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Tumor Suppressor Genes Vital To Regulating Blood Precursor Cells In Fruit Flies
Sep 07, 2012
UCLA stem cell scientists have shown that two common tumor suppressor genes, TSC and PTEN, are vital to regulating the stem cell-like precursor cells that create the blood supply in Drosophila, the common fruit fly. The researchers examined a signaling pathway called TOR that the cells use to gauge nutrition levels and stress, said study senior author Dr. Julian A... Read More
Possible New Therapy For The Treatment Of A Common Blood Cancer
Sep 07, 2012
Research from Karolinska Institutet shows that sorafenib, a drug used for advanced cancer of the kidneys and liver, could also be effective against multiple myeloma. The disease is one of the more common forms of blood cancer and is generally incurable... Read More
Possible New Therapy For The Treatment Of A Common Blood Cancer
Sep 07, 2012
Research from Karolinska Institutet shows that sorafenib, a drug used for advanced cancer of the kidneys and liver, could also be effective against multiple myeloma. The disease is one of the more common forms of blood cancer and is generally incurable... Read More
Popular Kids Smoke More
Sep 06, 2012
A new study shows heart disease, lung cancer, and emphysema may be more prevalent in popular youths. The University of California and the University of Texas collaborated on a study which found that popular students in seven different California high schools were more likely to smoke cigarettes than unpopular students... Read More
PTSD Common In Children With Cancer
Sep 06, 2012
Infants and toddlers can develop PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) upon receiving a cancer diagnosis or when they undergo taxing treatment with surgery, chemotherapy, or radiotherapy, scientists from the University of Zurich and the University Children's Hospital Zurich reported in Psycho-Oncology... Read More
Married Lung Cancer Patients Have A Better Chance Of Survival
Sep 06, 2012
According to a study carried out by experts at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center in Baltimore, which will be presented at the 2012 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology, locally advanced lung cancer patients who are married are more likely to survive than those who are single... Read More
Ovarian Cancer Cells Hijack Surrounding Tissues To Enhance Tumor Growth
Sep 06, 2012
Tumor growth is dependent on interactions between cancer cells and adjacent normal tissue, or stroma. Stromal cells can stimulate the growth of tumor cells; however it is unclear if tumor cells can influence the stroma... Read More
A One-Two Punch By The Immune System Knocks Out Cancer Cells
Sep 06, 2012
An emerging class of therapies called "checkpoint blockade" enhance the immune system's ability to attack cancer cells by interfering with the immunological checkpoints that slow or stop immune cell activation and proliferation in the presence of tumors. Cytotoxic T lymophocyte antigen-A (CTLA) receptor is a protein that acts like an "off switch" on certain immune cells... Read More
Cancer Cells Co-Opt A Stress Response Protein
Sep 06, 2012
Malignant nerve peripheral sheath tumors are a form of cancer in the connective tissue surrounding nerve cells that is driven by the loss of the tumor suppressor gene NF1... Read More
Ovarian Cancer Cells Hijack Surrounding Tissues To Enhance Tumor Growth
Sep 06, 2012
Tumor growth is dependent on interactions between cancer cells and adjacent normal tissue, or stroma. Stromal cells can stimulate the growth of tumor cells; however it is unclear if tumor cells can influence the stroma... Read More
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