cancer drugs
Feb 12, 2015
University of Chicago Medicine researchers have built a model system that uses multiple cell types from patients to rapidly test compounds that could block the early steps in ovarian cancer... Read More
Previously unknown genomic regions found in African American families with breast cancer
Feb 12, 2015
Supports hypothesis that there may be genetic breast cancers specific to that populationThe "Jewels in our Genes" study, led by University at Buffalo researcher Heather Ochs-Balcom, has uncovered... Read More
Lung screening guidelines improve on study findings
Feb 12, 2015
Lung-RADS provides framework for lung cancer screeningsA set of guidelines developed to help standardized lung cancer screening would have generated considerably fewer false-positives than the... Read More
Cancer's ability to 'hijack' regulatory mechanism increases metastasis
Feb 12, 2015
MD Anderson study finds connective tissue cross-links are key to epithelial lung cancer spreadWhen skyscrapers go up, contractors rely on an infrastructure of steel beams and braces. Read More
Keck Medicine of USC researchers trace origins of colorectal cancer tumor cells
Feb 12, 2015
Big Bang' model of tumor growth provides view into how to stop cancer before it startsFor the first time, Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) cancer researchers have... Read More
A public-private research collaboration leads to an unexpected discovery in patients with drug-resistant leukemia
Feb 11, 2015
An international joint effort between University of Helsinki and Pfizer researchers has led to the discovery of a new opportunity to treat drug-resistant leukemia with an approved renal cancer drug. Read More
Ninety per cent approve of cancer screening but screening uptake is lower, UK
Feb 11, 2015
Nine in 10 people think that cancer screening is 'almost always a good idea' despite the fact that screening uptake is lower, a Cancer Research UK study* in the British Journal of Cancer shows. Read More
British scientists launch project to map haematological cancer DNA and provide a guide to diagnosis and selection of best treatments
Feb 11, 2015
UK researchers have launched an ambitious project to analyse samples from over 20,000 blood cancer patients to identify how differences in their cancer cells' DNA can influence the success of... Read More
Size of biomarker in transplanted blood cells associated with improved survival following transplantation
Feb 11, 2015
Among patients with severe aplastic anemia who received stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor, longer leukocyte (white blood cells) telomere length (a structure at the end of a chromosome)... Read More
Iron supplementation improves hemoglobin recovery time following blood donation
Feb 11, 2015
Among blood donors with normal hemoglobin levels, low-dose oral iron supplementation, compared with no supplementation, reduced the time to recovery of the postdonation decrease in hemoglobin... Read More
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