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The Secrets Of Tumor Growth
Jan 28, 2013
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Healthy Ageing have identified a compound that blocks the expression of a protein without which certain tumours cannot grow. This compound has the potential as an anticancer agent according to the research published in the journal CHBIOL: Chemistry and Biology this week... Read More
A Link Between Tissue Scarring And Cancer Metastasis
Jan 28, 2013
What to fear most if faced by a cancer diagnosis is the spread of the cancer to other parts of the body. This process called metastasis accounts for over 90% of cancer patient deaths and therefore is a strong focus for cancer researchers... Read More
Better Survival Rates Seen With Lumpectomy Compared With Mastectomy For Early Breast Cancer
Jan 28, 2013
A new analysis has found that lumpectomy plus radiation for early breast cancer may provide patients with a better chance of survival than mastectomy. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results provide confidence in the efficacy of breast-conserving treatments even among patients with aggressive, early disease... Read More
Multiple Myeloma Patients May Benefit From New Research
Jan 27, 2013
A study led by Robert G. Hawley, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of anatomy and regenerative biology at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), may help predict which patients with multiple myeloma will respond better to certain treatments... Read More
Hospitals More Likely To Be Able To Fight Infections When They Plan For Bacteria In Cancer Patients
Jan 27, 2013
What cancerous conditions lead to what kinds of bacterial infections? If doctors knew, they could predict which patients would likely benefit from pre-treatment with certain kinds of antibiotics. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in this month's issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases shows the answer: E... Read More
SNPs Associated With Breast Cancer Risk Alter Binding Affinity For Pioneer Factor FOXA1
Jan 27, 2013
Dartmouth scientists showed that more than half of all the SNPs associated with breast cancer risk are located in distant regions and bound by FOXA1, a protein required for estrogen receptor-α (ER) function according to a paper published in the journal Nature Genetics... Read More
Hospitals More Likely To Be Able To Fight Infections When They Plan For Bacteria In Cancer Patients
Jan 27, 2013
What cancerous conditions lead to what kinds of bacterial infections? If doctors knew, they could predict which patients would likely benefit from pre-treatment with certain kinds of antibiotics. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in this month's issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases shows the answer: E... Read More
Consistent Personal Epigenetic 'Signatures' Discovered In Prostate Cancer Patients' Metastases
Jan 26, 2013
In a genome-wide analysis of 13 metastatic prostate cancers, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found consistent epigenetic "signatures" across all metastatic tumors in each patient... Read More
Association Between Blood Calcium And Ovarian Cancer Could Lead To Diagnostic Test
Jan 26, 2013
A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is the first to report that high blood calcium levels might predict ovarian cancer, the most fatal of the gynecologic cancers. Lead author Gary G. Schwartz, Ph.D., a cancer epidemiologist at Wake Forest Baptist, and colleague, Halcyon G. Skinner, Ph.D... Read More
Mice With Reduced Caloric Intake Accumulate Longer Telomeres, Reduce Their Incidence Of Cancer, And Are In Better Health
Jan 26, 2013
One of the indicators of a cell's health is the state of its DNA and containers - the chromosomes - so when these fuse together or suffer anomalies, they can become the source of illnesses like cancer and/or ageing processes... Read More
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