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Pomegranate, Green Tea, Turmeric And Broccoli May Help Fight Prostate Cancer
Jun 10, 2013
British researchers have scientifically proven that broccoli, turmeric, green tea and pomegranate help fight the most common cancer in men in the United States and the United Kingdom - prostate cancer... Read More
Women Can Be Screened Years Later Than Men With 'Virtual Colonoscopy'
Jun 10, 2013
A new study has found that women can be screened for colorectal cancer at least five to 10 years later than men when undergoing an initial "virtual colonoscopy." Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings may help establish guidelines for the use of this screening technique, which is less invasive than a traditional colonoscopy... Read More
Stopping Tumor Survival In Low-Oxygen Environments
Jun 10, 2013
As tumors grow, their centers are squeezed of oxygen. And so tumors must flip specific genetic switches to survive in these hypoxic environments. A series of studies funded to do only basic science and published in the journal Cell report the serendipitous discovery of a druggable target necessary for the survival of tumors in these low-oxygen environments... Read More
Nine Hallmarks Of Aging
Jun 10, 2013
For some species, living twice as long in good health depends on no more than a few genes. When this fact was revealed by studies on worms three decades ago, it ushered in a golden age of ageing studies that has delivered numerous results, but also sown some confusion... Read More
Health Challenges For Cancer Survivors Posed By Rural Living
Jun 10, 2013
Cancer survivors who live in rural areas aren't as healthy as their urban counterparts, according to new research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Kathryn E. Weaver, Ph.D... Read More
How A Genetic Duplication That Occurred Millions Of Years Ago Encouraged The Evolution Of The ASF1b Gene, Involved In Cancer Development
Jun 10, 2013
How and when evolution generates diversity or gives form to proteins, living beings' functional building blocks, are essential questions that still surround the theory of evolution. In humans, the majority of genes have emerged via genetic duplication, a strategy in which a gene generates two identical copies that can evolve to generate different proteins... Read More
Compound Killed Melanoma Cells And Stopped Them From Metastasizing In Mouse Model
Jun 08, 2013
Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. Hit number one destroys cells in the main tumor, and the second hit blocks the spread of the cancer to other sites in the body, according to their report in the journal ACS Chemical Biology... Read More
Matrix-Bio Options Metabolite Biomarker Technology From Purdue University To Evaluate Opportunities For New Cancer Diagnostic Tests
Jun 07, 2013
Matrix-Bio Inc., a diagnostics company that uses metabolite profiling to detect cancer and other diseases, has signed an exclusive agreement with the Purdue Research Foundation optioning metabolite biomarker technology and eight patent applications to evaluate the commercial potential of cancer diagnostics tests based on the technologies... Read More
More Cancer Specialist Nurses To Improve Hospital Care
Jun 07, 2013
Patients battling cancer have a better experience of care at hospitals that employ more cancer specialist nurses. Research from the University of Southampton, shows that patients of better staffed hospitals are more likely to report being given more emotional support by nurses who work well together on wards... Read More
Never-Before-Used Targeted Treatment For Atypical Chronic Neutrophilic Leukemia
Jun 07, 2013
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes genetic testing of a rare blood cancer called atypical chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL) that revealed a new mutation present in most patients with the disease. The mutation also serves as an Achilles heel, allowing doctors at the University of Colorado Cancer Center to prescribe a never-before-used, targeted treatment... Read More
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