New cancer gene found May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Researchers at the OU Cancer Institute have identified a new gene that causes cancer. The ground-breaking research appears in Nature’s cancer journal Oncogene. | |
Researchers find way to make tumor cells easier to destroy May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Tumors have a unique vulnerability that can be exploited to make them more sensitive to heat and radiation, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report. | |
 Switching on cancer killer gene May 08, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Scottish scientists have discovered how to control a major anti-tumour gene that could lead to more effective chemotherapy. According to a report in the Cancer Cell Journal, research conducted by the ... | |
Previously unseen switch regulates breast cancer response to estrogen May 08, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A tiny modification called methylation on estrogen receptors prolongs the life of these growth-driving molecules in breast cancer cells, according to research by scientists at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute. ... | |
Skin flaps deliver cancer-fighting therapy, ASPS study reveals May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Using gene therapy, plastic surgeons have delivered cancer fighting proteins through skin flaps placed on cancerous tumors on rats with a 79 percent reduction in tumor volume, according to a study in the May issue of Plastic ... | |
Breast cancer tumors grow faster in younger women May 08, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A new approach to estimating tumour growth based on breast screening results from almost 400,000 women is published today BioMed Central’s open access journal, Breast Cancer Research. This new model can also estimate ... | |
Scientists identify interacting proteins key to melanoma development, treatment May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers have discovered how a mole develops into melanoma by showing the interaction of two key proteins involved in 60-70 percent of tumors. The Penn State scientists also demonstrate that therapeutic targeting of these ... | |
Scientists identify 'gatekeepers' of breast cancer transition to invasive disease May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Scientists have made a significant discovery that clarifies a previously poorly understood key event in the progression of breast cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Cancer Cell, ... | |
Study shows gene variations may predict risk of breast cancer in women May 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
According to a recent study, led by Virginia Kaklamani, MD, an oncologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and assistant professor of medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, variations of the adiponectin ... | |
6-month follow-up diagnostic mammograms recommended for women with probably benign lesions May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Radiologists can, with confidence, recommend a six-month follow-up diagnostic mammogram rather than an immediate biopsy for patients with “probably benign” breast lesions, a new study emphasizes. | |
Scientists provide explanation for how cancer spreads April 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Metastasis, the spread of cancer throughout the body, can be explained by the fusion of a cancer cell with a white blood cell in the original tumor, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers, who say that this single ... | |
New findings may help prevent stomach cancer May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Prompt treatment of a microbe that causes stomach ulcers and other ailments can reverse damage to the lining of the stomach and ultimately prevent one of the most lethal forms of cancer from developing there, MIT researchers ... | |
Combined physical and genetic map finds cancer's 'ignition key' May 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Whole-organ maps that superimpose genetic information over the terrain of cancerous bladders chart the molecular journey from normal cell to invasive cancer, an international research team led by scientists at The University ... | |
Cancer cells spread by releasing 'bubbles' April 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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A new fundamental mechanism of how tumour cells communicate has just been discovered by the team of Dr. Janusz Rak at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) in collaboration with Dr Guha from ... | |
Researchers find gene location that gives rise to neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Using advanced gene-hunting technology, an international team of researchers has for the first time identified a chromosome region that is the source of genetic events that give rise to neuroblastoma, an often fatal childhood ... | |
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