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Improvement In Quality Of End-Of-Life Care Offered By The Liverpool Care Pathway
May 13, 2013
Death in hospital remains very common for cancer patients in developed countries. Although hospital surveys show that death was highly expected, patients dying in hospital have a high probability of unrelieved and poorly treated physical suffering, and emotional, spiritual and social distress... Read More
Cancer-Suppressing Protein Found To 'Multitask'
May 13, 2013
The understanding of how a powerful protein called p53 protects against cancer development has been upended by a discovery by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers. More than half of human cancers carry defects in the gene for p53, and almost all other cancers, with a normal p53 gene, carry other defects that somehow impair the function of the p53 protein... Read More
How Precise Chemical Modifications Turn Genes On And Off During Early Development -- And How Those Mechanisms Are Disrupted In Cancer
May 13, 2013
A large, multi-institutional research team involved in the NIH Epigenome Roadmap Project has published a sweeping analysis in the current issue of the journal Cell on how genes are turned on and off to direct early human development... Read More
Identifying The Social Needs Of Young People With Cancer
May 13, 2013
Research conducted by Xiao-Cheng Wu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Louisiana Tumor Registry at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, and colleagues, reports adolescents and young adults with cancer may be at higher risk for social isolation and that a substantial proportion of them have unmet social needs that could adversely affect their health... Read More
Egg Genome Is Reprogrammed To Match Sperm's With Or Without A Paternal Genome
May 13, 2013
Researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have discovered that while the genes provided by the father arrive at fertilization pre-programmed to the state needed by the embryo, the genes provided by the mother are in a different state and must be reprogrammed to match. The findings have important implications for both developmental biology and cancer biology... Read More
Gene-Silencing Activity Discovery Could Lead To Treatment For Viral Infections, Cancers And Other Diseases
May 13, 2013
A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has found how to boost or inhibit a gene-silencing mechanism that normally serves as a major controller of cells' activities. The discovery could lead to a powerful new class of drugs against viral infections, cancers and other diseases... Read More
How Nerve Wiring Self-Destructs Has Relevance To Diseases Of Peripheral And Central Nervous Systems
May 13, 2013
Many medical issues affect nerves, from injuries in car accidents and side effects of chemotherapy to glaucoma and multiple sclerosis. The common theme in these scenarios is destruction of nerve axons, the long wires that transmit signals to other parts of the body, allowing movement, sight and sense of touch, among other vital functions... Read More
A Patient's Right To Control Genomic Health Information
May 13, 2013
Doctors should not have the right or responsibility to force-feed their patients with genomic information about their future health risks, according to bioethicists writing in Trends in Biotechnology, a Cell Press publication... Read More
Gene Expression Profiling In Breast Cancer
May 13, 2013
Predicting outcomes for cancer patients based on tumor-immune system interactions is an emerging clinical approach, and new research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is advancing the field when it comes to the most deadly types of breast cancer... Read More
Cardiac Device Surgery Without Interruption Of Warfarin Led To 80 Percent Reduction In Development Of A Significant Hematoma
May 13, 2013
A new Canadian study shows that operating without interrupting warfarin treatment at the time of cardiac device surgery is safe and markedly reduces the incidence of clinically significant hematomas compared to the current standard of care... Read More
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